Sentences with phrase «in traumatic head injuries»

The law regarding negligence claims in Washington D.C. is complex, and you need a skilled attorney to ensure that you receive all of the compensation to which you are entitled in your traumatic head injury case.

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I have one son who almost died of a traumatic head injury and had emergency brain surgery in 2007 and is 100 % fine now.

As a rule of thumb, the most significant factor in preventing traumatic and potentially catastrophic spinal cord injuries involves «seeing what you hit» and «keeping your head up.»

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.

The public's perception that a direct causal link exists between repetitive head contact and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is largely the result of one - sided, sensationalized, and biased reporting, argue four head injury researchers in a provocative editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 26-53-102 (2011) requires each amateur sports organization (definition includes public and private schools) to adopt and enforce a concussion and head injury policy that describes the nature and risk of a concussion or traumatic head injury and risk of continuing to participate in a sporting event after sustaining such an injHead Injury: Code 26-53-102 (2011) requires each amateur sports organization (definition includes public and private schools) to adopt and enforce a concussion and head injury policy that describes the nature and risk of a concussion or traumatic head injury and risk of continuing to participate in a sporting event after sustaining such an injhead injury policy that describes the nature and risk of a concussion or traumatic head injury and risk of continuing to participate in a sporting event after sustaining such an injhead injury and risk of continuing to participate in a sporting event after sustaining such an injury.

As a result, Dr. Meehan argues that «the term mild traumatic brain injury should not be used interchangeably with concussion,» as suggested by the authors of a 2010 Canadian study, 2 which found that how a brain injury was labeled made a difference when it came to treatment, and suggested that, to encourage full reporting of head injuries in sports and to allow adequate management and recovery time, MTBI be used in its place.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

It's an attempt to figure out how we got so much more worried for our kids in just one generation, and to separate the real dangers from the ones foisted upon us by the media, and by other folks with things to sell (like baby safety product manufacturers who have to scare us about a remote danger like «traumatic head injury from toddling» before we'll buy their products, like the «ThudGuard» — a helmet for kids to wear all day when they're learning to walk).

Launching in fall 2013, the NFL, Under Armour and GE will invite proposals for new materials and technologies that can protect the brain from traumatic injury and new tools for tracking head impacts in real time.

A rubric was created in which each state was assessed based on five equally weighted sections pertaining to sudden cardiac arrest, traumatic head injuries, exertional heat stroke, appropriate medical coverage, and emergency preparedness.

SIGNA ™ Premier is a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system developed through the GE - NFL Head Health Initiative, which aimed to develop new imaging tools, particularly to aid in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.

He's accused of killing his neighbor, 50 - year - old Patricia LaCaprara, during a robbery in July 2013, she was found dead in her home on Brown Street and as a result of traumatic head injuries.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, shows up in athletes and others who've had repetitive injuries to the head, such as concussions.

The randomized, placebo - controlled study, Familiar Auditory Sensory Training (FAST), enrolled 15 patients with traumatic closed head injuries who were in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery could instead lead to epileptic seizures and long - term cognitive decline, according to a new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study.

Carson: You know, I've been following the whole traumatic brain injury head - banging concussions issue for years and years and years, only because I was diagnosed back in 1990 with post concussion syndrome.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that soccer players who frequently head the ball have brain abnormalities resembling those found in patients with concussion (mild traumatic brain injury).

So the team decided to study ISRIB in a second model of traumatic brain injury known as a closed head injury, which resembles a concussion from a fall.

«Dr Burton's work is groundbreaking because it clarifies the roles of aquaporins in the brain during the short and long - term responses to traumatic head injury.

Inflammation in the brain that does not resolve appropriately, such as after traumatic injury to head, has also been linked to Parkinson's.

The association with traumatic brain injuries was not as clear as for head injuries, which may be due to a smaller number of these events in the study population.

Researchers found that multiple TBIs also were associated with a significant increase in other psychological symptoms already tied to single traumatic head injuries, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, and the severity of the concussive symptoms.

The risk of dementia was highest in those who sustained severe, traumatic head injuries between the ages of 41 and 50 (PLoS Medicine, doi.org/b9dh).

In addition to these familiar diseases, they also discuss how designer DNA drugs may help those suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease affecting individuals with a history of repeated head injury, including athletes, military personnel, and domestic abuse victims.

Traumatic head injuries can be dangerous for teenagers in the long term, but one group of teenage athletes is getting more than its fair share.

«A concussion is basically a traumatic injury where brain function is affected, but in general, brain structure is not affected,» says Andrew Tucker, MD, the medical director of the MedStar Union Memorial Sports Medicine Program in Columbia, Md., and the head physician of the Baltimore Ravens.

Four things that we can do that may reduce our risk of developing Parkinson's disease is exercise, avoiding dairy products, pesticides, and avoid getting hit in the head (which means wearing your seatbelt, bike helmet), and — if you read journal articles written by scientists with way too much time on their hands — avoid getting attacked by extraterrestrials, a leading cause of traumatic brain injury in comic books.

Beautifully filmed in the Badlands of South Dakota, the movie tells the story of Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), a young rodeo rider recovering from a traumatic head injury he received after being thrown from a bronco.

In the scene that Will Smith will be most remembered for from this biopic / drama, his Dr. Bennet Omalu (a Pathologist from Africa who comes to America and becomes a crusader in the area of traumatic head injuries in football) repeatedly asks a reluctant colleague to «Tell the Truth!&raquIn the scene that Will Smith will be most remembered for from this biopic / drama, his Dr. Bennet Omalu (a Pathologist from Africa who comes to America and becomes a crusader in the area of traumatic head injuries in football) repeatedly asks a reluctant colleague to «Tell the Truth!&raquin the area of traumatic head injuries in football) repeatedly asks a reluctant colleague to «Tell the Truth!&raquin football) repeatedly asks a reluctant colleague to «Tell the Truth!»

The definition continues: «Traumatic brain injury applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem - solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psycho - social behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

The Fowler Law Firm specializes in traumatic brain injury and head injury cases in addition to other Colorado automobile accident - related cases.

Accident injuries to the head often impact the brain as well, resulting in a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Closed head concussion injury, open head injury, other types of traumatic brain injury, as well as soft tissue injury, are just some of the possible injuries that can be sustained in catastrophic accidents.

When a person is involved in an auto accident or pedestrian accident, he may suffer from a serious injury, such as a brain injury or other traumatic head injury.

The most common causes of a traumatic brain injury in Bardstown would be a motor vehicle collision where someone hits the side of their head on either the door frame or the glass window.

If you or a loved one has suffered traumatic brain injuries or other head injuries in Colorado, you should contact an experienced Colorado traumatic brain injury attorney as soon as possible for a review of your situation.

Also, many SUVs have roofs which do not comply with NTSA standards, resulting in collapsed roofs in rollovers and failing to protect whoever is inside from traumatic head and crush injuries.

The injuries in some cases are fatal and when they are not the passenger can suffer traumatic head injuries, internal injuries, spinal cord injuries, fractured or broken bones, severe neck and back injuries, cuts and gashes.

Head trauma and traumatic brain injuries happen in truck accidents and are often life - altering.

Your head and brain are especially susceptible to injury in a car accident where not much force is needed for anyone to suffer a concussion or even a traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can lead to long lasting or permanent cognitive and physical problems.

Your daughter was just hit in the head with a baseball, and the emergency medical technician suspects a traumatic brain injury.

A head injury may result in a concussion in a best case scenario, but high speeds can lead to great impacts that may cause a traumatic brain injury, paralysis, blindness, or even death.

Even mild head injuries can result in traumatic brain injury, and the damage associated with brain injury can often be permanent and debilitating.

A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, can be broadly defined as any trauma or blow to the head that causes a disruption in the normal functioning of your brain.

Head injury is the leading cause of death in motorcycle accidents, with 74 % of fatalities involving a traumatic brain injury

No part of the body is immune from injury in a car accident; accident victims can suffer injuries to the brain and head, including concussion or traumatic brain injury, and to the neck and spine, like whiplash or a disc bulge or herniation.

Severe head injury, or traumatic brain injury, is one of the most common types of injuries sustained in a bike accident.

... experienced a severe head injury on July 31, 2010 which resulted in extensive post traumatic imaging findings including grade 1 and 2 diffuse axonal injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage including involvement of basal cisterns, intraventricular hemorrhage, multiple subdural hematomas, small epidural hematoma and left frontal and bilateral temporal hemorrhagic contusions.