Sentences with phrase «brain injury case studies»

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When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

There is «strongly accumulating evidence that it is possible in many cases to increase brain activity [long] after severe injury,» Schiff said, but «there is essentially no infrastructure to have clinical follow - up» or even «larger investigative studies.»

One limitation of the study was that medical codes were used to identify people with traumatic brain injury and some cases may have been missed.

The major international study — led by the University of Edinburgh — tracked the outcomes of almost 400 cases of traumatic brain injuries from 18 different countries.

A number of small, controlled trials and case studies have tested the impact of yoga for those with spinal cord disease (myelopathy), traumatic brain injury, Guillain - Barre syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), peripheral and diabetic neuropathies, adrenomyeloneuropathy, neurocardiogenic syncope, and other neurological anomalies.

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1200 MRI scans were studied and the authors concluded that brain injury occurred in 23 % of the cases studied.