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Here's what to do if you hit your head really hard, have a concussion, and what to do if you think you have a concussion.
In the wake of Bob Saget's tragic death from an accidental head trauma, a doctor shares what you need to know about head injuries. What to do after you hit your head — and when to seek medical ...
A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning. [8] Symptoms may include headache, dizziness, difficulty with thinking and concentration, sleep disturbances, mood changes, a brief period of memory loss, brief loss of consciousness; problems with balance; nausea; blurred vision; and mood changes.
Hey, we might throw our head back for good measure too, to keep blood from dripping down on our clothes. The whole ordeal may earn us an A+ for effort (and dramatics), but there’s an easier ...
A penetrating head injury, or open head injury, is a head injury in which the dura mater, the outer layer of the meninges, is breached. [1] Penetrating injury can be caused by high-velocity projectiles or objects of lower velocity such as knives, or bone fragments from a skull fracture that are driven into the brain.
While impact on the brain at the same site of injury to the skull is the coup effect. If the impact causes the head to move, the injury may be worsened, because the brain may ricochet inside the skull causing additional impacts, or the brain may stay relatively still (due to inertia) but be hit by the moving skull (both are contrecoup injuries).
Participants of the skullbreaker challenge carry out the challenge by working as a group of three; one person stands in the middle, usually on a hard surface, while the other two stand on either side of them, and strike the central participant's legs with a sweeping kick as the central participant jumps, so that they fall to the ground [3] and ...
The comedian died last month of a head injury that he evidently thought was mild. We ask experts how to tell when a bump on the head is more dangerous than it seems. Bob Saget's death calls ...