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Concussion Concussion, from the Latin concutere (to shake violently) or concussus (action of striking together), is the most common type of traumatic brain injury.
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Concussion (Traumatic Brain Injury) The most common and least serious type of traumatic brain injury is called a concussion. The word comes from the Latin concutere, which means to shake violently. According to the CDC, between 2001 and 2009, an estimated 173,285 people under age 19 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for concussions related to sports and recreation activities.
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Post-Concussion Syndrome In this Article. Post-concussion syndrome is a condition that is typically associated with a head injury. The head injury may be categorized as a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury. In general terms, post-concussion syndrome, or PCS, is a medical problem that persists for a period of time after a head injury has occurred.
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Post-concussion Syndrome Concussion is an injury to your brain that may occur after a blow to your head. The blow to your head causes your brain to move slightly within your skull. This can momentarily disrupt the electrical activity within some of the cells in your brain so that your brain stops working properly for a short period of time. It is this disruption that leads to the symptoms of concussion.
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Post-concussion syndrome What is Post Concussion Syndrome? Post concussion syndrome is a set of symptoms such as headache, dizziness, fatigue, and problems concentrating, that may be experienced for weeks, months, or more after a concussion, especially if the concussion was severe enough to lose consciousness. Common symptoms.
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Post-Concussion Syndrome However, your feedback is important to us. Post-concussion syndrome, or post-concussive syndrome (PCS), refers to the lingering symptoms following a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is typically diagnosed when a person who has recently suffered a head injury continues to feel at least three of the main symptoms following a concussion. These include dizziness, fatigue, and headaches. Post-concussion syndrome can begin to occur within days of the head injury.
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Concussion A concussion can result from a fall, sports activities, or car accidents. A big movement of the brain (called jarring) in any direction can cause a person to lose alertness (become unconscious). How long the person stays unconscious may be a sign of how bad the concussion is. Concussions do not always lead to loss of consciousness. Most people never pass out.
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Concussions What is a concussion? A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury caused by a bump, jolt, or blow to the head. The sudden movement causes the brain to bounce around or twist inside the skull. This leads to stretching and damaging of brain cells and chemical changes in the brain.
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Brain Injuries Concussions. A concussion is a common term used to describe a mild brain injury. Signs that may briefly follow trauma indicating a concussion include: confusion, amnesia, slurred speech, headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, as well as loss of balance or loss of consciousness.
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Facts About Concussion and Brain Injury What Is a Concussion? Recommend on Facebook Tweet ShareCompartir. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth.
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Head Injuries: Causes and Treatments A concussion causes an alteration of a person's mental status and can disrupt the normal functioning of the brain. Multiple concussions can have a long-lasting, cumulative life-changing effect. You don't have to be hit in the head to experience a concussion.
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Concussion Concussion is associated with a variety of symptoms, which typically occur rapidly after the injury. Early symptoms usually subside within days or weeks. The number and type of symptoms any one individual suffers varies widely.
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Concussion A concussion is a type of brain injury. It involves a short loss of normal brain function. It happens when a hit to the head or body causes your head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. This sudden movement can cause the brain to bounce around or twist in the skull, creating chemical changes in your brain.
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Post-Concussion Syndrome Post-concussion syndrome, or post-concussive syndrome (PCS), refers to the lingering symptoms following a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is typically diagnosed when a person who has recently suffered a head injury continues to feel at least three of the main symptoms following a concussion. These include dizziness, fatigue, and headaches. Post-concussion syndrome can begin to occur within days of the head injury.
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- Concussion, mTBI, and PCS. •While concussion is a less stigmatizing term. than mTBI, not everyone agrees the terms are. synonymous. •The brain injury may be confused with its. functional sequelae, which are labeled as PCS. •It can be argued that concussion should be. considered a chronic disorder that extends.
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Concussion Concussion Overview. The term concussion describes an injury to the brain resulting from an impact to the head. By definition, a concussion is not a life-threatening injury, but it can cause both short-term and long-term problems. A concussion results from a closed-head type of injury and does not include injuries in which there is bleeding under the skull or into the brain.
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Concussion By the 18th century, a variety of hypotheses for concussion had emerged. The 19th century discovery of petechial hemorrhagic lesions in severe traumatic brain injury led to these being posited as the basis of concussion, and a similar logic was used later to suggest diffuse axonal injury was responsible.
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Concussions A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury caused by a bump, jolt, or blow to the head. The sudden movement causes the brain to bounce around or twist inside the skull. The most common symptom of a concussion is a headache. The main treatment is rest.
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- Spot the signs and symptoms – and manage treatment with ImPACT. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way the brain normally works. Concussions can also occur from a fall or a blow to the body that causes the head and brain to move quickly back and forth.
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- Concussion describes a brain injury where, after an injury, there are functional changes that occur in how the brain works but no structural damage can be seen on standard imaging tests like CT scan.
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code S06.0X0A Short Description: Concussion without loss of consciousness, initial encounter. Long Description: Concussion without loss of consciousness, initial encounter. This is the 2017 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code S06.0X0A. Valid for Submission. The code S06.0X0A is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
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What is a concussion? What is a concussion? A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) caused by a blow or jolt to the head or body that causes the brain to shake. The shaking can cause the brain to not work normally and can result in serious side effects. Each year, thousands of children and youth are diagnosed with concussion — only half are sports related.
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concussion An injury to a soft structure, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow and followed by a temporary or prolonged loss of function. concussion. An injury to a soft structure, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow or impact and followed by a temporary, sometimes prolonged, loss of function. A concussion of the brain results in transient loss of consciousness or memory.