Concussion

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Collins, PhD, is executive and clinical director for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program and an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. However, other medications that may alter a patient’s cognitive function, sleep patterns, or mood are not advisable as they may mask symptoms of a concussion.

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine suggests an individualized approach for each patient and consideration of factors such as persistent symptoms, the number of lifetime concussions, previous prolonged recoveries from a concussion, and the perceived ease of sustaining a repeat concussion when deciding on continued athletic participation. Only in the past decade have the consequences of repeated head knocks become better understood, and the science is still catching up. In the end, Concussion is an all-too-sad reminder that America is no longer a land where “people play [ ] fair. Neurochemical and neurometabolic events" after an injury to the head result in an alteration of neurologic function.Patients with concerning signs or symptoms for more severe head injury may require continued hospital observation. Bouida W, Marghli S, Souissi S, Ksibi H, Methammem M, Haguiga H, Khedher S, Boubaker H, Beltaief K, Grissa MH, Trimech MN, Kerkeni W, Chebili N, Halila I, Rejeb I, Boukef R, Rekik N, Bouhaja B, Letaief M, Nouira S. It’s about one hour east of San Francisco and about forty-five minutes south of Sacramento, which is the capital of the state of California. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka “Iron Mike,” a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the greatest ever to play the game. Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student-athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing, but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

Shaken Brain is the resource patients and their families, friends, and caregivers need to understand how concussions occur, what to expect from healthcare providers, and what the long-term consequences may be. His keen knowledge of an athlete's mind-set, coupled with his expertise in the area of concussions, gave me the confidence to believe that he could help with my recovery. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is living with concussion/brain injury and also to family and friends of the victim. A helpful explanation of what a concussion is and isn’t is followed by a section in which Kutcher clears up the confusion in the minds of many between concussion (a term which, he says, should only be used to describe the injury or the immediate effect of the injury resulting from concussion forces transmitted to the head), post-concussion syndrome (symptoms patients experience for several months at a time when they are likely no longer concussed), and the problems former athletes, especially in contact sports, experience with their thinking, mood, and memory later in life, when they are no longer concussed, and the serious neurological condition they have as a result of playing sports is not itself a concussion and likely more the result of how often they were hit than their concussion history. Further radiographic investigation with an MRI is a consideration in patients with persistent post-concussive symptoms.From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. This condition is characterized by slow, progressive neurodegeneration due to repeated head trauma and tau protein deposition. The first half is by a professional, Dr Priyanka Pradhan and gives an inside account of the brain's functions and the perspective of a Neuropsychologist. 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. A graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a bachelor's degree in psychology and biology in 1991, Dr.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this comprehensive text remains a timely and major contribution to the literature that addresses the neuromechanisms, predispositions, and latest developments in the evaluation and management of concussive injuries. Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her sto The release of electrolytes through ion channel depolarization leads to a release of neurotransmitters and subsequent neurologic dysfunction.

If concussion or an mTBI are affecting you, there is much in this book to help and support your symptoms. Concussion shares both Michael’s and Frankie’s honest accounts of what this condition has meant for them. It was the repetition of blows to the head during practices and matches, commonly suffered by players in this contact sport. Concussion education should also focus on prevention, such as wearing safety belts and safety seats for children, using helmets for biking, motorcycle riding, skating, etc.Everything back home in Nigeria was about busting loose from the pettiness, the corruption, the wicked tendencies of man.