Latest Head injury Stories
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The risks of sports-related traumatic brain injuries among professional athletes is making national headlines. However, prevention should begin at childhood, especially among those involved in contact sports. "Each year, approximately 300,000 people in the United States experience sports-related concussions," said Leonardo Oliveira, M.D., Assistant Professor, UCF College of Medicine, who specializes in internal medicine and sports...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a head to head contest between the New Orleans Criteria and the Canadian CT Head Rules, the Canadian rules showed higher sensitivity and specificity in predicting neurosurgical intervention for mild head injury. The results of the study, conducted in Tunisia, were published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Prediction Value of the Canadian CT Head Rule and the New Orleans Criteria for Positive Head CT Scan and...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Concussions are a growing concern with athletes in all levels of sports. Professional athletes are at risk, as are school-age athletes and weekend warriors. Sports Reaction Center (http://www.srcpt.com), a sports physical therapy center that attracts amateur and professional athletes both locally and nationally, has a cutting-edge concussion management program designed to help its clients' current and long-term health and wellness. The...
CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As youth football and soccer seasons kick off on fields across the country this month, so should the awareness about the risk of concussions in youth athletics. Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers--the largest physical therapist owned and managed practice in the U.S.--stresses the importance of having adequately trained personnel on the sidelines who are prepared to make accurate diagnoses and informed decisions about players and concussions....
TADWORTH, England, August 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Gear star describes new charity support site as 'vital' Top Gear star Richard Hammond has given his backing to the launch of a new charity-funded website providing information and support to the parents of children with acquired brain injury (ABI). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120810/554260-a ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120810/554260-b ) The new website, called...
White children are more likely to receive cranial (head) CT scans in an emergency department following minor head trauma, compared with African-American or Hispanic children, a study published by researchers at UC Davis has found. The study findings do not indicate that CT (computed tomography) scans are underused in African-American and Hispanic children. Rather, the researchers suggested that white children may receive too many CT scans and thus may be exposed to unnecessary radiation....
The odds of undergoing cranial computed tomography (CT) among children with minor blunt head trauma who were at higher risk for clinically important traumatic brain injury did not appear to differ by race/ethnicity in a secondary analysis of a study of injured children, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. However, there may have been differences for children at intermediate or lowest risk. Traumatic...
CINCINNATI, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many children return to sports such as soccer, football, cross-country and volleyball when they return to school. Teri McCambridge, MD, clinical director of Sports Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, says preparation before the first day of practice is critical to help reduce the risk of injury. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110406/MM79025LOGO) According to the American Academy of Pediatrics,...
Hypothermia in trauma victims is a serious complication and is associated with an increased risk of dying. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care has found that the key risk factor was severity of injury. However, environmental conditions and medical care, such as the temperature of the ambulance or temperature of any fluids administered intravenously, also increased risk. A multicenter study, carried out by the emergency medical services of eight...
A study, performed in mice and utilizing post-mortem samples of brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease, found that a single event of a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can disrupt proteins that regulate an enzyme associated with Alzheimer's. The paper, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, identifies the complex mechanisms that result in a rapid and robust post-injury elevation of the enzyme, BACE1, in the brain. These results may lead to the development of a drug...
