Trying to incorporate minor head injuries into studies is often more difficult than making a study of severe head injuries, doctors in many different areas note. Death and very severe injuries are noted by hospital records. When a minor head injury occurs with other more serious injuries, the head injury…
Derek Boogaard, a 28-year-old NHL player, was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment by his two brothers, unconscious, but not breathing. It was too late to get him to a hospital and he died there, sources told reporters. Investigators were unable to find any signs of foul play, they did…
Welterweight Brian Foster suffered a brain hemorrhagewhich results in him being out of his UFC 129 fight against Sean Pierson. The 27-year-old fighter posted the announcement two weeks ago on his Twitter account. The Ontario Athletic Commission commissioned an MRI sixty days prior to the bout according to a friend.…
Safety features in vehicles contribute a great deal to preventing head injuries, doctors have learned. Such factors can be the difference between safety and a debilitating or even fatal injury. The windshield of a car is a big safety consideration. When made out of materials like laminated glass, it can…
The symptoms of bTBI (explosive blast traumatic brain injury) can actually be very subtle, doctors tell patients. Sometimes, there is no outward sign of brain injury until certain symptoms begin to arise, like headaches, vertigo, or short-term memory loss. Because of this, victims of bTBI should be evaluated by a…
Physicians currently do not have many distinctions between explosive blast traumatic brain injury (bTBI), closed head traumatic brain injury (cTBI) and penetrative traumatic brain injury (pTBI). The military also uses the same criteria to assess such injuries as civilians. A 1993 definition from the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee of…
The way surgeons deal with shrapnel or bone fragments in the brain has changed since the days of Korea or Vietnam, doctors tell reporters. It was once the standard to remove every last fragment of bone or any other foreign body, so the brain would have a lower risk of…
In the matter of fatalities due to head injuries, New York Brain Injury Lawyers have learned that motor vehicle accidents are the vast majority of cases. In the United States, fire arms and unintentional falls come a distant second and third. The motor vehicle deaths were more common among young…
Many young people love to go sledding especially when school is out and they can have loads of fun in the park. However, parents have to make sure that their kids are safe when it comes to sledding. In the past, it has been the reason for many emergency room…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is now a well-defined clinical syndrome, according to New York Brain Injury Lawyers. The 2000 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision states that some patients who experience life-threatening events might well feel intense fear or helplessness which becomes PTSD. Victims…