Focal and diffuse brain injury

Service Provided Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI) is a nonprofit organization that create and spread awareness of brain injury throughout Michigan. The focus of BIAMI is to help improve the lives of individuals affected by brain injury and to minimize the incidence and effect of brain injury through education, advocacy, support, treatment services and research (Brain Injury Association of Michigan, 2015). Services offered include support groups throughout the state; educational…

that may occur, or they do not even think the sport is as dangerous as most think. Therefore, brain injuries have become a troubling topic of discussion in the NFL today. Football players use their helmets as weapons for a playing advantage on the football field. Due to players using their helmets as a playing advantage, helmet-to-helmet hits are becoming more common, and resulting in more brain injuries. If better safety precautions are not taken, then the sport will become more life…

Concussions, when you hear this word you start to think of your brain and some sort of physical activity. Concussions if not taken seriously can be fatal. CTE stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. “CTE is a progressive brain disease believed to be caused by repetitive trauma to the brain” (“Boogaard” 2). CTE was first called “punch-drunk” and it was founded in boxing. It is important to know that concussions are the highest occurring injury in all of sports. “The CDC estimates reveal that…

Concept Preventing falls of all patients is the first priority of acute rehab unit. Stroke and traumatic brain injury patients are at higher risk due to cognitive impairment and weakness on the affected side after the stroke and fall. Patients forget their limitation of mobility and try to move independently without realizing their weakness after the stroke and ends up in falling and suffer more injury. Patients’ safety is the highest priority. Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal…

more serious injuries might you ask? A big part of the increase of harsh injuries is the fact that most football players, even in high school, practice year…

denying that it is a high-impact and physically dangerous sport that can lead to many serious injuries. There is one such contact sport injury that can be more severe than many other sports-related injuries. What is the culprit? It is a concussion. Concussions are usually caused by a hard hit to the head that causes the brain to shake inside of the skull. A concussion can be a very serious brain injury that can possibly keep a player out of the game for weeks. Even more traumatic and career…

similarities than one would think. Chronic injuries and an early life expectancy are some of the implications that don 't make it to the contract. Coal miners lives are cut short from precautions of the job, like the constant inhalation of coal dust usually resulting in respiratory problems later on in life. Football players have a mirroring situation except their disease is one that attacks their brain. CTE or Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a disease of the brain which causes the build up…

Felt by All: Injuries: Growing up, I was very involved with sports, just like the many other people. As most of you already know from experience alone, playing certain sports like football, and soccer tend to result in various injuries, ranging from bruises, to nagging aches, and pulled ligaments. Occasionally you might have suffered a more severe injury like tearing ligaments, breaking bones, or becoming severely concussed from a blow to the head. Unfortunately, the latter of injuries mentioned…

The controversy of concussions has been up in the news with past NFL players coming out with serious brain trauma.“ A confluence of early player retirements in the early 1990s led then-Commissioner of the NFL Paul Tagliabue to form the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee in 1994.”(Kahn). With the rise in head trauma from previous players has caused the NFL to make changes in their player safety precautions. The NFL is worried…

taking Psychology, I would have classified myself as a biology person. So after years of learning how vital and how delicate the brain was, the fact Gage could survive after his accident was absolutely extraordinary. I soon became introspective after learning about his personality change. To what extent, for each of us, is our personality simply determined by our brain structure? Though logically I know that everything that defines us to some extent comes from…