Traumatic Brain Injury Paper

Being home and at school are the primary locations for students and adolescents and where they spend the most time of their day. When a student is diagnosed with a TBI, it can dramatically affect their school performance. After a student experiences a TBI, school is one one of the many stepping stones where recovery and development is offered and can be used as an intervention. For schools to be able to offer the appropriate educational measures adjusted for the needs of the student, the appropriate support and recovery process for the student, schools having the appropriate documentation and knowledge about the student’s injury.

Traumatic brain injury occurs when a person is hit in the head with a blunt force. This significant force to the head can happen playing recreational sports, on the playground, being in a car or motorcycle accident, falling down at home and your head impacting something, a blast or explosion. Traumatic brain injuries are also the leading cause of fatality rate and disability, especially in children, young adults and elderly. TBI is a devastating condition that affects millions of people nationwide, because it can affect the nervous system permanently, it also messes with the neurological, musculoskeletal, cognitive and much more. TBI force a family to deal with not just the physical disability, with the behavioral and emotional roller

The TASIT is designed to assess disorders in social cognition using real-life stimuli in the form of videoed vignettes of professional actors engaged in conversation. It was initially developed with people with traumatic brain injury (McDonald, Flanagan et al. 2003) but has also been used in adolescents (McDonald, Fisher et al. 2015) and older people (Burdon, Dipper et al. 2016), people with different types of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease (Henry, Ruffman et al. 2008) and frontotemporal dementia (Kipps, Nestor et al. 2009, Rankin, Salazar et al. 2009). The TASIT-R includes three parts assessing basic emotion recognition through to the ability to grasp aspects of communication. There are two alternate forms for the entire test and Form A was used for this study.

The American Academy of Neurology defines concussion as any trauma-induced alteration in mental status that may or may not include loss of consciousness (1997). Concussion is one of the predominant injuries within the military, with a prevalence of around 15 percent (MacGregor et al., 2010). Military personnel who have sustained a concussion are often returned to full status duty shortly after the injury-causing event (Gondusky & Reiter, 2005). In order to determine whether this is an appropriate course of action, it is imperative to be able to measure the lasting effects of concussion on neuropsychological functioning.

Concussion, also known as minor head trauma or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is the most common type of traumatic brain injury. It is typically defined as a head injury with a temporary loss of brain function. Symptoms include a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms, which may not be recognized if subtle. A variety of signs accompany concussion including headache, feeling in a fog, and emotional changeability. In general, the signs can be categorized into physical signs (such as loss of consciousness or amnesia), behavioral changes (such as irritability), cognitive impairment (such as slowed reaction times), and sleep disturbances.[1] Fewer than 10% of sports-related concussions among children are associated with loss of consciousness.[2]

In today’s society, many problems and questions exist. The only way to solve these problems and questions is to study them. One problem that has been constantly studied, but still has no clear solution is concussion injuries. The issue of concussion injuries has many questions not answered. These questions include methods of treatment and the long term effects of the injury. Suffering first hand from a concussion, I understand the toll it has on someone. However, I’ve been to many doctors, and not one of them had the same answer to how to treat a concussion. This is due to not having another information. Treatment is one of the many topics on concussions that has been heavily debated in the medical field and rightfully so. I’ve heard

Imagine one day your are totally isolated from your friends and even some of your family for several months. The sight of light brings instant pain to your head and you begin to go through life with a constant migraine and no way to help make it go away. The sports and activities you have played your whole life, you can no longer play due to the symptoms of your injury. These are just a few of the repercussions student Lily Winton had after her tubing accident the summer of her Junior year of high school that caused her to have her third and very serious concussion.

The aftermaths of repetitive brain trauma - symptomatic concussions and other blows to the heads of different severity - has been a topic of medical discussion since the 1930’s...Yes the THIRTIES. There have been a lot of scientific research into the effect of concussions and how coaches, personnels and teams should deal with players who have been concussed. In 1933, the NCAA educated all of its schools on the correct procedures of dealing with a concussed player. The NCAA thought that brain trauma weren’t taken seriously as they should be. A procedure in the NCAA medical handbook that stands out is to not allow concussed players to practice until the symptoms don’t show for 48 hours. If the symptoms are present after 48 hours, they should

Every year there is more and more worries about whether or not football should be discontinued because of all the traumatic brain injuries that happen to all different aged kids. “A concussion is defined as a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain” (Concussion). With over “1.6 million to 3.8 million concussions occurring each year”(Concussion) this debate could be a highly one sided decision whether or not to end the game of American Football. “More than one million young athletes play highschool football every year” (Kounang). This is only including high school so these numbers do not include college or the

Traumatic brain injury, also called acquired brain injury or simply head injury, is a result of a sudden blow to the head when an external force is applied causing a disruption of the physiological stability of the brain locally. It can also occur when an object pierces the skull and enters the brain tissue and when elevation in the intracranial pressure occurs and potentially dramatic changes in the blood flow within and to the brain. These changes may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness. Traumatic brain injury is a nondegenerative, noncongential defect in which there may be permanent or temporary impairments to cognition, physical, and psychosocial functions.

Over ten million traumatic brain injuries occur throughout the world each year (Kim et. al.). In the United States, there are 3.8 million traumatic brain injuries annually relating to sports injuries, and approximately 10% of military veterans have suffered a traumatic brain injury with persistent symptoms (Tan, Meehan, et. al.). Although traumatic brain injuries are most common in war or athletic injuries, anyone is at risk for a traumatic brain injury from random traumatic events. Traumatic brain injuries are the leading cause of death in individuals under the age of 24, most of which are caused by car accidents. The annual medical costs of traumatic brain injuries are estimated to be $60.4 billion, including $51.2 billion lost each year

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), or intracranial injury, is a medical diagnosis which refers to closed or penetrative damage to the brain that is caused by an external source. Every year, TBIs affect approximately 150-250 people in a population of 100,000 (León-Carrión, Domínguez-Morales, Martín, & Murillo-Cabezas, 2005). The leading causes of TBI are traffic accidents, work injuries, sports injuries, and extreme violence (León-Carrión et al., 2005). TBI is most often fatal when the cause is an injury due to the use of firearms, a traffic accident, or a long fall (León-Carrión et al., 2005). However, fatality rates and rates of occurrence differ in various countries due to

Traumatic Brain Injury is otherwise known as TBI. “Traumatic brain injury, a form of acquired brain injury, occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue” (NINDS, 2010). There are two main types of TBI, closed head injuries such as head hitting a windshield and penetrating head injuries such as a gunshot wound. As reported by the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation,” The severity of traumatic brain injuries is often assessed using the Glasgow Coma Scale, with scores ranging from 3 to 15. The higher the score,

Overall, this article provided a brief section on how one person can improve his/her day to day work conditions with Traumatic Brain Injuries just by playing video games. Traumatic Brain Injury is one type of injury often occurs by some type of accident or injury. This injury can cause brain damage and person with this injury forgets how to do daily activities. I have read so many articles and heard from so many people that violent video game is the reason for child’s aggressive behavior. The article says, “The study used an action video game and a commercially available video game console as a cognitive rehabilitation tool for Traumatic Brain Injury…” The study actually refers that violent video games can be a medium of improvement for the

The article I found most intriguing was titled “Prospective Memory Functioning in people with and Without Brain Injury.” In this experiment, experimenters conducted a group study and wanted to compare how effective prospective memory was with participants with brain injuries and without brain injuries. There were 36 participants, (26 male and 10 female) with brain injuries and 28 without. The 28 participants were the controlled group and the 36 participants were the experimental group. Some of the conditions that the participants that had brain injuries were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, CVA, Korsakoff's syndrome, cerebral tumor and meningitis. To assess prospective memory researchers used an expanded form of CBPMT (Cambridge Behavior