Sentences with phrase «for head trauma»

Make sure to get treatment right away because motorcyclists often have head injuries and the hospital needs to evaluate the rider for head trauma, hematomas, and a host of other injuries.

If you are not wearing a seat belt, your body could be thrown around your vehicle, putting you at risk for head trauma.

Rarely, brain surgery is indicated for head trauma to evacuate blood clots, skull fractures or foreign bodies (bullet, broken tooth, dirt / debris).

Now named Lizzy, the mother had to be rushed to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital to be treated for head trauma and a...

Now named Lizzy, the mother had to be rushed to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital to be treated for head trauma and a collapsed lung.

Now named Lizzy, the mother had to be rushed to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital to be treated for head trauma and a collapsed lung, with her baby in tow.

The eyes have served as a window into the brain, with disconjugate eye movements — eyes rotating in opposite directions — considered a principal marker for head trauma as early as 3,500 years ago.

Main issue is that kids are sitting with the head quite far forward leading to extremely or nonexistent side impact protection and higher probability for head trauma.

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.

Because the test is simple, quick and easy to administer, not just by athletic trainers or health care professionals but parents and coaches, it may have particular value in sideline screening for concussion at the youth level, where immediate evaluation for head trauma by a trained professional is often not possible.

Treatment for head traumas generally include initial attention to shock, followed by supportive care, such as, IV fluids, oxygen supplementation and anti inflammatory drugs.

Not exact matches

Kyle went to the hospital for burns and head, neck, chest, and waist trauma, but survived the crash.

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.

This is basically as bad as it gets for the Detroit Lions, especially with all of the lawsuits going around and all of the players that have brain damage because of repeated head trauma.

This is a very specific product designed to prevent microscopic injuries, and thus far it's unclear whether the NeuroShield will have any effect in preventing concussions caused by head trauma — but it is a step forward for safety.

As a result of general toddler abuse, some of her toys have also developed their own unique little personalities (that were definitely not intended by the manufacturer): I don't know if your kid's Elmo is as passive - aggressive as ours, but I don't blame Maxine for all the head trauma she's caused him.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

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On re-testing, researchers found that, while the times of athletes who had not suffered head trauma were actually faster, the times for those found on subsequent examination to have suffered head trauma were at least 5 seconds slower.

The decision by San Francisco 49er Chris Borland to retire from the NFL after just one season out of concern for the long - term effect of head trauma has predictably generated a media firestorm.

«Our data indicate that head trauma events can be effectively identified by K - D test time scores, and that analyses of this new measure in future studies can establish its role as a rapid sideline screening test for concussion,» she writes.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

An August 2015 editiorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, [41] said that autopsy studies - many conducted in Boston at the Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - and a study reporting that retired NFL players who began playing football before age 12 demonstrated greater levels of cognitive impairment in their 40s - 60s than those who started later, [40] «raises concern that an accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma may lead to (or be a leading factor) for CTE.»

The league announced it would provide $ 3.5 million in funding for research, an annual conference of team physicians and athletic trainers, and a head trauma task force.

Head trauma and participation in contact sports as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.

Heads Up Concussion in Youth Sports is a Center for Disease Control (CDC) program to bring awareness to the dangers of head trauma in young people, particularly those in youth sports.

Historically, episiotomies were performed to prevent spontaneous tearing of the perineum and to reduce the risk of fetal birth trauma (such as when the baby's head would push against the perineum for a long time).

They could provide a mechanism for conducting longitudinal studies on head trauma, allowing researchers to assess years of data on the frequency, magnitude and ramifications of head impacts.

A new study shows that paid time off for new parents is linked with a reduction in cases of abusive head trauma in infants.

Association of a postnatal parent education program for abusive head trauma with subsequent pediatric abusive head trauma hospitalization rates.

Concussions and Our Kids is the first prescriptive book of its kind to address the issue of head trauma in sports and provide preventive solutions to protect athletes and give guidelines for the way sports can be played safely.

The website is designed to serve as both a resource center for traumatic brain injury information and news, and a personalized record of an athlete's head traumas across his career.

So if there is or has been a head trauma or your child's been unattended with a sibling and they're screaming and crying, you can look for that bulge.

The fifty - bed shelter for women with children will put a roof over the heads of needy families, provide wrap - around services designed to reduce trauma on the children, and work to quickly return the family to permanent housing.

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This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

«Use of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and death or neurosurgery for older patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.

Researchers analyzed charts for 2,100 patients who were 55 or older with head trauma who were transported to the hospital by EMS.

«This research increases our basic understanding of the effects of head trauma, particularly for those severe single injuries that can and do happen in military service and contact sports,» said Naomi Rosenberg, Ph.D., dean of the Sacker School and vice dean for research at Tufts University School of Medicine.

A review of good - quality studies finds that legislation making bike helmets mandatory for kids causes significant reduction in head trauma cases.

When someone suffers a head trauma, sometimes there is damage to the optic nerve that is responsible for passing information between the eyes and the brain.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

The football players were found to have a suggestive increased risk of medically documented head trauma, especially in the 153 students who played football for more than one season, but they still did not show increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases.

The gene in question, apolipoprotein E (apoE), codes for a protein in the brain's astrocyte cells that seems to help spur nerve cell growth and clear up debris from neuronal injuries brought by head trauma, stroke, or cerebral hemorrhage.

Steve: Carson is obviously talking about the NFLs concussion crisis, the head trauma faced by players has been a subject of discussion for years now, but it really exploded into the public consciousness with the death of twelve - time Pro Bowler Junior Seau, who took his own life on May 2nd.

Stem cell therapies are clinically unproven, the physiology of head trauma remains a mystery, and rest is still the best Rx for pulled muscles.

For instance, men who receive head trauma early in life may simply be prone to risky behavior in general.

«We've observed for the first time this particular wave phenomenon in the brain, and we think it could be a primary mechanism of neural injury in many types of head trauma,» says Gianmarco Pinton, PhD, an assistant professor in the Joint UNC - NC State Department of Biomedical Engineering.