Category : Brain Injuries

Study Indicates Children with a Severe Brain Injury May Have Poor Recovery Levels

January 31st, 2012
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Children with a severe brain injury may have a much more difficult journey back to complete recovery.

According to a study by Australian researchers, children with a severe brain injury may have a much more difficult journey back to complete recovery, when compared to people who have suffered a mild injury.

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Female Sex Hormone Progesterone Believed to Help Treat Brain Injury

January 19th, 2012
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Scientists are probing the efficacy of the female sex hormone progesterone in the treatment of persons with traumatic brain injury.

Scientists are probing the efficacy of the female sex hormone progesterone in the treatment of persons with traumatic brain injury.  Recently, trials into the use of progesterone to treat brain injury commenced at 5 hospitals in the United Kingdom.

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Brain Injury Takes an Emotional Toll on Marriage, Expectations About Brain Injury Recovery

January 15th, 2012
Brain Injury Recovery

The effect of a brain injury on marriage has not been studied in depth

The New York Times has a moving account of how persons who have suffered a brain injury and their spouses struggle to regain the quality of their relationship.  While many marriages survive after a TBI, the injury takes its toll, diminishing the quality of the relationship and forcing couples to reassess their expectations about the brain injury recovery.

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Former NFL Players File Lawsuit over Drug Use for Treatment of Brain Injuries

December 18th, 2011
Treatment of Brain Injuries

The lawsuit has been filed by 12 former players of the National Football League

At first glance, this brain injury lawsuit is like the several that have been filed recently against the National Football League, alleging that the League was aware of the risk from concussions affecting football players, but did not share information about those risks with players.  However, this new lawsuit is breaking new ground, in that it also accuses the League of using a potentially harmful drug in the treatment of brain injury among football players.

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Brain Injury in Kids May Lead to Headaches for Months after

December 18th, 2011
Brain Injury in Kids

The researchers monitored more than 400 children who had suffered a brain injury that required treatment in an emergency room

Brain injury in kids may be the reason to suffer from headaches for months after the injury.  These children are more likely to suffer headaches for as long as a year after the injury compared to those children who suffer body injuries.  Those results are not exactly surprising to San Diego brain injury lawyers, but they do confirm the complexity involved in treating brain injuries in children.

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Study Confirms Brain Tsunamis in Patients with Severe Brain Injury

December 16th, 2011
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Study confirms brain tsunamis in patients with severe brain injury

Earlier research has indicated that persons, who have suffered a severe brain injury, may suffer from ‘cortical spreading depolarizations’ or brain tsunamis.  A new study confirms this fact.

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Probiotics May Help in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

December 8th, 2011
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Probiotics may help in the treatment of traumatic brain injury

A new study finds that probiotics supplied to a person with traumatic brain injury could help in the process of recovery, and improve patient outcomes.  The study was conducted by researchers at the Third Military Medical University School of Nursing and the North Sichuan Medical College and Hospital in China.

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Now, Studies Link Soccer to Severe Brain Damage

December 1st, 2011
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Soccer "heading" has been known to cause brain damage

Soccer players who frequently head the ball, or use their heads to hit the ball, could be at a high risk of experiencing severe brain damage.  According to a new study, even soccer players who hit a ball with their head just a few times a day may be at a high risk of brain injury.

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Researchers Develop Device for Communication with Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

November 16th, 2011
Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

It is possible to communicate with some persons in a vegetative state

With the help of a new device, doctors may be able to communicate with traumatic brain injury patients who have been left in a vegetative state.  A team of UK researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge have developed a device that can be used to measure electrical activity in the brain as a means of detecting the level of consciousness of the patient.  The researchers have published their findings in The Lancet journal.

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Increase in Number of Concussions in Children

October 16th, 2011
Concussions in Children

Children have suffered concussions while engaged in sports and other recreational activities

Increase in number of concussions in children is reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There was a staggering increase in the number of children and adolescents who were rushed to hospital emergency rooms with concussions over an eight-year period ending in 2009.

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