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«This study and others make us a bit skeptical of the notion that the long - term effects of blast injury to the brain are somehow unique.
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Hospital officials said only one of the injured was seriously hurt, with what was described as a blast injury.
A series of leg injuries caused him to miss 56 games, but he still led the Brewers in homers, with 20, and blasted three grand slams.
However, his conditioning became an issue — coach Mike Martz publicly blasted Crouch for showing up to training camp out of shape — when a string of injuries limited his availability in practice.
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Moyes was delighted to call upon Arnautovic after he recovered from a hamstring injury, and further signs of his blossoming relationship with Lanzini were on show for West Ham's fourth as the Austrian winger spun Schindler on the touchline before allowing Lanzini to take the ball off his toes to cut inside and blast his second into the roof of the net.
FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said that 29 people were injured in the blast, most of them suffering minor injuries with one serious.
Seven people were confirmed dead in the aftermath of the blast, while 132 people sustained varying degrees of injury.
While acknowledging that blast might cause more severe or extreme brain injury than other forms of TBI, she believes that structurally and physiologically the injuries are similar.
Nina Sayer, a psychologist and the director of Department of Veterans Affairs research into polytrauma and blast - related injuries for returning veterans, says that if the United States wins overseas but fails to care for its soldiers back home, it's a hollow victory, indeed.
In contrast to the brain injury groups, 59 percent of the blast - without - head - injury group experienced moderate to severe disability as did 41 percent of the group that had experienced no blasts and no head injuries.
Of these, 53 had mild traumatic brain injury involving an explosion and 29 had mild traumatic brain injury unrelated to a blast.
«This may suggest an additive effect, where blast exposure and combat exposure combined have some effect, and brain injury on top of that has additional influence on PTSD and other outcome measures,» Brody said.
Both groups of veterans who were near an explosion, regardless of whether they had TBI symptoms, showed a significant amount of injury compared to the veterans not exposed to a blast.
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.
Most plastic surgery cases involved the limbs, reflecting the high rate of injuries caused by blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs)-- the «signature wounding mechanism» of the war in Afghanistan, according to the authors.
The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a horrific type of medical trauma known as the «dismounted complex blast injury» (DCBI).
The discussion also covers the management of common long - term complications such as heterotopic ossification, in which solid masses of bone begin growing inappropriately within soft tissues near blast injury sites, and the formation of blood clots in the extremities and lungs, which occurs at a high rate in DCBI survivors.
«Rapamycin treatment prevents crippling abnormal bone formation after severe limb injuries: Significant benefits seen after treatment with FDA - approved drug in rodent model of blast - related limb injury hold promise for first effective treatment to prevent trauma - induced heterotopic ossification (HO) formation.»
«Our research should stimulate renewed clinical interest in developing glucocorticoid therapies to treat blast - induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and other disorders of the central nervous system,» Morrison says.
«Critically ill bomb - blast patients needed quick assessments of their injuries, which had the most devastating effects to the lower limbs.»
Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.
Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.
«We were the first to use our blast injury model to precisely control the biomechanical initiators of injury and measure subsequent changes to BBB function more directly than in vivo.»
The force of the blast then blows an individual against an object, like a wall or a roof, causing blunt trauma to the head.Finally, in response to these injuries, the brain releases a metabolic cascade of neurochemicals that have a toxic effect on brain tissue.Reyes had no penetrating fragments; he experienced three of the four blast insults.
There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.
The approach, based on Nobel - Prize winning techniques, could illuminate the illness, in which muscles and tendons progressively turn into bone, and addresses the similar destructive process that afflicts a growing number of veterans who have suffered blast injuries — including traumatic amputations or injuries to the brain and nervous system.
Radovitzky says this reasoning stems from studies of «blast lung» — blast - induced injuries such as tearing, hemorrhaging, and swelling of the lungs, where it was found that mass matters: The larger an animal is, the more resilient it may be to lung damage.
In general, they found that an animal's skull and other fleshy structures act as a shield, blunting the effects of a blast wave: The thicker these structures are, the less vulnerable an animal is to injury.
«New scaling law helps estimate humans» risk of blast - induced traumatic brain injury.»
The lack of knowledge about how an explosive blast injures the brain has hampered efforts to treat these injuries.
Most of these injuries have resulted from blasts from roadside bombs and other explosives planted by insurgents.
The inert gas has been used for the first time to try and reduce the impact of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) caused by blasts such as those in conflict zones and terror attacks.
A team of brain injury experts led by researchers at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington have found that the more blasts veterans are exposed to, the more they show chronic changes in neuron activity in specific brain regions.
«Another area of application for this framework would be the simulation of tissue injuries caused by extreme events such as blasts, car crashes and sport collisions.»
Unlike blunt force trauma, where damage / injury is usually localised to one area of the brain, blasts create a shockwave that affects the whole brain — causing widespread damage.
«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»
That's analogous to what we're seeing in the DTI scans of brains of those with blast injuries.»
«Our conclusion is that blast - related ear injuries constitute a major source of ongoing morbidity following the bombings.
The supernova blast waves, of course, just add insult to injury.»
A soldier — or a civilian — can survive the blast without a single penetrating wound and still receive the worst diagnosis: traumatic brain injury, or TBI, the signature injury of the Iraq War.
In soldiers who survive traumatic brain injury from blast exposure, pituitary dysfunction after their blast injury may be an important, under - recognized, and potentially treatable source of their symptoms, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a new military vehicle shock absorbing device that may protect troops from traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a land mine blast.
Because multiple symptoms common with blast traumatic brain injury are also seen with growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies, perhaps treating these hormone deficiencies will help improve the symptom burden and quality of life for these veterans,» said lead study author Jeffrey S. Taylor, MD, endocrinology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.
Other projects that use stem cells include the development of cell therapies to improve functional recovery after compartment syndrome, a condition associated with blast injuries that can cause tissue death and amputation.
One particular project that I am very proud of is development of an approach to reduce damage to the eyes of Members of the Armed Forces who encounter blast trauma injuries in the combat theater, a project supported by the US Army.
Blast injury due to improvised explosive devices was the representative injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to a new study in JAMA Neurology, U.S. military service members who endured a mild concussion after blast injury while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan may continue to experience mental health symptoms as well as decreases in quality of life for at least five years after their injury.
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