Scott Mrs. Skolny ENGL 11H 29 February 2016 Is Football a Death Wish? Is playing football really worth the risk of head injury? Playing the contact sport of football‚ going play by play with very intense and hard hitting plays of head to head contact‚ has got the attention of some about the level of safety the sport possesses. Playing football is not worth the risk of head injury‚ because the hits long term effects on your brain. An attention grabber for most is the recent uprising of CTE‚ which stands
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Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury 1.COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) : While severe and moderate traumatic head and brain injuries often mandate head CT‚ several clinical scales require specific criteria in determining the need for neuroimaging after a mild TBI. These include the New Orleans Criteria (NOC) and the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR).(45) Both are relatively straight forward and use seven criteria readily obtained in the setting and evaluation of mild TBI. A head-to-head comparison
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·Review· Combination treatment with chondroitinase ABC in spinal cord injury—breaking the barrier Rong-Rong Zhao‚ James W Fawcett Brain Repair Centre‚ University of Cambridge‚ UK Corresponding author: James W Fawcett. E-mail: jf108@cam.ac.uk © Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences‚ CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 After spinal cord injury (SCI)‚ re-establishing functional circuitry in the damaged central nervous
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Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Outline I. Introduction A. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health issue in the United States. B. TBI is caused by a bump‚ blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain C. TBI is generally categorized as mild‚ moderate or severe.
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hard to find any person that is not affected by a traumatic brain injury or stroke‚ whether they personally experienced the brain injury‚ or they know someone who was affected by a brain injury. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are any injuries to the brain caused by a range of bumps‚ jolts‚ and even penetrations‚ which have a negative impact on normal function in the brain. Concussions may be considered mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) because the people experiencing concussions have shorter periods
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10 boxers die in the ring each year. Boxers put their health and even their lives at stake every time they choose to compete in a boxing match ("Common Boxing Injuries & Prevention | iSport.com"). Short Term Injuries While boxing‚ injuries that can last anywhere from one day to a few months occur on a regular basis. Most short term injuries do
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Sports Injuries: An Annotated Bibliography Sports have been around since the olympics in 790 B.C.‚ yet only recently has the affects of these sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown
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brain to our body and vice versa. Injuries to the spinal cord often come with very severe symptoms. In Allen’s case a 30 feet fall is sure to bring many consequence’s. As mention Allen’s heart rate and blood pressure fall. Which might strike as odd. This is not the response that’s expected. This is most likely due to the type of injury. Spinal cord injuries can have some unique effects. Such conditions include neurogenic shock. Patients with spinal cord injuries can get this type of shock (Rob Orman)
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Phineas Gage is considered to be one of the severe brain injuries. Gage suffered from personality changes after the brain injury. Gage was injured when excavating rocks to create a path for railroad track. Gage and other employees were injured by rail roads during the construction work. Gage was later treated after the accident as he his brain had been damaged. The accident caused damaged to brain structures and doctors argued that Gage started behaving differently after the accident (Damasio‚ Grabowski
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DOI: 07/07/2015. This is a 55-year-old male scrap metal grader who sustained a work related injury on his right elbow‚ thoracic spine‚ cervical spine‚ and lumbar spine when he was ejected from a container bin. Patient is a diagnosed with cervical sprain‚ cervical radiculopathy‚ thoracic sprain‚ lumbar sprain‚ lumbar radiculopathy‚ right shoulder sprain‚ right wrist‚ and right hand sprain. MRI of lumbar spine without contrast dated 10/14/15 revealed T12 compression fracture‚ chronic; degenerative
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