Concussion

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Building on the work of Vaishnavi and Rao's best-selling book The Traumatized Brain, this guide is filled with practical information and tips for coping with concussion, injury from a stroke, and other brain injuries. This book is truly a guide that should be distributed to EVERY patient and caregiver managing a concussion or TBI from the very beginning. A] land where you d[o] honest work and work [ ] hard and harder still and because of your hard work you earn [ ] respect. Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told, Concussion is the stirring story of one unlikely man’s decision to stand up to a multibillion-dollar colossus, and to tell the world the truth. Therapists and neuropsychologists play a crucial role in managing a patient with severe symptoms or post-concussion syndrome.

Imaging modalities can be employed to rule out other injuries that may mimic the signs or symptoms of a concussion. He directs six clinical sites with more than 18,000 patient visits annually for concussion and related issues. Omalu’s David and Goliath battle with the National Football League over telling the truth about chronic traumatic encephalopathy.What Omalu discovered in Webster's brain--proof that Iron Mike's mental deterioration was no accident but a disease caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game--was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.

The release of electrolytes through ion channel depolarization leads to a release of neurotransmitters and subsequent neurologic dysfunction.

Second-impact syndrome (SIS) involves a repeat blow or injury to the head before the complete resolution of the initial concussion, resulting in usually rapid, severe swelling of the brain.

Concussion shares both Michael’s and Frankie’s honest accounts of what this condition has meant for them. Changes to glucose metabolism decreased cerebral blood flow, and mitochondrial dysfunction also occurs. Bob Cantu's new book, which he co-authored with sports journalist Mark Hyman, is just the latest in a slew of concussion books that I have read and reviewed over the past couple of years. The explosion of attention to sports concussions has many of us thinking about the addled brains of our football and hockey heroes.Management of a concussion requires an interprofessional team approach involving the patient, family members, coaches, therapists, athletic trainers, and medical providers (clinicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. Most patients (greater than 90%) diagnosed with a concussion do not have an associated loss of consciousness [7]; however, loss of consciousness is an important sign of a potentially serious head injury.

The heat in the courtroom is cranked way too high, an old boiler system, so the windows are cracked and you can hear the February wind whistle. While it has much to recommend it, I ultimately came away from reading the book disappointed at several pieces of advice it gives that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. The Sideline Concussion Assessment Tool 5 (SCAT5) has a comprehensive inventory for possible symptoms of a concussion. From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. NOTE: other restrictions can be a result of our security platform detecting potential malicious activity.Written for any young readers who’d like to know more about acquired brain injury, Tim-Tron’s story explains the condition by placing it in a world of mechanical marvels. But what are the real issues behind the headlines and the public outcry, and what can and should be done to save sport from itself? I recommend Shaken Brain to anyone interested in a deeper, nuanced understanding of concussion/mild TBI. Acceleration, deceleration, or rotation of the head result in acute axonal injury via disruption of neurofilament organization.