Ingrid was a social worker, wife, and mother who live in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters, aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children, serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. In addition, she attended to church habitually, even though her husband did not accompany her. Her interests included swimming, snorkeling, and hiking, based on previous family vacations. Not only was she close to her immediate family, but also with her college friends living throughout…
The patient is a 43-year-old female who sustained an injury on 08/01/16. The patient was instructed to attach a large 60-pound filter tank with a pump onto the hitch of the truck. As the patient was unloading the tank, the patient lost her grip on the top edge of the tank, which weighed greater than a 100 pounds. As a result, it struck the top of her head, which made her unconscious. She also complained of excruciating pain in the back, bilateral shoulders, right hand, neck, and head.…
These participants ranged in age from 18 to 51 years of age. The traumatic experience (i.e. car accident, horse-related accident, or work-related accident) happened between 10 months to 11 years before the research was conducted. All of the participants had experienced trauma that affected them in physical and psychological ways.…
Ray Easterling, former Falcons NFL player, was drafted in the 9th round,in 1972. He played for 7 years and started for 4 years. He was a leader on the team and even set many NFL and team records. He died May, 19, 2012. He was hit hard during a game and received a concussion. The coaches, athletic trainers, other medical staff and even the refs did not think that it was necessary to pull him from the game. Easterling continued to play through the concussion and it got worse hit after bruising hit. As time went on, Ray began to show signs of depression and insomnia, as it progressed he developed dementia and had trouble focusing, relating to people and organizing his thoughts. He suffered with all of these things 20 years after that horrifying…
Kristin Rupich is an acute care nurse practitioner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this article, Rupich examined six research studies investigating the use of hypothermia in patients with a traumatic brain injury. The effects associated hypothermia as on patients with a secondary brain injury. This article also discusses the complications that arose throughout the process, as well as the outcomes of the research studies and the patients in the hypothermia and normthermia groups.…
There are many cognitive functions that the brain performs on a daily basis. People can survive with traumatic brain injuries or strokes and still function to a point. The brain is an amazing organ that can be resilient and bounce back from brain injuries due to an accident or stroke, depending on which areas of the brain are affected. If certain areas of the brain are affected then the person could lose the ability to see, speak, remember, function, or even die. A person’s brain continues to change and develop throughout their lifetime, even if parts of the brain become necrotic due to dementia and other disorders. The best known case of how a person can survive and have a relatively normal life after a brain injury was Phineas Gage. His story is an amazing one that is hard to believe.…
In an unharmed state the brain is competent of performing innumerable tasks quicker than the blink of an eye. Even with fraction of it being injured due to a mishap or illness, the brain has still established that it can persist to function though typically at an abridged capacity. The flexibility of the brain and the aptitude for it to recompense for definite injuries is truly a feeling. Though we now have a clutch on the brain and the functions that take place within it, it is and will almost certainly remain anonymity and continue to require research for a long period of…
Many of the most watched television shows have a basis of crime, and murderers are almost always involved in these shows. What is rarely explored in these shows however is how the psychopathic killers become this way. Neuroscientist and Professor Jim Fallon has been studying the brains of psychopathic killers. He has developed three factors based on analyzing a plethora of brains to determine how psychopathic killers come to be. What this lecture helps open for exploration is why places with a small amount of violence stay that way, and violent places continue to produce killers.…
The aspect of a healthy brain versus an unhealthy or injured brain is immense, not just in the view of mental interactions but also the physical side of it as well. The picture of the injured brain looks different to the picture of the healthy brain. It looks deformed and also some indications of a subdural hematoma. How this could affect daily life…
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Concussions is a minor traumatic brain injury that may occur when the head hits an object. Every year about 2 million people are assessed in the emergency room after sustaining a concussion (traumatic brain injury) and about 6 thousands of them die. Concussion has become very common in every level among young adults, soldiers and Athletes and is consider one of the most dangerous injuries. In recent years, concussions have been getting more attention from medical doctors, media and medical team trainers around the world due to the negative effects and impacts it causes. In each, articles writers used patients’ cases to understand concussion better and the treatments for each patient. This paper will explore a series of questions that lead…
As stated in a medical journal developed by a Rhode Island medical journal, these head injuries are now being looked at closer. The statistics from the article say that they’re over 100,000 reported concussion cases in student athletes ranging from high school to college football, along with a lengthy paragraph stating what the outcomes happen due to the effects of a concussion. Stating that frontal lobe development might slow down or stop entirely making simple problem solving skills and emotional control a lot harder on for the individual in life, due to this…
A lot of people now a days love watching their favorite sports team on television or going to watch them at stadiums or arenas. But sometimes when your favorite player gets injured, most don’t enjoy looking at that. Especially a blow to the head. The fan might see a physician run onto the field to check on the athlete or athletes who receive the injury. Physicians usually ask the players what day of the week it is or where they are. These are some ways they find out whether the athletes have a concussion or not. Participating in sports is a common cause of concussion. Concussions are caused from injuries such as sport injuries or vehicle accidents, that causes the brain to hit the inside of the skull. But, there are many ways to prevent concussions.…
A brain injury can have different effects, such as medical, physical, cognitive (mental), emotional and behavioral. Behavioral problems are usually the most hard to deal with because they can have effects on their success in rehab, but also their social relationships, marriage problems, family problems, educational goals, safety and their ability to live a happy and free life. Behavioral problems can range from personality changes to long-term difficulties controlling their emotions, failure to block or manage drive and impulses and having control over themselves. In my report I will inform you on people with brain injuries, their families, and caregivers about the kinds of behavioral problems they may encounter and offer ways to confront those problems.…