Sentences with phrase «over brain trauma»

Safety concerns and lawsuits over brain trauma in football players of all ages have recently made headlines.

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

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.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

The debate over how to respond to the growing research linking brain trauma to injuries sustained in sports has spread to Europe, with many of the same dynamics seen in recent years as the issue gained momentum in the United States.

You spend nights if not weeks mulling over your baby's vomit and Google up on all the potential brain damage symptoms you can possibly find from baby's head trauma.

Besides age, other risk factors include family history, previous brain trauma, heart disease and gender (the prevalence rate for women over 70 is 16 percent, compared with men at 11 percent).

To develop their predictive model, Dr. Miller and colleagues evaluated 57,588 patients in the National Trauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain iTrauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain itrauma with isolated brain injury.

He read constantly, even during the worst of his illness, and he would pore over literature on head trauma and brain disease, putting exclamation points in the margins and circling terms that he thought applied to him, such as «ice pick headache» and «disinhibition» and «dysfluency.»

Immediate traumas such as accidents / injuries, will shock the neural - muscular friendship, and long - term build - up of improper skeletal alignment, via either being still too long, or moving «incorrectly» or mis - aligned over an extended period of time, will continuously send noxious, unpleasant news to the brain.

With over 20 years of experience in personal injury law at both the trial and appellate court levels, Attorney Burnside has represented people with brain and head trauma...

While most of these traumas are minor because the brain is protected by the skull, there are still over half a million head injuries that require medical attention and hospitalization.

With over 35 years of experience as ICBC claim and personal injury lawyers, we handle a broad range of claims including car accidents, bicycle accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, defective products and slip and falls, while our injury experience ranges from whiplash and other soft tissue damage, to severe brain and spinal cord trauma.

While there are many highly skilled attorneys throughout Los Angeles and Southern California, we have over 30 years of experience in the most challenging personal injury cases including those related to brain injuries and head trauma.

Over the last twenty years, neuroscientists studying the brain have learned how fear and trauma influence the mature brain, and more recently, the developing brain.

Emerging scientific investigation is improving our understanding of the causal biological pathways for these robust associations.46 Early childhood trauma, including physical abuse, leads to the production of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline that are normally protective, but with severe or persistent trauma can become toxic.47, 48 These stress hormones regulate neural circuits that are important in modulating an individual's response to stress, and over time, are associated with structural and functional changes in the brain and other organs.

Description: Over the past two decades, research has clearly documented the vulnerability of the developing brain and the negative impact of social and emotional trauma on brain functioning.

Neuroscience is showing over and over that trauma is housed in our «mid brains» — the limbic system.