Sentences with phrase «receive head trauma»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Researchers conducted a prospective observational study in elderly patients and adult patients receiving antiplatelet therapy who presented with mild head injury at two trauma hospitals in Vienna: the Trauma Hospital Meidling and the Donaustrauma hospitals in Vienna: the Trauma Hospital Meidling and the DonausTrauma Hospital Meidling and the Donauspital.

By comparing the age at which the fracture was received with the age at which the victims eventually died, the team was able to calculate whether an instance of severe head trauma increased the victim's odds of dying in the following years.

I have also had to retire due to head trauma received in a car accident last fall (2012).

Dogs and cats can sustain injuries to the brain when they are hit by a car, attacked and bitten around the head by a larger animal or shaken by a larger animal or when they fall from a height, receive a gunshot wound or suffer blunt force trauma of some kind.

Like if you told me boxing causes brain damage, I get that because of the constant trauma that fighters receive to the head.

Cruise ship accident victims are more prone to receive critical injuries, such as broken bones or trauma to the head, as a result of a fall or trip on board the ship.

In particular, if you have received a concussion or head injury, be sure that your hospital has a brain trauma center to diagnose and treat your injury right away.