Traumatic brain injury

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The whole violent episode of a brain injury makes a person unique. Everyone is different so brain injury are different for everyone. Falls, gun shot wounds, sporting injuries, and car accidents, all can cause brain injuries. Really, anything that causes the head to jolt can cause brain injuries.

What effects one person may not affect another person. Such as a car accident, one person may hit there head on the dash board and the other person may have gotten jolted in their seat. The person who received the jolting maybe in worse shape than the person who hit their head on the dash board. The brain is situated in fluid and when the impact happens the brain hits against the hard skull and causes damage. This is called a contra coup injury where the brain hits the hard skull forward then to the back of the head. Remember everyone is different and experiences trauma different, so it could be they just got startled and they are fine. If not,  they may have to be in rehabilitation to learn to do things they used to do, but in most cases this isn’t the case. Then, if the brain is damaged it will start to swell because it is like other muscles in the body. If you get hit by a hammer in the shoulder it will expand and turn black and blue, until it is healed. You can put ice on it until it heals and whatever the doctor tells you to put on it. The brain on the other hand, it gets hit by the same hammer you can’t just put ice on it. It might swell and when it swells, it has no place to go because of the skull. That is why the doctor cuts out part of the skull so the brain can swell. If this doesn’t happen, you can die because of a hematoma where the brain literally crushes it self, against the skull. So when you have a brain injury, it is important to see a doctor, so they can examine whether you have a brain bleed or not.

When I was in high school I had a focal seizure, which meant I blacked out. I fell on the concrete and my head hit the pavement. Thank goodness I didn’t have a brain bleed, but it was good I went to the hospital anyways, so they could examine me.

In conclusion brain injuries make a person unique because someone can be in the same accident with a person have the same injury, but experience different outcomes. Everyone is so different and their brain is set up differently too. Falls, sporting injuries, car accidents, gun shot wounds, all cause brain injuries and no two injuries are the same. Thank you for reading.