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.…
Most head injuries are caused by contact or acceleration/deceleration forces, or a combination of those factors, according to experts. Contact injuries such as skull fractures, extradural hematomas, laceration/contusion-related subdural hematomas and contusions, come about when the head strikes or is struck by an object. These injuries are only sustained by…
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), according to medical studies. The military also uses the same criteria to assess such injuries as civilians. A 1993 definition from the Mild Traumatic…
A twenty-six year old man from Ballyvessey Green is denying the charges of murdering and causing grievous bodily harm with intent in regards to his son’s death in September of 2008. The baby boy, whose age was not given in the report, passed away at Royal Hospital after going to…
Boyzone star Mikey Graham, confronted a man at his home, and allegedly hit him so hard that he was left with swelling in the brain. The 22-year-old was told by doctors that he was extremely lucky that he hadn’t received worse injuries. The head injury he did receive was described…