martes, 8 de febrero de 2011

Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

DID YOU KNOW..... that a quarter of a million Americans are diagnosed with brain injury!?!?  :O


Brain injuries are really common, and they provide individuals suffering them with a variety of problems. There are three main types of brain injury. These are Contusions, Axonal Injuries and Bleeding. Contusions are those injuries that show bruising in the brain tissue. Axonal Injuries are those injuries that axons tear or break and this is severe, because axons send electrical impulses throughout the body, and if your suffer this type of injury, your are likely to have problems with your nervous system. Finally, bleeding is a type of brain injury that is known as a hemorrhage, and it affects blood flow and brain tissue. What all of these injuries have in common is that they provide trouble when it comes to managing ones feelings, ideas, reasoning, movement and speaking. This occurs, because as someone suffers from a brain injury, Neurons in the brain are affected. This evidently provides more inefficiency on how the brain normally works.
There are also Traumatic Brain injuries as well as Frontal and Temporal lobe injuries. Traumatic brain injuries are those injuries that occur when force is applied to the skull, eventually hurting any lobe which is compressed by the skull. Frontal and Temporal lobe injuries are those who affect the excecutive aspect such as analyzing, decision making, etc.


PICTURE CITATION: 
NY Minute Chats. Web. 8 Feb 2011. <http://www.blnotary.com/?p=1046>.

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