Sentences with phrase «concussive injury»
A "concussive injury" refers to harm or damage caused to the brain when it gets shaken or jolted strongly. It can happen from a blow to the head or a violent or forceful movement, like whiplash from a car accident or a fall. This injury can affect brain function temporarily, resulting in symptoms like confusion, memory problems, dizziness, and headaches. Full definition
TBI is considered a «signature injury» of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and is of particular concern because of the frequency of concussive injuries from explosions and other combat - related incidents.
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«As it stands, there is no absolute threshold for concussive injury and while these sensors may identify individuals who receive a certain type of hit or impact, we do not yet know if those impacts not identified by a set threshold may lead to concussion.
The scientists compared that tissue with brain tissue samples from three young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler, all of whom had a history of repetitive concussive injury, and with four samples from comparably aged control subjects with no history of blast exposure, concussive injury or neurological disease.
For their study, the researchers analyzed postmortem brain tissue from four military service members who were known to have been injured by a blast or had a concussive injury.
In the current study, the researchers found that males were significantly more likely than females to experience either retrograde or anterograde amnesia associated with a concussive injury than females.
Jane McGonigal (author of Realty Is Broken) founded the site after she recovered from a concussive injury.
It was by all accounts a modest collision however it caused a concussive injury.