Mending With A Brain Injury Expert

By Pamela Hughes


The human form is ideal for most things. Human endurance is actually off the charts, especially in comparison to other animals. Sure, other animals may be faster, a lot faster, and others may be stronger, but none of them can keep on going quite like humanity can. But the human body has some quirks. The mind actively holds back the majority of human strength, since the body is not durable enough to endure such strain and exertion. There is also the matter of the brain, far and away the most delicate part of the human body. When a brain is hurt, a brain injury expert is required.

Unfortunately, neurological trauma is among the most comprehensive maladies that can befall a person. The thing about the brain is that it does not mend, not fully. Skin and organs can heal and with time, it will be like the injury never happened. That is not the case with the mass of gray matter house inside the skull. Once an injury occurs, it is always a little more broken than it was before, the cells do not replicate as they do in the skin.

Too much brain trauma can result in death. But those that do not die immediately will be worse off. The ability to speak and the use of fine motor skills are usually among the first to go when the trauma starts to pile up. Then there is the loss of memory. A person may stare at the faces of all the people they have ever cared about but may see nothing more than a group of strangers.

Blunt force trauma is a common means of injury. The skull is a thick mass of bone. But the mind housed inside of it a soft mass of gray matter. The more a person is hit in the head, the less that mass of gray matter is able to function. People who play contact sports like football and hockey suffer high rates of neurological injury. Curiously, studies have shown that mixed martial artists, purveyors of a full contact combat sport, suffer traumatic injuries at significantly lower rates.

The first step is admitting that there is a problem. Oftentimes people, especially men, will ignore symptoms and hope they go away on their own. Spoiler alert, but they never do. They just get worse and worse, and they cannot be stopped or reversed. The only thing that can be done to them is to slow them down.

But that help is not going to come cheap. Neurology is an extremely advanced version of medicine. The treatments can be at the bleeding edge of science. There are conventional treatment options, but they are going to cost a pretty penny as well. Not to mention that cost of the post treatment care.

A doctor has to go through medical school. After that is an internship. A doctor may then study under a specialist and learn from them.

Professional players, especially professional football players, are often put in touch with specialists. However, finding a good neurologist will not be as simple as simply searching for one online. See a general physician and ask for a recommendation. Most hospitals will generally have a neurologist on staff.

Scientists speculate that humans evolved to trade physical strength for higher brain function. But that function is a delicate thing. It must be protected.




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