Brain Injuries

The first thing you should know about brain injuries is that the symptoms can be quite different from one injury to the next. It really depends on two main factors: Location and severity. What part of the brain was affected and how serious is the injury? For example,...

The brain is a powerful but delicate organ. Damage to the brain can easily result from blunt force trauma, violent motion or even oxygen deprivation. Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are capable of completely altering an individual's life. Brain injuries can cause a...

A car accident could leave you with all sorts of injuries. One that may result is a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It may help to learn what kind of TBIs people suffer in car accidents: 1. Concussion A concussion is a brain injury that occurs when the head suffers a...

Many injuries will fully heal when given the proper medical care. If you break your arm, most of the time, you’re going to be able to get a cast that will allow the bone to heal properly.  This is not always the case with traumatic brain injuries. Some healing may...

If you suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI), one thing to keep in mind is that you could have bleeding in or around your brain. For example, when there is bleeding between the skull and the brain tissue, it is known as a subdural hematoma. This means that there is...

Any kind of injury that changes the way you look or feel may feel catastrophic to your life, but what does it really mean to have a catastrophic injury? Are there only specific injuries that fall into this category, like spinal injuries or brain injuries, or can any...

The reason that motorcyclists wear helmets is that they help to prevent brain injuries. They can also help prevent skull fractures when the head strikes the ground in a crash. This is the same reason that football players and other athletes wear helmets. Even with a...

If you’ve never heard of an internal decapitation, you may be surprised to know that there are victims in auto accidents who have survived this terrifying condition. This injury occurs when the internal ligaments that connect the vertebrae of the spine to the skull...

Over the past few weeks, we've been posting about concussions in sports. Most student athletes will never "go pro," nor will they be featured on the box of a popular cereal brand. Most student athletes also don't have top-of-the-line protective gear or a team of...

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain has teamed up with a Maryland sports medicine clinic to encourage young athletes to make themselves aware of the dangers of concussions and for adults to monitor concussion symptoms. The drive to "play through the pain" in...