Brain Injuries

Brain injuries tend to be produced by horrible accidents leaving the person with a traumatic experience, but what is more traumatic is how their lives turn into a constant struggle to recover afterwards. This week we saw a video that taught me several things about brain injuries. It taught me that a traumatic brain injury is when force is applied to the skull and that there are three types of trauma: Contusion, which is like a bruise or sharp blow in the brain, Axonal injury, when the neurons get damaged, and Bleeding injury, which is when theirs bleeding inside the brain. This experiences take a long time to recover with rehabilitation programs and support groups. What I did know is that these damages affect our physical and mental states in a variety of ways. Some effects of brain injuries can be problems with emotion control, memory, eating, talking, among others. Another interesting fact is that the heeling of bones and production of testosterone can be affected by simply boxing because of the constant hitting on the head. It also damages your Pituitary gland, which I find rather interesting.