Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:58 am
The following are some recent articles on Truamatic brain Injury (TBI) as related to football injuries:
A recent article in the New Yorker Magazine: OFFENSIVE PLAY How different are dogfighting and football?, Malcolm Gladwell,October 19, 2009
Also in the New York Times: Concussion Trauma Risk Seen in Amateur Athlete, Alan Schwarz,October 21, 2009
Brain damage commonly associated with boxers and recently found in deceased N.F.L. players has been identified in a former college athlete who never played professionally, representing new evidence about the possible safety risks of college and perhaps high school football. As six former N.F.L. players who died young have been found with the condition, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, scrutiny has focused on the N.F.L. environment. This new case, an athlete who stopped playing after college, testifies more to the sport of football itself, said doctors involved in its discovery.
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In accident reconstruction we often see Truamatic brain injuries (TBI), many of the type classified as Diffuse axonal injury (DAI). DAI is the result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated, as may occur in auto accidents, falls, and assaults.
For further reading see digital snippets from the book Accidental Injury, Biomechanics and Prevention. (Click on contents and select section 'Brain-Injury Biomechanics')-Second Edition. Alan Nahum and John Melvin, Editors. Springer, New York,. 2002.
Also see Head Injury Criterion and the ATB
A recent article in the New Yorker Magazine: OFFENSIVE PLAY How different are dogfighting and football?, Malcolm Gladwell,October 19, 2009
Also in the New York Times: Concussion Trauma Risk Seen in Amateur Athlete, Alan Schwarz,October 21, 2009
Brain damage commonly associated with boxers and recently found in deceased N.F.L. players has been identified in a former college athlete who never played professionally, representing new evidence about the possible safety risks of college and perhaps high school football. As six former N.F.L. players who died young have been found with the condition, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, scrutiny has focused on the N.F.L. environment. This new case, an athlete who stopped playing after college, testifies more to the sport of football itself, said doctors involved in its discovery.
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In accident reconstruction we often see Truamatic brain injuries (TBI), many of the type classified as Diffuse axonal injury (DAI). DAI is the result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated, as may occur in auto accidents, falls, and assaults.
For further reading see digital snippets from the book Accidental Injury, Biomechanics and Prevention. (Click on contents and select section 'Brain-Injury Biomechanics')-Second Edition. Alan Nahum and John Melvin, Editors. Springer, New York,. 2002.
Also see Head Injury Criterion and the ATB