Sentences with phrase «of brain trauma»

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

«We still think the physics of how a blast interacts with the brain is quite different from other kinds of brain trauma,» he added.

However, nearly 80 percent of patients in both categories of brain trauma suffered moderate to severe overall disability within a year after injury.

Calling upon past educational and work records, working with current doctors and evaluating clients with experts in evaluation of brain trauma are not within the skills of the ordinary attorney.

He was so funny and unaffected by the kind of brain trauma he might have otherwise experienced in another sport, and he really got me thinking about social responsibility.

Seizures are a common side effect of brain trauma.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

On rare occasions, a person suffering a stroke or other forms of brain trauma will develop dysmusia, says Julie Ayotte of the University of Montreal.

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.

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

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

What if a victim of brain trauma who is supposedly in a vegetative state is actually fully awake but unable to even blink an eye to communicate?

«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.

Dr Dickinson said: «Blast TBI has not been as widely studied as other types of brain trauma, but is now becoming recognised as a specific injury that can result in debilitating symptoms.

And regardless of whether they'd had concussions, players have smaller hippocampi than men their age who don't play football and who have no history of brain trauma, the study suggests.

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.

Police reports, emergency room records, hospital records, and all records documenting the plaintiff's medical condition both prior to and after the accident will help build a clear picture of the brain trauma suffered due to the accident.

You imagine the real probability of brain trauma.

The research is so important to him because Nowinski still suffers from the effects of brain trauma he received after years of playing football and wrestling professionally.

McKee did make clear that in her research «there's a tremendous selection bias,» because the families of deceased players mainly donated the brains because they suspected some form of brain trauma.

They are doing a lot of that in Ready Children's Hospital here in San Diego and it's really reducing the incidence of brain trauma.

A clinical trial seeks to determine if apomorphine, once used to treat Parkinson's symptoms, could speed recovery from certain kinds of brain trauma

I created Head Safe because I want my children, as well as the kids I coach and athletes everywhere to have bright futures without the effects of brain trauma.

UCLA researchers report that the «master regulator» genes (in red) influence many other genes responsible for the effects of brain trauma.

Jonathan Kipnis (from left), James C. Cronk and Christopher C. Overall have discovered that doctors could load the brain with a custom blend of immune cells to battle genetic disorders, diseases such as Alzheimer's and the effects of brain trauma.