Focal and diffuse brain injury

Former NFLers Call for End to Tackle Football for Kids Tackle football, to be or not to be? That is the question everyone is asking after more and more football players are getting diagnosed with CTE. CTE is a brain disease that kills brain cells. Neuroscientists once thought that the disease is caused by concussions. They now know that that is not the case. CTE is caused by repeated hits to the body. CTE can majorly change your life. From the football Hall of Fame, Nick Buoniconti says that “I…

Concussions are one of the worst injuries a person can sustain because they affect one of the most vital parts of the body; the brain. Marcos A. Abreu, Wirt Edwards, and Brandon D. Spradley, doctoral student and United States Sports Academy professors, define a concussion in their article “The War Against Concussions” as “a traumatically induced transient disturbance of brain function” (Abreu, Edwards, and Spradley, 2). The issue with concussions is largely about knowing the signs and symptoms,…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called a “signature injury” in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. As of the first quarter of 2012, the total incidence of TBI in U.S. military personnel since 2000 is 244,217 with 76.8% of these incidents concussive or ‘mild’ TBI. Very large numbers of civilians, up to 1.5 million people per year, in the United States also have traumatic brain injuries caused by car accidents, falls, sports-related injuries, or assault. Traumatic brain injury can cause…

requires children of any sports to have to take a concussion test. There are plenty of studies that show that if we made this a law or even had it required at schools, then there would be a lot more understandings of what is actually happening to our brains and a lot more ways to prevent it. Textual evidence & reasoning to support claim statement One article, “Concussion program for high school athletes works.”, States that “Baseline testing is a combination of memory, response time, attention…

sports like the National Hockey League or maybe even rugby. A concussion is a head injury that includes dizziness, having trouble balancing, headache, ears ringing, nausea, sensitivity towards noise and light. Concussions should be taken very seriously because of how bad they can affect players. But unfortunately, concussions…

Weather or not people should play football is a question asked across the nation. From September to January football provides great entertainment to millions world wide but with huge recent jumps in technology there is a growing concern with head injuries causing severe permanent damage. With recent research CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy).NOT DONE Completely People around the United States connect football with very bad medical outcomes. Everyday modern technology is changing and…

interrupted blood supply to the brain therefore causing death of brain cells as a result of inadequate oxygen and nutrient supply. Steves condition may have possibly resulted due to adhere to warfarin treatment therefore causing artery blockage (ischemic stroke). This type of stroke results when arteries supplying blood to the brain are blocked or narrowed causing reduced blood flow. This is as a result of thrombus formation in the arteries that supply blood to the brain due to fatty deposit…

Traumatic Brain Injury Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI) can happen to anyone. It occurs from a blow or blunt force trauma to the head or brain. The severity of the injury depends on the amount of force and trauma that occurs during the accident. It can range from mild to severe with physical abilities and symptoms varying from each patient. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of disability and death in children and adolescents in the U.S. (“Brain Injury in Children-BIAA,” 2015).”…

It is plausible that a person’s menstrual cycle may have a correlation with concussions; this correlation is likely because progesterone is a neuroprotective drug that is produced cyclically. Based on progesterone concentration in a person’s body, physicians believe they can predict the course of a person’s concussion. In 2014, Wunderle, Hoeger, Wasserman, and Bazarian published a paper where they try to see if a person’s menstrual phase can predict the outcome of a mTBI. Wunderle, Hoeger,…

during World War I and World War II. It was used when soldiers were in the hospital and the nurses needed to distract the soldiers from their traumatic injuries. Soldiers would engage in activities that…