Traumatic Brain Injury

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Traumatic Brain Injury
Your kitten is on the kitchen counter. She is about to step onto a hot stove. You have only seconds to act. Accessing the signals coming from your eyes, your brain quickly calculates when, where, and at what speed you will need to dive to intercept her. Then it orders your muscles to do so. Your timing is perfect and she's safe. No computer can come close to your brain's awesome ability to download, process, and react to the flood of information coming from your eyes, ears, and other sensory organs (“Your Amazing Brain”). The human brain is the most vital organ in a human body and allows you to do everything that you do. Damaging of the brain can cause permanent effects to you including paralyzation of the human body. It is critical that we try and protect the human brain as much as possible. Brain injuries leave everlasting effects on humans; people need to be aware of what treatments are used on brain injuries, how they occur, and the importance of the brain.
Head injuries are a rapidly growing issue within the United States today. Almost every sport player faces the fact that they may end up with a head injury at any given point in a game or even practice. These injuries will mainly consist of either minor, moderate, or severe concussions which overtime can leave a harmful and everlasting effect on that person. There are multiple different types of scans and tests used on head/brain injuries to help determine the type of injury and the extent of the injury whether it be mild or extremely critical. Given the extremity of the results produced by the tests, the doctors will provide you with the processes you will need to fully recover from the injury you sustained. However, some brain injuries can leave o...

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...o overcome which will make them uneasy in their life and will frustrate them because they don’t remember a lot of what they knew previously.

Work Cited
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“How Many People Have TBI?” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. USA.gov, March 27, 2013. Web. 10 November 2013.
“Mild Brain Injury and Concussion.” Brain Injury Association of America. ReMed, n.d. Web. 10 November 2013.
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