Injuries

school, community center, or place of worship and must perform a broad range of communication practices throughout the day to connect with others in order to form relationships. When those communication practices breakdown due to a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), social communication impairments often occur in conversational discourse (Snow, Douglas, & Ponsford, 1998). This may have an adverse effect on important interpersonal relationships (Driscol et al., 2011), especially during the adolescence…

A traumatic brain injury is a sudden injury to the head causing damage to the brain. It can be a closed head injury or a penetrating one. It can affect one area of the brain or more than one area. When there is a penetration, the skull will be pierced and a piece of the bone from the skull may enter the brain tissue. With a closed head injury, there is no break in the skull. A skull fracture is when the skull cracks and broken pieces of bone cut into the brain. The different types of traumatic…

When a person suffers an injury as the result of an accident, there are many things to consider and the victim has to make a number of important decisions. For instance, if the injury is serious, medical bills can quickly accumulate and there is also the issue of figuring out what to do about lost wages, long term treatment and recovery, pain and suffering, and loss of future income if the injury turns out to be permanent. In addition, often serious physical injuries can result in emotional…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with approximately 2 million reported TBI events in the US annually. The pathology of TBI is a highly complex process with both initial mechanical injury and delayed mechanisms. Primary injuries directly damage the neurons, axons, dendrites, glia and blood vessels in a focal, multifocal, or diffuse pattern. Primary injuries initiate a secondary, dynamic series of complex cellular, inflammatory, mitochondrial,…

people suffer some degree of head injury every year in the United States alone.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1.7 million people in the United States have a traumatic brain injury each year. Brain injury can be defined as something that isn’t hereditary, degenerative, or present at birth that causes damage to the brain. The most common types of brain injury are traumatic brain injury, concussion, and stroke. Brain injuries cause “changes in metabolism and…

Injuries may happen at one time, when at work or even at home. Injuries can be devastating and may result in permanent impairment thus loss of work or even worse death. It then becomes necessary to seek the counsel of lawyers on how to go about seeking compensation. Individuals who may have received personal injuries as a result of car accidents, medical malpractice or even accidents at work are entitled to some form of compensation so as to recover any damages incurred. One may settle for…

involved in an auto accident while texting and driving. Due to the accident, John suffered a traumatic brain injury commonly referred to as TBI. A traumatic brain injury is caused by an external blow or penetrating force to the head. It is a complex, acquired injury in which the symptoms and disabilities vary from individual to individual (Traumatic Brain Injury, 2017). It is also an injury like no other. In one moment, the person can be completely normal and next thing you know, life has…

In the early 1900s, football was a brutal sport that resulted in serious or life threatening injuries. There were no football pads or helmets to protect the players from these injuries. Football was mainly a college sport at this time. Due to the concern of the young players, a magazine in 1904 reported that were 18 deaths and 159 serious injuries throughout different prep schools. Football season even got the name "death harvest". Considering most of the deaths were young college students…

Due to the intensity of the contact in both football and boxing, injuries pose a major threat to the brain in the form of both short-term and long-term effects. A few of the effects include concussions, altered skills and functions, loss of memory, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and potentially death. Brain injuries can affect each part of the body in different ways for each individual. At only thirteen years old, Zack Lystedt walked on the football field just like any other game, but what…

Introduction to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when there is a mechanical force that has been applied to the head as it affects the normal functioning of the brain. When looking at what mechanical force is, it call be seen in two ways. The first way comes from a ‘blow to the head’ ‘rapid acceleration-deceleration event’ (Struchen & Clark, 2007). An example of this would be from a car accident. The human brain can become injured with or…