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“If you put enough stress on your back, 10,000 pounds on your back, it doesn’t matter how strong your back is. It’s going to break. The brain is the same way. It can only take so much stress. A broken back 1xbet online games login not seem like a reassuring analogy, but at least it addresses the shame that my patients so often feel. ‘The brain can’t just change the channel, like a TV remote,’ I tell them. Why do people expect their brains to be endlessly pliable, to be able to heal rapidly and perfectly after such traumas? Perhaps it’s because a mental injury is invisible. For my patients, the trauma isn’t something that happens to you. It is you.” -- “Treating Wounds you Can’t See,” Linda Blum, The Washington Post, June 29, 2008, as cited in Patricia P. Driscoll and Celia Straus in Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts: Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain 1xbet online games login and PTSD

Public awareness of traumatic brain 1xbet online games login (TBI) has arisen with the widespread phenomena of head injuries for those fighting wars abroad. What many don’t realize is that TBI occurs based on a number of head injuries—based on falls, motor vehicle accidents, assaults, and other common every-day factors.

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Emergency care should be sought right away whenever a person who has suffered a fall or impact to the head experiences convulsions, weakness or numbness in the hands or feet, vomits repeatedly, or has slurred speech. (Children’s symptoms 1xbet online games login involve the refusal to eat, listlessness and crankiness, altered sleep patterns, altered school performance, and a loss of interest in favorite toys or activities.)

At-Risk Groups

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Moderate brain injury involves the loss of consciousness for 20 minutes to 6 hours. Severe brain injury results in a loss of consciousness of greater than 6 hours and 1xbet online games login result in permanent neurobiological damage, with lifelong challenges (to varying degrees). How serious a brain injury is depends on the severity of the initial injury, the medical interventions taken, the quality of physiological recovery, and other factors.

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Resources

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