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Brain Trauma Manifests Itself As Emotional And Cognitive Impairments
It is believed that in the time span of a year almost ten million Americans are thought to suffer from some amount of head injury and nearly a fifth of them sustain brain injury. The brain may be harmed through blunt trauma to the head even in instances when the blow has failed to leave an obvious external injury.
Damage to the brain may include physical injuries such as sensory or speech impairment, headaches, paralysis or seizure disorders, and loss of emotional control or getting agitated for no apparent reason. Brain trauma can be seen in the form of emotional as well as cognitive impairments and overcoming such a condition can prove to be quite challenging. Such "invisible" harm to the brain is a real as well as sometimes-devastating injury that requires receiving medical treatment.
Progesterone Has Proved An Able Ally In Treating This Condition
In their efforts to treat patients suffering from brain trauma, doctors have found an unexpected ally in the hormone progesterone. This hormone, the doctors found, was safe to administer patients suffering brain trauma and provided them with a means to survive moderate head injuries as compared to those that were given a placebo.
The serious effects of brain trauma that is consequent to receiving a brain injury such as a gunshot wound or a blow to the head during a football game may result in slight dizziness, coma or even death. Progesterone can be used in helping brain trauma patients, and the progesterone receptors are widely distributed in the central nervous system which, it is believed makes it more helpful in treating brain trauma. When given progesterone, brain trauma patients were more likely to have better neurological outcomes.
The Brain trauma Foundation has made it its mission to improve the outcome of traumatic brain injury for patients throughout the United States. They believe that brain damage does not occur in all instances at the moment of impact, but rather evolves over the ensuing days as well as hours after initial injury and manifests itself in the form of swelling. Mostly, secondary damage can be controlled with the help of scientific, evidence-based guidelines that have been developed by the Brain trauma Foundation.
To further the cause of better brain trauma treatment, the Brain trauma Foundation has a number of programs that help in the clinical treatment of such patients and these include Emergency Medical Services Program, The Traumatic Brain Injury Lunchtime Lecture Series, and New York State Quality Improvement Program for Traumatic Brain Injury. Through such programs, the future as far as its treatment is concerned, certainly looks a lot rosier than before.
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