Cerebral Concussions Essay

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Brain “Bruises” (Cerebral Contusions) One of the most common and by far the most unrecognized injuries is that of a bruise. Simply, the damaging or breaking of blood vessels resulting in the swelling and or rupturing of a blood vessel. Bruises occur all over our bodies. We bruise our bones, our organs, yes, including your skin, and we even bruise our brains. The brain is comprised of incredibly soft and delicate tissue protected by very few elements, the meninges, dura matter, and the skull; which are tough rigid structures in comparison (classic.muhealth.org). When the brain strikes the skull or dura matter due to forceful impact, and cerebral contusion may occur. Making your brain slosh around so greatly in order to make it crash against the casing of the skull might seem hard to do, when in actuality it is quite common and easy. Contusions may occur after a collision with another person or object, say in a sport, like hockey players ramming each other, or football players tackling one another. Finally, one other common misadventure that may cause a contusion is whiplash, a car accident, and a roller coaster ride. Diagnosing or discovering a brain contusion, cerebral contusion, is most accurately diagnosed by running a computed tomography (CT) scan or a magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI). A contusion is simply the bruising of the brain, which in itself is considered a traumatic brain injury, which can lead to other traumatic brain injuries from something as minor, yet still severe, as a concussion to dyer states such as comas. In a study put together by the New York Presbyterian Hospital, it was noted that over one million people suffer from minor traumatic brain injuries yearly, and a separate figure of about 230,000 people with traumatic brain injuries are hospitalized yearly, and of this figure, nearly 99,000 will show a lasting disability due to the brain

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