Dr. Robert Cantu, a Pennsylvania neurosurgeon and expert in brain injury, recently suggested that football players practice without helmets. His logic was that players would be forced to learn to avoid head contact while playing the high contact sport. Coaches disagree with him and say that they already stress to their players the importance of… Read More
Multidisciplinary Approach Promises to Develop Effective Spinal Cord Injury Treatments
A new study revealed that a multidisciplinary approach tospinal cord injury treatment and research will provide more effective treatments for those with the often hard to treat injuries. Professor of anatomy and neurobiology, orthopedic surgery, and biomedical engineering at University of California, Irvine, Dr. Ranjan Gupta suggested that new pharmaceutical formulae in combination with emerging… Read More
Kinetic Muscles Receives Grant to Study Video Game Treatment for TBI
Kinetic Muscles recently received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to study and develop a new treatment fortraumatic brain injury for veterans returning from duty after having sustained trauma to the brain. The company is known for developing products for rehabilitation for stroke sufferers. Their Phase I study concluded successfully, which led… Read More
Young Children, Teens, Elderly Face Higher Risk of Traumatic Brain Injury
A new report released by the Centers for Disease Control stated that children age 4 and younger, teens from 15 to 19, and people over 75 all face higher risk of traumatic brain injury, a CNN Medical article reported. The report added that falling is the major cause of TBI in elderly and car accidents… Read More
Progesterone Treatment for Brain Injury Study Underway
Patients who arrive at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center with traumatic brain injuries may end up as a part of a widespread study to determine whether or not progesterone injections help to mitigate some of the effects of the injury. Progesterone has been found to correlate with less-severe long-term damage after a brain injury, and… Read More
Brain Scans Help Identify Injury’s Effects
Neurologists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have adapted a brain scanning technique developed for studying the organization of the brain. The novel approach to the scanning might be just what the doctor ordered for traumatic brain injury and stroke patients. If it proves successful, the brain scans will give doctors… Read More