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The Army Times this week ran article about concussion injuries which I found to be rather interesting. As it is a subscriber only article I will post excerpts.
"But something was wrong. In the weeks following the blast, Bradley began forgetting what other Marines had just told him. He struggled to handle more than one task at a time. Taste and smell disappeared. Worst of all, so did the name of his soon-to-be-born daughter, Addison. Bradley said he had to dig through letters from home to remember it.
He was eventually flown to a battlefield hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion — his second in the Iraq war and the third of his life. Bradley learned that what he thought was post-nasal drip was leaking spinal fluid.
By January, he was back at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Doctors told him his brain may never fully recover, and his career in the Marine Corps is in doubt."
And.
"The number of concussions keeps rising. Almost 30 percent of the patients admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., have brain injuries."
Link to the Brain Injury center.
http://www.dvbic.org/
http://www.vnis.com/story.cfm?textnewsid=1457
What is a concussion?
Concussions occur when a blow to the head jars the brain, triggering disorientation and sometimes more severe effects. Symptoms include loss of consciousness, trouble remembering, confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo, blurred or double vision, and ringing in the ears. Physicians determine the severity of a concussion by reviewing the length of time a person is disoriented, length of unconsciousness and amount of memory loss.
• Mild. Characterized by confusion and no loss of consciousness. Symptoms vanish in less than 15 minutes.
• Moderate. Confusion that lasts more than 15 minutes and loss of consciousness for less than five minutes.
• Severe. Loss of consciousness for more than five minutes. Symptoms, including amnesia, persist for more than 24 hours.
"But something was wrong. In the weeks following the blast, Bradley began forgetting what other Marines had just told him. He struggled to handle more than one task at a time. Taste and smell disappeared. Worst of all, so did the name of his soon-to-be-born daughter, Addison. Bradley said he had to dig through letters from home to remember it.
He was eventually flown to a battlefield hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion — his second in the Iraq war and the third of his life. Bradley learned that what he thought was post-nasal drip was leaking spinal fluid.
By January, he was back at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Doctors told him his brain may never fully recover, and his career in the Marine Corps is in doubt."
And.
"The number of concussions keeps rising. Almost 30 percent of the patients admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., have brain injuries."
Link to the Brain Injury center.
http://www.dvbic.org/
http://www.vnis.com/story.cfm?textnewsid=1457
What is a concussion?
Concussions occur when a blow to the head jars the brain, triggering disorientation and sometimes more severe effects. Symptoms include loss of consciousness, trouble remembering, confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo, blurred or double vision, and ringing in the ears. Physicians determine the severity of a concussion by reviewing the length of time a person is disoriented, length of unconsciousness and amount of memory loss.
• Mild. Characterized by confusion and no loss of consciousness. Symptoms vanish in less than 15 minutes.
• Moderate. Confusion that lasts more than 15 minutes and loss of consciousness for less than five minutes.
• Severe. Loss of consciousness for more than five minutes. Symptoms, including amnesia, persist for more than 24 hours.