Focal and diffuse brain injury

Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that slowly progresses as a person ages. Alzheimer’s disease effects brain memory and also brain function. This happens because the brain cells slowly begin to die off. Normally when our brain cells die off, new ones take their place. For Alzheimer’s patients this is not the case. The dead cells are never replaced by new ones. This is what causes the memory loss and the loss of brain function. Most of the time Alzheimer’s patients will remember long past memories…

serious brain damage, bodily injuries, and death. Football is a one of the most popular sports in the United states, and leads all other sports in the amount of injuries sustained in young people. In the article “Mike Webster’s autopsy ‘one of the most significant moments in the history of sports’” by Tyler Drenon, Webster’s brain was described as one of “boxers, very old people with Alzheimer’s disease, or someone who had suffered a severe head wound.” This was because Webster had a brain…

Throughout the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) section of our course, we learned that confabulation, the generation of false memories pronounced with strong feelings of rightness without the intention to deceive, is a symptom that can occur post brain injury. Confabulation as a symptom of brain injury has become a fascinating aspect to me in a couple different ways. For one, confabulation is different than lying in that the individual believes to the full extent that what they are saying is true,…

Introduction Brain injuries where something my parents worried about when I was growing because I played numerous physical sports; I didn’t worry about the repercussions of high impact sports or what could have happened. Now as a professional educator I worry about my student’s educational ability due to a brain injury they may acquire or may have been born with. Why is a brain injury so important for educators to recognize? What happens to that child in the classroom after sustaining a brain…

How would you feel if you were unable to effectively communicate your feelings and emotions? Would you become frustrated, depressed, or even angry? Alzheimer’s disease affects numerous people, in fact one in ten people age 65 or older has Alzheimer’s dementia. Alzheimer’s causes memory loss and gradually diminishes a person’s ability to communicate; therefore, learning how to effectively communicate with those who have Alzheimer’s is very important. Good communication with an Alzheimer’s patient…

Research Report I am currently studying sports related concussions, specifically focusing on the effects of these injuries and what is currently being done to prevent them. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury usually caused by a blow to the head. In sports today concussions are a very hot topic, as a sports enthusiast, I love to watch anything sports related even if it’s just sports news like ESPN for example. ESPN and other new stations have been covering sport related concussions for…

collateral networks developing adjacent to the stenotic vessels. This disease causes the carotid artery in the skull becomes blocked or narrowed. This will cause the blood flow to your brain to become greatly reduced. Tiny blood vessels then open up at the base of the brain and attempt to supply the brain with blood. This outcome is presented in the image above and you can clearly see how the term a “puff of smoke” was coined. The tiny clusters of blood vessels are unable to properly…

If I had a friend or family member who suffered from a concussion, but were not well informed, I would use this article to justify the seriousness of concussions. To begin with, teenagers are the most to suffer concussions due to sports. Every year more than one million children and teenagers in the united states suffer a concussion. Not only do athletes suffer from concussions, a concussion can result from a car crash, a fall, or an assault. It is estimated that between 1.1 million and 1.9…

The submitted records have been reviewed. The member is an adult male with a birth date of 01/18/1994. He has a diagnosis of vision loss secondary to concussion. His treating provider, Jeffrey Becker, O.D., recommended occupational therapy/vision therapy from 10/28/2015 forward. The carrier has denied coverage of occupational therapy/vision therapy from 10/28/2015 forward as experimental or investigational and not medically necessary. There is a letter from the carrier to the member dated…

decades, injury trends in professional football has transformed drastically, with the hamstring muscle group now identified as the most frequently injured structure, accounting for more time lost than other muscle groups (Walden et al., 2005). Indeed, the Football Association Audit of Injuries, found that over two seasons, hamstring strain injuries, proved to be the most prevalent injury, with 12% of all injuries in the English Premier League (Woods et al., 2004). Hamstring strain injuries…