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What is Brain Injury?

Brain injury can be a devastating disability, and given the brain’s complexity and the differences in the types, locations, and extent of damage, the effects of a brain injury can be wide and varied. Some occur immediately, and some may take days or even years to appear.

The most common after effects of undiagnosed concussion and head trauma are memory issues, drug and alcohol dependency, anger outbursts family violence,road rage and criminality. Any one of the symptoms can alter or devastate a person’s life, and brain injury is made all the more difficult by the fact that it’s often hard to see and just as often misdiagnosed or dismissed as “personality problems” or a perceived mental disorder. But in fact, it is a serious and legitimate illness where sufferers deserve all the help and support they can get.

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The Human Brain

The human brain in an incredible thing! It’s one of the most complex and least understood parts of the human body, but science is making new advances every day that tell us more about the brain.

The average human brain is 5.5 inches wide and 3.6 inches high. When we’re born, our brains weigh about 2 pounds, while the adult brain weighs about 3 pounds.

The brain accounts for about 2% of your total body weight, but it uses 20% of your body’s energy!

It sends out more electrical impulses in one day than all the telephones in the world, and it’s estimated that the brain thinks about 70,000 thoughts in a 24-hour period.

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ER, Trauma Doctors Often Miss Diagnosis of Mild Brain Injury

By: MOON, MARY ANN
Publication: Family Practice News
Date: Tuesday, February 1 2000

WASHINGTON -- Many of the estimated 1.5 million Americans who sustain mild traumatic
brain injury each year are never diagnosed, Dr. Tova Alladice said at the annual meeting of
the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

"Mild traumatic brain injury is an epidemic in the United States, and fewer than 1 in 20
patients get the rehabilitation they need," said Dr. Alladice of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

Postconcussive symptoms, including headache, memory loss, and cognitive dysfunction, develop in 10%-15% of these patients and may be disabling, she noted.

To examine underdiagnosis of this condition, Dr. Alladice reviewed the medical records of 29 patients who were evaluated for head injury at a single urban trauma center. All of the subjects met criteria for mild traumatic brain injury: an abnormal result on the Glasgow Coma Scale plus the presence of confusion, amnesia, loss of consciousness, or focal neurologic deficits.

The subjects included 21 males and 8 females aged 15 to 75 years. They had sustained head injuries in falls (69%), car accidents (7%), pedestrian accidents (7%), assaults (3%), or unknown circumstances (14%), Dr. Alladice reported in a poster presentation.



 

 

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