What is a Concussion?
A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury that results from a blow or sudden movement to the head, neck, or body that causes the brain to shift or shear inside the skull. At impact, the brain can become bruised, tissues torn, and minor swelling can occur. The injury can result in various temporary chemical changes inside the brain that cause it to function improperly. The shifts in brain function can alter the way you think, act, or feel. Sometimes the signs and symptoms of a concussion occur immediately after an impact, while others can take minutes, hours, or even days to appear.
You can experience many different signs and symptoms right after a head injury:
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Sensitivity to light and sound
- Ringing in the ears
- Problems with balance, vision, concentration, and memory
- Some of the late signs and symptoms of concussion are sleep irregularities, depression or anxiety, lethargy, memory dysfunction, personality changes, or irritability
It is important to recognize the signs and symptoms because concussions and the symptoms they produce range in severity and not everyone’s experience is the same.
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Comprehensive Care
Partnering with patients, student athletes, parents, and coaches, Hughston offers a one-on-one customized concussion management program. Patients will benefit from a unique tool that is used to measure brain activity, called an EEG. This non-invasive and quantitative procedure may be performed either before (to develop a baseline) or after an injury.
Baseline assessments are encouraged. After review and discussion of the EEG results, the physician will then develop a full treatment plan, this plan might include a period of rest, physical therapy and a plan for the return to normal activity. Our sports medicine primary care specialty allows the physician to continue to manage care throughout the entire injury recovery process.
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At Hughston, we are committed to delivering the highest quality, evidence based medicine, while treating every patient with the dignity and respect they deserve. Built upon Hughston Clinic’s founding principles of education, research and treatment; these elements will remain paramount with each patient encounter.
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