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Severe Brain Trauma: Patients May Look Normal But May Act Abnormally
No two individuals are the same and nor are any two brain injuries the same. There are, in fact, many different types of injuries that can affect the brain which depends to a great deal on the type as well as amount of force that impacted the head. Severe brain trauma occurs when an outside force impacts the head with sufficient force to cause the brain to move within the skull or may cause the skull to break and directly hurts the brain. The brain will have been insulted and it is not degenerative or congenital by nature but severe brain trauma is a result of an external physical force that can diminish or alter the sate of consciousness of the patient.
Consequences Of Severe Brain Injury
The altered state of consciousness will cause impairment of cognitive abilities as well as impact physical functioning in the patient, and may also result in disturbing the behavior or emotional functioning in them. Such impairments may be temporary or permanent and could be partial or complete loss of function, or even psychosocial maladjustment.
A person suffering severe brain trauma should be examined immediately by a physician or go into emergency if the condition so warrants it. The brain may be the recipient of several different types of injuries which may affect different functions within the brain as well as various areas of the brain. The different types of brain injuries include diffuse axonal, concussion, contusion, coup-contrecoup, and second-impact syndrome as also penetration injury.
Severe brain trauma occurs when there is a prolonged unconscious state or coma that lasts for days on end, weeks or even months. In the case of coma, the patient is unable to be awakened from a state of unconsciousness. It is believed that each year as many as 700,000 people suffer severe brain traumatic injuries in North America, and almost one tenth of them are permanently disabled.
Severe brain trauma can be seen to affect a person when there is loss of consciousness in that person or a confused state that is characterized by uncertainty about time, date as well as location, and there may also be a loss of memory for the events surrounding the head injury.
The physical as well as behavioral effects of severe brain trauma pose a significant challenge to doctors for them to affect the patient's rehabilitation as well as restoring cognitive abilities which often concern caregivers, family members as well as prospective employers the most. The patient of severe brain trauma may look normal but may be unable to act normally, appropriately or be able to remember instructions well.
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