Mending With A Brain Injury Expert

By Pamela Hughes


The human form is ideal for most things. Human endurance is actually off the charts, especially in comparison to other animals. Sure, other animals may be faster, a lot faster, and others may be stronger, but none of them can keep on going quite like humanity can. But the human body has some quirks. The mind actively holds back the majority of human strength, since the body is not durable enough to endure such strain and exertion. There is also the matter of the brain, far and away the most delicate part of the human body. When a brain is hurt, a brain injury expert is required.

Unfortunately, neurological trauma is among the most comprehensive maladies that can befall a person. The thing about the brain is that it does not mend, not fully. Skin and organs can heal and with time, it will be like the injury never happened. That is not the case with the mass of gray matter house inside the skull. Once an injury occurs, it is always a little more broken than it was before, the cells do not replicate as they do in the skin.

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.

Most people are afraid of neurological trauma. So when the symptoms first present, denial is the go to reaction. But those symptoms are not going to go away. The only thing to do is accept that help is necessary.

But healthcare in general is not cheap. Specialized care for neurological trauma is definitely not going to come cheap. Then there is also the cost of care afterwards, since some people might need help.

Every neurologist will go through medical school. Once that is done, they will serve an internship in a hospital. Some will directly under an established expert and learn from them.

Finding a specialist is all about recommendations. A hospital will generally have a neurology department. But the real specialists do not advertise their services in magazines.

Scientists speculate that humans evolved to trade physical strength for higher brain function. But that function is a delicate thing. It must be protected.




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