We have collected some information about various spinal, brain and bone injuries that can seriously affect quality of life, and may require the services of attendant care workers, like those that we employ.

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The Following is a brief explanation of how an Acquired Brain Injury Happens.

Our brain is the consistency of Jell-OTM, suspended in a thick glycerin-like fluid, wrapped in a thin, rubber inner tube-like material, and enclosed in the skull, a rigid, hard case. Nature has done an awesome job of protecting our most valuable asset.Unfortunately, even Nature's best design has limits: Hit your head with enough force to overcome these protective barriers, and the price is horrendous.Striking your head with sufficient force damages the brain at the site of impact. To make a very bad situation even worse, the blow may cause the brain to bounce off the other side of the skull. Damage is doubled - the potential for loss or mental, physical and emotional capacity and flexibility is multiplied.

A heavy blow to the head causes a rapid acceleration and deceleration of the brain. The head whips forward, stops suddenly, and then violently whips back. Because the white matter (the brain's bulk) and the grey matter (the brain's thin outer layer) are of different densities, they move at different speeds. As the two tissues slip against each other, billions of axons are damaged, some even severed (called axon shearing).Axons are slender, thread like filaments that connect nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body. Their job is to send communication signals from one area of the cortex to another, from the cortex to the brain's deep structures, and to all parts of the body.When injured, the axons are not able to efficiently carry the brain's communication signals. If sheared, signals will not be able to transmit at all. Brain performance is hampered, and symptoms such as confusion, headaches, visual disturbances, speech problems, coordination, spastic limbs, and even paralysis occur.

Our brain does so much of it's work by communication with itself - by rapidly connecting, disconnecting, and then reconnecting it's many specialized areas. In those with head injury, the brain's Coherence may become excessive, locking the brain into inflexible thinking and behavior patterns.Other mental problems, fuzzy thinking and confusion, for example, and physical symptoms, such as dizziness and headaches, are common.