Making Sense With A Brain Injury Expert

By Pamela Hughes


At no point in its evolutionary history was the human being ever the biggest, strongest, or fastest animal around. Literally every other animal of comparable mass was stronger or faster. A gorilla is around five times stronger than an adult human male. Even the chimpanzee is, when the size difference is taken into account, one and one half times stronger than a person. But it was not the gorilla that built great cities. It was not the chimpanzee that built rockets that reached the stars. No, humanity did all that, and it did so by being smarter. Humans created tools and then used those tools to the extent that the only reason other great apes still exist is because humanity allows it. If people really wanted to, they could cull the ape populations until there was nothing left. But evolution has a twisted sense of humor. The thing that facilitated human dominance is also the most fragile part of the body. A the help of brain injury expert is required to heal.

Neurological trauma is far and away one of the worst injuries a person can sustain. The fact of the matter is that while the rest of the human body is fantastic at recuperating from injury, the brain is not. Once a brain is injured, it stays injured. It does not heal or repair itself. It just sits there.

Too much brain trauma can result in death. But those that do not die immediately will be worse off. The ability to speak and the use of fine motor skills are usually among the first to go when the trauma starts to pile up. Then there is the loss of memory. A person may stare at the faces of all the people they have ever cared about but may see nothing more than a group of strangers.

Blunt force trauma is a common means of injury. The skull is a thick mass of bone. But the mind housed inside of it a soft mass of gray matter. The more a person is hit in the head, the less that mass of gray matter is able to function. People who play contact sports like football and hockey suffer high rates of neurological injury. Curiously, studies have shown that mixed martial artists, purveyors of a full contact combat sport, suffer traumatic injuries at significantly lower rates.

The first step is admitting that there is a problem. Oftentimes people, especially men, will ignore symptoms and hope they go away on their own. Spoiler alert, but they never do. They just get worse and worse, and they cannot be stopped or reversed. The only thing that can be done to them is to slow them down.

But that help is not going to come cheap. Neurology is an extremely advanced version of medicine. The treatments can be at the bleeding edge of science. There are conventional treatment options, but they are going to cost a pretty penny as well. Not to mention that cost of the post treatment care.

A doctor has to go through medical school. After that is an internship. A doctor may then study under a specialist and learn from them.

A hospital will generally have a neurology department. But there are specialized clinics available. Most people hear about specialists either through the internet or from recommendation from other doctors.

Human minds are as fragile as glass. Like glass, once broken, it can be reassembled, but never truly fixed. So, breakage should be avoided as much as possible.




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