Archive | August, 2005

Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

1. August 2005

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Those who sustain concussion, hemorrhage, significant loss of consciousness, coma, and/or skull fractures are typically diagnosed as having sustained a “moderate” to “severe” traumatic brain injury.

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What is “Mild” Traumatic Brain Injury?

1. August 2005

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Historically, words such as “mild”, “moderate”, and “severe” were utilized to define brain injury. For many years, these terms were utilized based on duration of loss of consciousness. Today, it is universally accepted that brain injury can occur without loss of consciousness,without direct external trauma to the head, and without positive findings on CT, MRI, or [...]

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Frequency of Traumatic Brain Injury: You Are Not Alone

1. August 2005

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If trauma-caused brain injury were instead disease-resulting, it would be labeled a “plague of epidemic proportions. Only slightly exaggerated, the fact remains that the frequency of traumatic brain injury is extremely high.

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