Repeated Brain Concussion Can Lead To Disability

Repeated Brain Concussion Can Lead To Disability.
After taking a stark hit to the principal during a football game, an Indiana high school student suffered severe headaches for the next three days. Following a point CT scan that was normal, his doctor told him to time to go back on the field until he felt better. But the boy returned to practice, where he suffered a devastating understanding injury called second impact syndrome. More than six years later, Cody Lehe, now 23, is mostly wheelchair-bound and struggles with diminished screwy capacity.

Yet he's fortunate to be alive: Second effect syndrome is fatal in about 85 percent of cases. "It's a unique syndrome of wisdom injury that appears in high school and younger athletes when they have a mild concussion, and then have a more recent head impact before they're over the symptoms of their first impact. This leads to massive perceptiveness swelling almost immediately," said Dr Michael Turner, a neurosurgeon at Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and co-author of a fresh report on Cody's case, published Jan. 1 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

The lawsuit study illustrates why it's so noted to prevent a second impact and give a young brain the chance to rest and recover, another proficient said. "Second impact syndrome is a very rare phenomenon. It's estimated to occur about five times a year in the country," said Kenneth Podell, a neuropsychologist and co-director of the Methodist Concussion Center in Houston.

So "What makes this bookwork unique: They're the premier ones to in point of fact have a CT scan after the first hit. What they were able to show is that the first CT scan was read as normal," said Podell, who also is a side consultant for the Houston Texans, of the NFL. "After the first concussion there was no witness of any significant injury.

And then following the second one is when they ran into all of the problems". During the Friday night game, Cody told a teammate the word go hit was the hardest he had ever taken and his head hurt and he felt dazed. But he downplayed symptoms to his parents, coaches and trainer. "I consider he was telling them what he was telling us," his mother, Becky, said. "In those days, to have a concussion, if you weren't vomiting or inferior to go to catnap or have blurred vision or all that kind of stuff, then you didn't have a concussion. He didn't have any of those symptoms; other than the headache, the whole shooting match else was OK.

And he told them, 'I just need to go home and lie down and I'll be all right". The broken headaches, however, were bad enough that he finally asked to see a doctor. "The water did say, 'Your scan is fine, but anytime you have a headache like that you probably shouldn't play,'" Becky recalled. "It was the sooner week of sectionals, and we won the first round. Cody was the captain, so he said, 'I'm not current to stay on the sidelines. I've had headaches feel attracted to this before. And if the scan says I'm fine, I'm playing.'"

The follow-up wrong occurred during Tuesday afternoon practice. "The second hit, which was very, very minor; we're even unwilling to call it a 'hit' because it was a really light practice, and they weren't even in full pads. It was just big-hearted of shoulder brushing and he was down". Turner said, "After his second impact, he says, 'I real feel bad,' and went to the side and said, 'I can't feel my legs,' and collapsed. That repeat is incredibly common in most of the case reports of this".

During Cody's hospitalization, he had complications including kidney failure, sepsis and pneumonia. It was 98 days before he came home. Today Cody has a great have a funny feeling that of humor but struggles in other ways. "His reminiscence is terrible. His long-term is still there - if he met you once, he remembers you - but the short-term is very bad and it's actually hard to build on things when you can't remember what you did 10 to 15 minutes ago".

Cody has worked his practice up to six minutes on a treadmill, and can stand up and walk, but he needs someone by his side because his surplus is poor. From this case other parents "can take away that this concussion stuff is serious - it's not malingering. This is why we have results testing and - all that stuff about keeping athletes out - because of the frightened of this penis enlargement drugs in devrek. In July 2012, an Indiana law went into effect mandating that squiffy school student athletes suspected of having a concussion or head injury be removed from move and not return until they have been evaluated by a health care provider and given written clearance.