Sentences with phrase «while brain trauma»

While brain trauma can be devastating, it doesn't have to be a life sentence.

Not exact matches

While synaesthesia may be caused by brain trauma or degeneration, many people report symptoms from an early age.»

To him, the link between football and CTE is clear: «CTE is a progressive, degenerative brain disease, that all evidence points to, is caused by trauma — and usually repetitive brain trauma — that appears to be acquired while you are an athlete, and then slowly rots your brain the rest of your life.»

«Our hope is that this bill will reduce the risk of long - term damage for student athletes who suffer concussions or other brain - related trauma while participating in sports.»

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

While such research confirms that chronic stress and trauma are bad for the brain, it's a stretch to cite these studies as proof that attachment parenting is superior to «mainstream» Western parenting.

Hormones drive many of these sex differences, while major life events — such as puberty, pregnancy, parenthood or even traumas — also help shape male and female brain circuitry.

Co-author Dr. Bennet Omalu, who originally described CTE as depicted in the movie Concussion featuring Will Smith, added, «What our current work is doing in addition to other imaging modalities builds the foundation between identifying the negative effects of head trauma on the brain while the patient is still alive so that we can intervene with better treatments.»

The researchers concluded that in the early stages after stroke, improvements in voluntary movement can be attributed to a reduction in brain swelling because of the trauma and other spontaneous repairs, while later improvements result from «neuronal plasticity» — the reorganization or regeneration of nerve cells within the spinal cord in response to changes in the nerve network.

This entire year I have learned so much about the increase of punitive punishment for mostly students of color, the statistics that show 80 percent of students are taught by white educators while their classes are filled with students who have entirely different identities, fact - based knowledge about the brain, trauma, and so many other components of the educational system that need to be unpacked.

While trauma exposure includes many types of experiences, the child's body and brain stress - response systems are finite, so trauma will be physically «remembered» (Glaser, 2000; van der Kolk, 1994) by children as physical states and sensations in response to experiences in their environment.

While idiopathic epilepsy is a common cause of seizures in younger dogs, brain tumors, trauma, and toxins should also be ruled out.

While canine seizures may be caused by head trauma, brain tumors, toxins, infections, birth defects and many other identifiable causes, the vast majority of seizures in young dogs (one to three years old) are idiopathic or genetic epilepsy.

While most of these traumas are minor because the brain is protected by the skull, there are still over half a million head injuries that require medical attention and hospitalization.

While any personal injury is serious to the victim, those who have suffered burns, paralysis, brain trauma, fractures, or spinal injuries, have special needs that can only be addressed by an attorney with experience to fully present more complex injury cases.

Because a brain injury may be caused by a number of types of accidents or trauma, doctors may overlook it while treating other types of injuries.

With over 35 years of experience as ICBC claim and personal injury lawyers, we handle a broad range of claims including car accidents, bicycle accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, defective products and slip and falls, while our injury experience ranges from whiplash and other soft tissue damage, to severe brain and spinal cord trauma.

While there are many highly skilled attorneys throughout Los Angeles and Southern California, we have over 30 years of experience in the most challenging personal injury cases including those related to brain injuries and head trauma.

Being struck by a drunk driver while on a motorcycle leaves one susceptible to many debilitating injuries, including bone fractures, back, neck, and head injuries, brain trauma, severe burns, coma, and even death.

In last week's case (Meghji v. Lee) the Plaintiff suffered brain trauma after being struck by a motorist while walking in a marked cross-walk in 2003.

Relationship trauma occurs while the brain is developing and can shape the way individuals think and feel about themselves and others in their world (internal working models).

While everyone has this part of their brain, someone who has experienced trauma is more likely to see DANGER DANGER where someone else will see manageable triggers.

Child First simultaneously decreases toxic stress through comprehensive care coordination, while preventing damage to the brain from trauma through parent - child psychotherapeutic intervention.

Excessive drinking in adolescence can cause substantial harm to individuals and is associated with future alcohol - related problems.1 — 3 Drinking in adolescence is particularly risky because it is much more likely to be heavy and episodic (binge).4, 5 Excessive drinking during adolescence, while the brain is still developing, can be a major cause of trauma, physical injuries, hospitalisation, prolonged disability and premature death.1 — 3, 6 Alcohol contributes substantially to motor vehicle collisions, homicides, suicide, assault, sexual risk - taking and many other problems in Canada and the USA.7 — 16

Becoming trauma informed (learning strategies and language that increases safety while promoting optimal brain development) is a key piece of successfully addressing children's challenging behaviors.