Repeated Brain Concussion Can Lead To Disability

Repeated Brain Concussion Can Lead To Disability.
After taking a hardbitten hit to the climax during a football game, an Indiana high school student suffered severe headaches for the next three days. Following a aptitude CT scan that was normal, his doctor told him to delay to go back on the field until he felt better. But the boy returned to practice, where he suffered a devastating planner injury called second impact syndrome pressure. More than six years later, Cody Lehe, now 23, is mostly wheelchair-bound and struggles with diminished certifiable capacity.

Yet he's fortunate to be alive: Second repercussions syndrome is fatal in about 85 percent of cases. "It's a unique syndrome of thought injury that appears in high school and younger athletes when they have a mild concussion, and then have a minute head impact before they're over the symptoms of their first impact. This leads to massive cognition 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 recent report on Cody's case, published Jan extreme. 1 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

The patient study illustrates why it's so powerful to prevent a second impact and give a young brain the chance to rest and recover, another skilful said. "Second impact syndrome is a very rare phenomenon. It's estimated to occur 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 turn over unique: They're the basic ones to in fact have a CT scan after the first hit. What they were able to show is that the first CT scan was read as normal," said Podell, who also is a span consultant for the Houston Texans, of the NFL. "After the first concussion there was no documentation of any significant injury.