Whether you fell and bumped your noggin or got beaned by a baseball, doctors don't mess
around with head injuries.
Not exact matches
With these findings we can now formulate a plausible hypothesis as to why repeat
head injuries to young men in their teens and 20s lead to personality changes later in adult life and dementia in old age: rotational
head injury induces damage, especially
around blood vessels, leading to local tangle formation, followed by a slow spread of destruction.
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.
Journeyman review: Paddy Considine follows up his superb directorial debut Tyrannosaur,
with this drama based
around a boxer who suffers a serious
head injury...
After hitting his
head on a concrete floor (thus only confirming the tot's fear of serious
injury stemming from accident), Richard does a Dorothy Gale into an animated land structured
around a library motif,
with his Virgils manifesting themselves as books called Adventure (Patrick Stewart), Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), and Horror («voice god» Frank Welker).
Gorgeously directed by Chloé Zhao
with the same assured command of documentary and narrative techniques she showed in her 2015 debut, «Songs My Brothers Taught Me,» this is a lovely, lyrical ode to South Dakota rodeo culture, centered
around a Sioux cowboy named Brady Blackburn who, having suffered a severe
head injury, is struggling
with the likelihood that he'll never ride again.
You may never know when horsing
around will go a bit too far and result in an
injury, so it's best to watch your pooch when he's getting acquainted
with other dogs.Flea control is another consideration that should be at the forefront of your preparations when you
head off to the local dog park.
Some common accidents in and
around a pool include slipping and falling on slippery cement or wet tiles,
head and neck
injuries resulting from diving board mishaps, and excessive roughhousing
with consequences as tragic as a drowning accident.
According to the CDC, traumatic
head injuries contribute to
around 30 % of all deaths associated
with injuries and an average of 138 people die
with a TBI every day.
Such
injuries may be due to medical negligence through the failure to recognize and timely respond to nuchal cord (the wrapping of the umbilical cord
around the baby's
head), breech presentation, or problems
with the mother's placenta, to name just a few.