Post-concussion syndrome

Kevin Guskiewicz a leader in sport related concussion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spoke about the concerns related to sports concussions. Dr. Guskiewicz described concussions as an injury in which the brain is shaken violently within the cranial cavity causing a large number of neurons to distort and the axon to swell. If left untreated or not treated properly, the axon can disintegrate breaking the neurons pathway. A concussion is known as a functional injury since you cannot

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

Don’t leave even a mild head injury; Save your life from the fatal Head Injury: Head injury may occur in any part such as the brain, scalp, skull and the underlying tissues in the head. It is one of the crucial conditions to treat. Head injuries will be either closed or opened. In closed injury, the skull will not have any injury or break. The open injury is one which breaks the skull and penetrates into the brain. The basis of head trauma, head injuries are otherwise called as brain injuries or

The effects of too many concussions and other injuries sustained during contact sports can carry on for the rest of your life if the case is severe enough. Most of the time, however, concussions are very minor and only require a short time period of rest. If enough concussions do occur during an athlete’s life, say the amount a professional football player or hockey player might have endured, chronic traumatic encephalopathy could take place. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy occurs when an athlete

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above, is one of the quickest and effective ways for a concussion to be diagnosed by a person trained to spot these symptoms. Although many of these symptoms, don’t appear or will not be present in an athlete that has sustained a concussion. New ways for diagnosing concussions, have been developed to better identify the injury, making it easier to diagnose and treat an athlete who has sustained a hit to the head or neck area. Many concussions, never have an athlete completely losing consciousness

More than 300,000 sports-related concussions are reported each year in the United States, and although the awareness of concussions and other head injuries is rising, concussions are still very dangerous to young athletes. Some may say that after an athlete receives a concussion, they just have to wait until the obvious, and most common symptoms like dizziness and nausea subside before they can play again; with medication, and constant rest, this may only take 2 weeks, however, depending on the severity

Traumatic brain injuries can vary in their severity. In the case of mild brain injury, full recovery is possible. On the other hand, severe brain injury can be fatal or cause permanent disabilities, the type of which depend on the affected area of the brain. A head injury is usually obvious because of visible wounds to the head. However, the coup-contrecoup brain injury may occur without any exterior damage to the head or skull. The victim may first feel a headache, but because there's no evidence

I am writing to you concerning the new trainings that will take place on how to deal with concussions. Foremost, I will discuss how the brain is affected by an impact. The brain can be seriously injured when there is a blow to the skull. A coup injury occurs immediately under a site where there has been an impact. Contrastingly, a countrecoup injury is an impact that occurs on the reverse side that brings a person's head to a sudden stop, thus causing the brain to hit the skull. The parts of the

Melanie Reece presented on Blast induced neurotrauma, which can cause damage to the brain and cause permanent damage. Research regarding Blast induced Neurotrauma started around WW1, most cases were regarding shell shock. Blast induced traumatic brain injury (BINT) can cause damaging effects that linger on, after the initial shock, mainly due to the impact on specific areas in the brain. BINT’s have different types of severity, ranging from mild to severe. WW1 cases were researched primarily due