Focal and diffuse brain injury

Truth”. Studies state “377,000 out of the million young athletes playing football at 15,000 high schools in America were injured. 60,000 suffered major injuries, 15,000 will need surgery, and two dozen will suffer fatal injuries” (Dabcheck). Although, these numbers were collected in 1989, the sport of football…

Traumatic Brain Injuries in athletes and CTE, Chapter 2 Brain injuries can be as mild as a concussion, and as severe as a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. A traumatic brain injury is diagnosed when a person’s normal brain function has been negatively altered after receiving a forceful trauma to the head (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Although it is not something we often think about, our brains are highly vulnerable to injury (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Fortunately most…

simply as a tight rubber band ball of abnormal blood vessels with weak walls. These can be located anywhere in the body. Arteries carry blood containing oxygen from the heart to the brain. An AVM bypasses normal brain tissue and directs blood from the arteries to the veins without a capillary bed in between. Brain AVM’s occur in less than one percent of the population (per 100,000 people) and are more common in males than females. Being congenital, they normally go unknown until they…

behavior due to a head injury that resulted in brain damage. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) usually occurs because of a severe sports injury or car accident. TBI have been known to cause cognitive, behavioral, whole body, mood, eyes, gastrointestinal, speech, and…

approximately 1.7 million individuals sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year (CDC, 2006). Of those 1.7 million, approximately 700,000 are adolescents, making them the age group most prone to experiencing a TBI (Ettel, Glang, Todis, & Davies, 2016). A TBI occurs when traumatic force causes damage to the brain whether it occur from the head hitting an external object, or when an object hits the head forcefully and potentially punctures brain tissue (NIH, 2016). Effects of a TBI can occur…

Nowinski didn 't stop there; he also helped discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a structural brain disease where cells are damaged and eventually killed in the brain, in Pittsburg Steeler Justin Strzelcyz with the help of Dr. Bennett Omalu. He wrote and published the book the documentary is based on, Head Games that described the story of Mike Webster and other athletes. The book…

to become more active through recreational activities and sports. Through the years, the intensity and aggression within sports have increased, leading to more recreational and sports related injuries. During the last ten years, emergency department visits for concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries in children and adolescents have increased (Graham et al., 2013). This increase has led to approximately 144,000 or more visits, made by children and adolescents, to the emergency department…

The 2004 movie 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy about a woman named Lucy who wakes up every morning believing it is October 13, her father’s birthday. After a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident, Lucy suffers from a fictional amnesia called Goldfield’s Syndrome. Although there are elements of truth in Lucy’s amnesia, her symptoms are ultimately a poor depiction of amnesia and the movie contains many factual inaccuracies about memory. This paper will analyze the cause,…

that puts players at risk to high-end injuries and needs to be banned due to it being such a dangerous sport. A helmet-to-helmet collision is when two players make head-to-head contact with a high amount of force. There are a number of helmet-to-helmet collisions resulting in head injuries that results in having a concussion that leads to brain damage, cognitive impairment, or even death. As of the Researchers at the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury, experts found that players…

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy In order to discuss Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and the potential risks related to the disease one must first understand what CTE is. CTE is a degenerative disease of the brain caused by repetitive head trauma (What is CTE?, 2016). Athletes that participate in contact sports such as football, hockey, rugby, and even soccer are most at risk due the nature of their sports. Former participants of all these sports have been diagnosed with CTE…