Sentences with phrase «with mild concussions»

People with mild concussions can display no symptoms despite damage to the brain, and development of CTE is the cumulation of many subconcussive impacts to the brain.

A study looked at a quarter - million subjects who had been diagnosed with a mild concussion during the last 20 years.

I know many people who have got stuck in them and flipped off their bikes; a dear friend did it just last Thursday and is in bed now with a mild concussion, a shattered helmet and a few broken ribs.

Before these car accidents the claimant had been hospitalized as a result an unrelated PNE accident and was diagnosed with a mild concussion and soft - tissue injuries to her head and neck, and experienced symptoms of fatigue, headaches, nausea, and nervousness.

Not exact matches

In that race Wallace's Buick somersaulted three or four times, depending on who was counting, and he got off with only a strained neck and a mild concussion.

No longer is a young athlete with a «ding» or mild concussion allowed to return to play as soon as 15 to 30 minutes after his or her symptoms had cleared.

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.

Growing evidence suggests that repetitive concussions — or even sub-concussions, mild brain injuries that can't be diagnosed clinically — can occasionally produce long - term problems with thinking, behavior, and psychiatric problems.

Since 2011, the all - boys» private school, generally known as St. Mike's, has been running programs in partnership with the David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of Toronto to support the recovery of student athletes who have sustained concussions, known medically as mild traumatic brain injuries.

New research shows that the brains of some football players who had the usual head hits associated with the sport, but no concussions, still had signs of mild brain injury six months after the season ended.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

A Portland State University research team studying concussion has published an interactive diagram showing the many facets of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- from sleep problems to mood disorders to the increased danger of dementia — and how they connect with and affect each other.

Brain injuries can be classified as mild, moderate or severe, with mild injuries, or concussions, representing about 75 percent of cases.

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).

Most of the players had suffered at least one concussion during their careers, however, and athletes with three or more concussions were considerably more likely to have been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment — a condition that sometimes signals the approach of Alzheimer's disease.

The new study in mice also shows that repeated mild concussions with only a day to recover between injuries leads to mounting damage and brain inflammation that remains evident a year after injury.

Concussions can range from mild to serious with even mild concussions being disruptive to Concussions can range from mild to serious with even mild concussions being disruptive to concussions being disruptive to daily life.

According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms associated with a mild traumatic brain injury, such as a concussion, include:

Some had mild concussions with short lived symptoms while others had permanent problems.

Ms. Wong suffered soft tissue injuries, and a mild traumatic brain injury with later persistent symptoms of concussion including anxiety and depression, cognitive changes, sleep difficulties and significant personality change.

As a result of his concussion, plaintiff was diagnosed with mild cognitive deficits by his neuropsychologist.

While some concussions are relatively mild and allow for full recovery with proper care, other concussions can have costly, lasting effects.

Coincidentally, after a fall out of the aforementioned exciting big boy bed last week, complete with a trip to the ER and a mild concussion, this mom is missing the safety of the boring old crib... except for the fact that he could climb out of the crib, making it sooo not safe either...