Brain Injury Awareness and Concussions
Traumatic brain injury used to be associated with a blow to the head, but recent awareness of the injury brought by soldiers returning from wars indicates otherwise. Improvised Exploding Devices or IEDs may not touch a soldier, but the resultant pressure of the explosion can cause a sheering to the tissues in the brain. Regardless of how the injury is experienced the symptoms share a common factor; they interfere with the way the brain works. Neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Crecelius recently wrote an article on the prevention of concussions which are a type of traumatic brain injury. Brain injury can affect memory, judgment, reflexes, speech, balance and coordination. Even though a concussion cannot be seen keep an eye out for the symptoms which can show up days or weeks after the initial injury.
