Brain Injuries Can Prove Dangerous

By Author: Shourya Ray Chaudhuri
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Brain is the most vital part of the body of an individual. Since it is the brain that receives signals from various other body parts, understands it and reacts accordingly. If not for the brain no other part would function appropriately. The entire process of receiving of the signals to reacting to it accordingly, happens in fraction of a second. For which, the brain has to be in proper working condition.

Brain is known to be the president of the body. If it stops working, the entire functioning of other body parts would deteriorate or eventually stop working as well. When a brain stops working, it is known as either brain dead or body being vegetable. The non-working of the brain leads to body being considered as a suitcase, which would be of no use, as one cannot be carrying it around when it has stopped functioning. However, keeping the brain healthy will lead to happy and healthy living of an individual.

Injuries due to major accidents can prove disastrous to many, leading to various kinds of disabilities in the physicality’s or mentally giving rise to many other health related problems, like, internal blood ...
... clotting, disturbance while breathing, improper beating of the heart or other major brain injuries. That is the only reason doctors check the functioning of the brain, if it can still receive and react to signals after the injury, and accordingly medication is provided. Brain injuries are devastating, as it may lead to adverse effects on the other body functions creating imbalance, which in medical terms is known as brain dead i.e. to be a vegetable, which can easily happen if not rectified faster. By providing proper treatment to this particular issue would help in faster recovery, making the patient recover and start walking, understand, reacting and recognizing to the on-goings around them.

The rehabilitation for brain injury must be designed, taking into account a broad range of neuro-functional strengths and weaknesses, by keeping in mind, that basic skills must be strengthened even before more complex skills are added to, which is a considered task in any neurological institute which deals with patients suffering from brain affected issues. Definitely, doctors or specialists sketch down a particular set of tests that needs to be conducted to identify the real cause of the problem and which particular part of the brain is it affected to. Looking at the entire study, doctors provide various medications or therapies to help them recover faster, with no side effects.

Treatments provided by rehabilitation centers vary with the type of injury proving problematic to the patients. There are certain aspects that should be the prime concern while treating, like, to stop any kind of bleeding before proceeding with other procedures, to control the amount of pressure within the skull when it increases, allow adequate flow of blood to the brains as it would lead to proper functioning of the brain and react to the treatment easily and the most important concern should be the removal of the blood clots so that it does not block the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, allowing the body parts to function perfectly.

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