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  2. Complications of traumatic brain injury - Wikipedia

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    Traumatic brain injury (TBI, physical trauma to the brain) can cause a variety of complications, health effects that are not TBI themselves but that result from it. The risk of complications increases with the severity of the trauma; [1] however even mild traumatic brain injury can result in disabilities that interfere with social interactions, employment, and everyday living. [2]

  3. Traumatic brain injury - Wikipedia

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    Traumatic brain injury may cause a range of serious coincidental complications that include cardiac arrhythmias [117] and neurogenic pulmonary edema. [118] These conditions must be adequately treated and stabilised as part of the core care. Surgery can be performed on mass lesions or to eliminate objects that have penetrated the brain.

  4. List of NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy

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    Although the symptoms of CTE can vary, it doesn't directly cause death but instead changes personality and behavior, making a person not feel like themselves anymore. [15] Players with CTE can become isolated from their friends. [16] Sometimes they become unable to tell a story, [17] carry on a conversation, [18] or recognize their loved ones. [19]

  5. Brain injury - Wikipedia

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    A common category with the greatest number of injuries is traumatic brain injury (TBI) following physical trauma or head injury from an outside source, and the term acquired brain injury (ABI) is used in appropriate circles to differentiate brain injuries occurring after birth from injury, from a genetic disorder (GBI), or from a congenital ...

  6. Head injury - Wikipedia

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    Brain injury can occur at the site of impact, but can also be at the opposite side of the skull due to a contrecoup effect (the impact to the head can cause the brain to move within the skull, causing the brain to impact the interior of the skull opposite the head-impact). While impact on the brain at the same site of injury to the skull is the ...

  7. 16 Ways People Survived Before Social Security - AOL

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    Enacted in 1935, Social Security has been one of the most successful programs in U.S. history. Many times, elderly Americans essentially had to rely on the kindness of others to keep them afloat.

  8. Category:People with traumatic brain injuries - Wikipedia

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    This category is for people who have experienced traumatic brain injuries and did not die of it, either as an immediate or near-immediate result. The distinction is whether the individual survived long enough to manifest behavioral alterations or impairment. Over time, they may or may not have appeared to completely recover from the injury.

  9. Injury in humans - Wikipedia

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    More severe injuries to the brain cause moderate TBI, which may cause confusion or lethargy, or severe TBI, which may result in a coma or a secondary brain injury. TBI is a leading cause of mortality. [47] Approximately half of all trauma-related deaths involve TBI. [12] Non-traumatic injuries to the brain cause acquired brain injury (ABI).

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