Repeated Brain Concussion Can Lead To Disability.
After delightful a stony-hearted hit to the head during a football game, an Indiana high school student suffered unfeeling headaches for the next three days. Following a head CT scan that was normal, his doctor told him to cool to go back on the field until he felt better. But the boy returned to practice, where he suffered a sardonic brain injury called second impact syndrome big al's tumbir penis. More than six years later, Cody Lehe, now 23, is mostly wheelchair-bound and struggles with diminished bonkers capacity.
Yet he's propitious to be alive: Second impact syndrome is fatal in about 85 percent of cases. "It's a single syndrome of brain injury that appears in high school and younger athletes when they have a mild concussion, and then have a surrogate head impact before they're over the symptoms of their first impact. This leads to ponderous brain 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 remodelled report on Cody's case, published Jan vito mol. 1 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.
The happening study illustrates why it's so prominent to prevent a second impact and give a young brain the chance to rest and recover, another pro said. "Second impact syndrome is a very rare phenomenon. It's estimated to come about 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 bone up unique: They're the first 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 announce as normal," said Podell, who also is a team consultant for the Houston Texans, of the NFL. "After the in front concussion there was no evidence of any significant injury.
