Sentences with phrase «brain trauma in»

Safety concerns and lawsuits over brain trauma in football players of all ages have recently made headlines.

For example, if a person suffered severe brain trauma in a car accident that ultimately resulted in their death after weeks of hospital care, then compensation may be owed to the family for the deceased's full medical expenses, their pain and suffering, as well as lost wages.

Medline Plus advises that facial paralysis is generally caused either by damage or swelling of the facial nerves, or as the result of brain trauma in the area that signals the muscles in the face.

You or a loved one is suffering severe brain trauma in the wake of an accident.

«Disease caused by repeat brain trauma in athletes may affect memory, mood, behavior.»

«Doctors in the emergency room harness the Glasgow Coma Scale to assess the extent of brain trauma in incoming patients — from a child who falls off the bed to a victim of a major accident,» Prof. Pick continued.

Hit Count was designed to establish guidelines for help parents and coaches regulate the allowance of brain trauma in children.

Two news items on the subject of brain trauma in high school football, however, hit my desk over the past week which deserve comment.

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He suffered serious brain trauma and spent three months in an intensive care unit.

@Vivienne: that near - death experience is probably caused by a massive release of chemicals in the brain to offset whatever trauma you've just suffered.

This has reminded me of the book by Bessel A. van der Kolk called «The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.»

Three years ago, Tracy Morgan — the guy responsible for such comedy gold as SNL «s Brian Fellows and 30 Rock «s Tracy Jordan — almost died in a severe car accident that resulted brain trauma.

Or that the person was experiencing hallucinations induced by a lack of oxygen to and trauma to the brain resulting in fluctuating and erratic brain function?

Trauma in children will many times cause a physical change in the brain.

Even if it does, the trauma uncovers something wrong in the brain.

The sad truth of MMA is that most of the fanbase just tunes in to see shit talking and brain trauma.

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

After reading David Epstein's essay about Junior Seau and brain trauma (SCORECARD), I was left wondering if players and coaches are paying attention to the growing research that suggests that the combination of big - impact hits and constant smaller hits to the head play a major part in the trauma to a player's brain?

But it's becoming increasingly clear that the effects are serious, and range from momentary unconsciousness, confusion and memory loss — such as that suffered by Kramer — through to whiplash, debilitating headaches, and in the longer term the development of any number of emotional distresses and disorders linked to brain trauma.

Constant updating of mandatory safety guidelines and research funding, to ensure the greatest possible health, especially in terms of brain trauma.

Concussion is a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Bennet Omalu, MD, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football - related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known.

This study and others like it help to show that there exists in children's lives a whole spectrum of environmental factors that fall short of the traditional definition of trauma but still have an adverse effect on brain development.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

«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.

This started being common and become law when forceps deliveries were very common, to help prevent bleeding in the brain because of the extra trauma to the baby's head.

Because most concussion victims score 14 or 15 on the GCS, its primary utility is in ruling out more serious brain injuries.4 Thus,» [w] hile highly useful in the sphere of emergency response to trauma, the Glasgow Coma Scale should not be used to assess the significance of a concussion,» writes William P. Meehan, III, MD, MomsTeam concussion medicine expert emeritus and former Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic in the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, in his 2011 book, Kids, Sports, and Concussion.1

With this understanding, foster parents can create healing environments that focus on the mind - body connection and the role of the brain in trauma.

It is amazing what a 19 month old brain has stored in its memory about past trauma and abuse that comes out at 5.5 when you finally get the brain organized enough to tell it.

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.

But better detection does nothing to prevent such brain trauma, or at least reduce the risk, in the first place.

Two of the Purdue studies [36,37] suggested that it might be possible to reduce risk of brain trauma by gradually increasing the amount of contact in the football pre-season to allow time for players» brains to adjust, and one, by finding that players who sustained more than 50 hits per game, were much more likely than those who sustained fewer hits to be «flagged» by ImPACT and / or fMRI results as having neurocognitive deficits or altered brain activity, suggested that players be limited to a certain number of plays per game (a hard rule to implement, given the prevalence of two - way players in the high school game).

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect of repetitive head impacts (RHI).

During the past year, Katherine and I have worked together to bring much - needed attention to brain trauma that occurs in youth sports.

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

The debate over how to respond to the growing research linking brain trauma to injuries sustained in sports has spread to Europe, with many of the same dynamics seen in recent years as the issue gained momentum in the United States.

Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.

In the above article the words: cellular, hormones, brain and nervous system appear by the second paragraph with absolutely no references to explain how these biological terms or processes relate to birth or birth trauma.

It is hoped it could also be used more widely by frontline medics in the NHS and military to improve diagnosis and treatment within the first critical hour after brain trauma.

Yes, no scientific evidence proves this helps / hurts, but in all my work and research I am of the opinion that less dosage of repetitive brain trauma is better for humans.

About one - third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout, indicating a higher incidence of brain trauma than boxing or other martial arts, according to a new study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

We are now beginning to understand some facets of human emotionality, decision - making, morality, trauma and the drive for political power down to the cellular level, by observing changes in neurochemistry, neural pathways, and neuro - anatomical transformations in the brain.

Chris» interest in brain trauma stems from...