Head injury

Is your brain moving in ways it shouldn’t be? Well if it is moving too much you may have a concussion. A concussion is traumatic head injury. You usually get a concussion when you receive a blow to the head. You can receive a concussion in any sport but the most popular sport to receive one in is in football. Concussion cause the most fatalities in football. Throughout this essay you will learn many new things like symptoms, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), some famous people that has had…

really serious injury to the brain and have a serious effect. All of these symptoms can make daily life more difficult, both in personal relationships and at work or school. When playing a sports you should know the effects that are Headache/Dizziness, Confusion, Brain Damage. A Headache can happen when you are dealing with a concussion. When you are playing a sport and you bump your head you are most likely to have a concussion. Headache is terrible feeling of pressure in the head. (Mayo…

types of injuries that can lead to Traumatic Brain Injury. There are two different types of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). One type of a TBI is called an open head injury. An open head injury is caused when the skull is punctured. Not all of open head injuries are fatal. When they are not fatal, then they usually cause a person to lose behavioral or sensory functions. These function loss is in the parts controlled by the area of the brain that is injured. The other type of brain injury is…

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…

Concussion is an injury associated with sports and is most often identified with football, ice hockey, boxing and martial arts. There is different levels of concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI), including mild, moderate, and severe. Large numbers of athletes participate in these sports; youth, high school, collegiate, professional. Concussion is an injury that results from a wide variety of mechanisms and ages, levels ranging from a simple daze to the inability of doing daily activities.…

“Unlike a broken ankle or other injuries, you can feel with your hands, or see on an X-Ray, a concussion is a disruption of how the brain works” -USA Football. Concussions are and can be a serious thing. They have become a great problem in the sports world. They can show themselves in many ways. Some can be very small you won’t even know that it's there, but some can be so bad that they are fatal. Concussions are serious and more needs to be done including: considering, learning how they happen…

the head can cause many problems that last for a short period of time, a whole lifetime, or could even lead to death. They can also cause emotional problems or memory issues. There is a lack of laws and education that prevents players from going back out on the field, and making their injuries worse. Football is a dangerous sport that is harmful to the players. Many injuries such as concussions can take a long time to recover from. Many of the football players that experience head injuries,…

can get a bad head injury called a concussion. Basketball injuries are not better basketball injuries are mainly in your leg like your Anterior cruciate ligament(ACL)(“Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia”), Baseball injuries are not the greatest injury a baseball can be thrown at 87 mile per hour or 90(MPH) to your face baseball injuries are terrible Doctors are trying hard to prevent all of these injuries. ACL is one of many common injuries in sports,…

Skating injuries have increased with the rise in popularity of the sport and the injury pattern can be expected to have changed with the development of both skateboard tricks and the materials used for skateboarding construction (Skateboarding injuries of today, 2001; L Forsman, A Eriksson) Longboard and skateboard injuries by Glenn keays and Alex Dumas (2014) compare the types and causes of longboarding related injuries to those associated with skateboarding. In this…

Unfortunately, head injuries are very common with children, accounting for approximately one hundred thousand hospitalizations annually. Modes of injury include motor vehicle accidents, bicycle accidents, falls, sporting injuries, and child abuse. Certain aspects of brain injury are unique to children. For example, it is more difficult to determine the measure the loss of brain function in a child. In adults there are prior academic records, I.Q. scores, and job histories to rely on. At one time…