Sentences with phrase «after a head injury»

I am shocked when athletes return to the field of play shortly after a head injury.

Poor brain function leads to poor gut function (this explains why people often suffer from gut problems after a head injury).

Your guinea pig may experience seizures after a head injury, where the animal does not have control over his body.

Victims may be unlikely to earn their own living after a head injury — and if they are able to work, they will usually suffer a severe reduction in their earning capacity.

Maintaining good blood flow immediately after the head injury is also important to minimize the damage suffered to the brain.

Fulham could test Mourinho's resolve over Schwarzer again now that Courtois has been passed fit after his head injury against Arsenal.

Nonetheless, you'll need to keep a close eye on your child during the forty - eight hours after a head injury because it can take that much time for damaged veins to leak and cause swelling in the brain.»

Suffering short - term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose.

It involves the loss of memory of anything that occurred before the event that triggered the amnesia, and often occurs after a head injury.

The seventh, a man the researchers referred to as SM, had lost his ability to recognize faces after a head injury suffered when he was 18.

Whilst I agree that after the head injury Cech deteriorated (who wouldn't?)

Cech is not among them and hasn't been for a few years — he's a great keeper but his absolute dominance has decreased as he's aged, his ability has sloped off and he took a huge step back after his head injury.

Second, Kos should have been substituted right after the head injury.

The captain's availability was questioned after a head injury in the week but Mertesacker made the starting XI and was instantly making tough tackles against Watford's attacking forces.

Swansea paid the price for failing to take a number of obvious chances with Michu unusually wasteful in front of goal wearing a skullcap after his head injury against St Gallen in the Europa League.

Given their other health benefits, it is «hard to see the harm» of consuming a fish oil supplement after head injury, says Dr. William P. Meehan, III.

«Sometimes student athletes return to play too soon after a head injury,» said Jed York, CEO of the San Francisco 49ers.

At age 1, she received her first treatment after a head injury and I can tell you that every mother's voice I encountered through the NHF chat rooms was in my head.

The concussed players underwent brain scans at 13 hours and again seven weeks after their head injury, and the uninjured players had brain scans at the same time.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

«Memory decline after head injury may be prevented by slowing brain cell growth: Study questions traditional scientific view that neurogenesis aids recovery.»

On the clinical side, in some cases, people — maybe after a head injury or a stroke — suddenly cease to enjoy music, while still enjoying everything else, and while perceiving music perfectly well.

This is critical if we are to develop new treatments to prevent epilepsy from developing after a head injury, stroke, or brain tumor.»

The team found that induced hypothermia was successful at reducing the build - up of pressure in the skull after head injury.

Pinton and colleagues, with help from recent advances in a technology called ultrasound elastography, developed an ultrasound imaging device and data - processing algorithms to track the larger, more powerful shear waves that they and other researchers suspect cause tissue damage after head injuries.

The authors conducted a study of injured patients at an emergency department in a hospital in France to examine whether persistent symptoms three months after a head injury were specific to concussion or may be better described as part of PTSD.

Then after four days, the Read more about Immune cells help the brain lining heal after head injuries - Scimex

A man awakens after a head injury and finds that he's been charged with murder.

Diuretics can be used for any disease where fluid can accumulate, such as heart or lung disease, or even in the brain after a head injury.

Our Kentucky brain injury attorneys explain the common types of hematoma after a head injury, and what you can expect during and after treatment.

Two recent, and devastating, media stories: One of a young woman injured falling off a boat and hospitalized in Croatia One of a man left in a German hospital after a head injury are prompting this post.

«Patients and their families should expect the physical symptoms that they experience after a head injury to get better over the next few weeks, but that emotional symptoms may come on later, even as the physical symptoms subside,» said lead researcher Dr. Matthew Eisenberg.

Oxygen supplementation is often provided for the first few hours after a head injury.

«Why there is sometimes permanent vision loss after head injury.»

While the regenerative capability of brain cells, in the hippocampus — the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory — slows down as part of the aging process, the Rutgers scientists determined that the process that occurred after a head injury was related to injury and not age.

While the reasons for reduced cerebral blood flow in concussed athletes are still under investigation, the findings may have important implications for decisions on when athletes are ready to return to play after head injuries, according to the study's principal investigator, Michael McCrea, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurology and director of brain injury research the Medical College of Wisconsin.

«But what we found in our study was that after a head injury the decline seems to be more rapid.»

After a head injury, the protective lining around the brain heals with help from two waves of immune cells, according to a new US study in mice.

Then, after any head injury, doctors would scan that brain again.

The good news is that kids typically recover, Giza said, but it is crucial to protect them after a head injury.

This helps explain why gut function suffers after head injuries, with dementia, or in children with autism.

After a head injury, Nicki goes into a coma, where she celebrates Hanukkah over and over, with a different nightmare date each time.

A real understanding of the consequences of traumatic brain injury only comes through the stories of the people who have known the victim before and after the head injury.

Now researchers in London are suggesting another reason — that after a head injury your brain may actually appear older than it actually is.