Traumatic Brain Injury Research Paper

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): it's a very complex injury that results with a broad spectrum of disabilities and complications. When a trauma happens to the head, it's either an object penetrating the skull, or other external mechanical force causes brain dysfunction like a violent blow to the head. It can be mild traumatic injury that only cause temporary dysfunction of brain cells. Severe traumatic injury may cause more serious consequences like bleeding, torn tissues, bruising and physical damage to the brain that results in long term complications or death. A brain traumatic injury is cannot heal like other injuries. And two brain injuries don't always share the same symptoms and complications. Each injury is unique and it's a functional healing when it comes to the brain injury. Symptoms may appear right away after the trauma and sometimes it takes weeks to appear.(1,2)
Consequences of TBI:
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Altered in consciousness: Coma, a person who's unconscious and unaware of anything and unable to response to any stimuli and that results from damage to all parts of the brain. Vegetative state, even though the person is unaware of his/her surroundings they may response to reflexes or make certain sounds or open their eyes and that results from damage to all parts of the brain. Minimally conscious state, a condition when there is an evidence of self-awareness or awareness of one's environment and it's a clue to greater recovery. Locked-in syndrome, it's when the person is aware and awake but cannot move or speak and only communicate by their eyes or blinking and results from limited damaged to the lower brain and brain stream. Brain death, when there is no measurable activity in the brain and it's