Brain trauma can result in a catastrophic injury. About 21% of traumatic injuries to the brain are the result of sports injuries. There are more than 775,000 children/teens treated for sports related injuries. In 2011, there was 36,925 hospital visits just from cheerleading injuries, 5.5% of these were from concussions. Cheerleading is eighth most dangerous sport in America, which is above football! From 1982-20All star cheerleading is when cheer teams compete against each other. A typical cheer
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Military Reserve, Retirees, Family Members and Children. This establishment provides social services in the areas of individual counseling, group counseling, family counseling, diagnoses, medical evaluation boards (Military members), Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), disorder testing, just to name a few. This organization works closely with various establishments off-post in order to have a cohesive plan of treatment on and off-post. I interviewed Ms. Sue Scott
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Traumatic brain injury every year, resulting to concussion trauma (Fowler & McCabe, n.d). Most of these people are children under the age of 14 years. The measurement of the severity of this brain trauma is through the establishment of the duration when the conscious is lost, the alteration of mental status like confusion, as well as in posttraumatic amnesia. The duration between the time of the trauma and the research study This study in a follow up of 30 years after the brain injury shows that
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person a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This scale does have its limitations when it comes to its use in pediatrics, but it continues to be a great method of estimating severity of TBI. There now is a pediatric version of the GCS that has been altered to accommodate the different ages in children (Pediatric Care Online). This article performed a study to see if there is any correlation between a pediatric patients GCS score and later cerebral atrophy after a traumatic brain injury. Protection of Human
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sensory and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury, illness or disease” (Farlex, 2012). Many doctors will prescribe rehabilitation services after a patient has suffered through an amputation, neurological issues, a variety of orthopedic injuries, spinal cord injuries, stroke or other traumatic brain injuries. Patients can be treated in either an inpatient or outpatient setting. This normally depends on the severity of their injury or illness. A patient who has suffered a stroke, for example
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implement rules on having just 2 personal fouls per player to limit concussions. This will take effect in the future years. They are also thinking about putting a timeline on when players can return to play after they have gained the ok to return to game form. A concussion is a type of brain injury. It's the most minor form. Technically, a concussion is a short loss of normal brain function in response to a head injury. But people often use it to describe any minor injury to the head or brain. Most of
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proposed a link between these cognitive, emotional, and physical manifestations and CTE. In addition to athletes, soldiers have become another group of concern being that many are returning from the battlefield and have brain injuries along with blast trauma causing closed head injury. This disorder is characterized by physiological and neurological changes in the brain, including the protein Tau. This protein builds up in places of the brain where it should not be and also forms clumps around the brain
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Special Education Resources Special Education Foundations and Framework UNV-529N Dr. Mendez March 26, 2014 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Special Education Resources The national center for learning disabilities website. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.ncld.org/ The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides resources and details on the different types of learning disabilities in both children and adults. They are dedicated to providing an opportunity to an
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According to Merriam-Webster, trauma is defined as a serious injury or wound to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent; a very difficult or unpleasant experience that causes a person to have mental or emotional disturbances, usually for an extended period of time. There are many types of trauma that can affect a child’s development, specifically neural development. One pervasive form of trauma to children is Shaken Baby Syndrome. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a simple descriptive for a disturbing
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praying... 30th Annual International Association for Human Caring Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina~The Carolina Inn~April 6-9, 2008.(1992) attributes of caring, the survey’s questions were designed to explore the usefulness of the portfolio as a personal expression of living caring. Results revealed study participants strongly agreed or
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