Posts Tagged ‘Brain Injury’

Brain Injury

Brain injury or brain damage is the pathological condition wherein brain cells are destroyed. This degeneration of brain cells may result from a variety of situations or conditions, diseases and injuries?usually to the head. These damages to the brain could be caused by a prolonged shortage of oxygen supplied to the brain, certain infections, trauma [...]

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Anoxic Brain Injury

Anoxic brain injury is a type of brain damage brought about by the absence of oxygen distributed to the brain. It is a condition wherein there is no or little oxygen introduced into the tissues of the brain even if blood flow is sufficient. This condition is usually caused by an interruption of the respiratory. [...]

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Types of and Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is not a disease it is a condition. Cerebral refers to the brain and palsy means weakness or lack of muscle control. In addition, cerebral palsy is not a single problem, but a complex disease in which virtually all brain cell types could need repair. Approximately 90 percent of all [...]

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Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Short Primer

The location and severity of a brain injury may cause the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. The brain continues to develop until the late teens, helping injuries occurring in childhood to heal more rapidly. In major cases of brain injury the most serious results can be permanent disability, speech problems, mental handicaps, and worse, [...]

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Health: Positive Attitudes, Affirmations, & Actions for Overcoming Your Health Challenges

Health Challenges like Diabetes, HIV, Heart Disease (mainly heart attacks), Stroke/CVA, COPD/Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Alzheimers, Kidney Disease, Septicemia/Systemic Infection, Liver Disease/Cirrhosis are diseases and disorders that require all the tools of heaven and earth to fight. Below are some poistive thinking techniques that are alternative medicine and alternative healing for your mind.
Beginning your healing journey:
1. [...]

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Cerebral Palsy

In the case of Cerebral Palsy there is no one cause of this severe condition. In the majority of cases and average of seventy percent, it results from brain injury before the child is even born this is known as congenital cerebral palsy this would be present from birth but may take months even years [...]

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Narcolepsy - The Management of a Common Sleep Disorder

Narcolepsy, a chronic and commonly diagnosed sleep disorder, affects over a quarter of a million Americans each year (approximately one person in every two thousand). Characterized by the body’s inability to properly regulate sleep, narcolepsy’s most obvious symptoms can include cataplexy (involuntary loss of muscle control), “automatic” behaviors (performing regular, mundane tasks by rote), [...]

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Brain Concussions in Sports: What’s the Fuss?

If you’re having difficulty understanding what a brain concussion is, and how your son or daughter’s head-injury affects their further participation in sports, then you’re in good company. The nature and effects of concussions are still poorly understood by many athletes, parents, coaches, news reporters and, to a certain extent, even the medical community. But [...]

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Prevent Brain Injury

One of the things that people often fear about getting older is the possibility that they might get Alzheimer?s disease, a terrible condition that destroys the mind by destroying the brain.
Many of us shudder at the thought that if we get Alzheimer?s, we will lose our ability to plan and think, or even to remember [...]

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What causes ADHD

Parents of children with ADHD often blame themselves for it. But studies show little evidence that ADHD is caused by social factors or child-rearing methods, indicating instead that genetics and neurobiology are to blame. Environmental factors do not give rise to ADHD completely, but only influence the situation and level of impairment the person may [...]

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