Acupuncture and Brain Injury

As the name suggest, brain injury or traumatic brain injury is the disorder that happen in the brain and it is merely cause as an effect of external cause or force. It is disorder that received by someone because of any incident in their life such as car accident. It is sometimes confusing between traumatic brain injury and acquired brain injury. Acquired brain injury is brain injury is said to be the injury that acquired or received by somebody after the birth.[note]About Brain Injury, biausa.org, http://www.biausa.org/about-brain-injury.htm[/note]  

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SYMPTOMS

CAUSES

TREATMENTS

 

SYMPTOMS

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The symptoms of brain injury can vary among many sufferers. It can vary from mild to severe symptoms depending on the cause of the brain injury. Mild or moderate brain injury is a brain injury that make the sufferer loss of consciousness lasting from 20 minutes until 6 hours. While severe brain injury is a brain injury that produce loss of consciousness longer than 6 hours. Taraumatic brain injury itself is a brain in jury that result in permanent damage to the brain, therefore greatly reduce brain function and can greatly affect human ability. [note]Severe TBI Symptoms, traumaticbraininjury.com Severe TBI Symptoms, traumaticbraininjury.com, http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/symptoms-of-tbi/severe-tbi-symptoms/[/note]  

CAUSES

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As stated before, traumatic brain injury is caused by severe blow or force to the human head that in turn affect the human brain. The brain injury cause can vary and many factors included such as damage area of brain cells, widespread damage that produced by a suddent blast like a bomb for example, bleeding or blod clot around brain that will prevent oxygen supply to the brain, etc.[note]Traumatic brain injury,mayoclinic.org, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-brain-injury/basics/causes/con-20029302[/note]  

TREATMENTS

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Related Acupuncture Points : C2 GB13 GV20 Acupuncture treatment for Brain Injury The acupuncture treatment given to the sufferer of brain injury depending case by case because brain injury is very much unique depending on the cause and severity of the disorder. One sample of treatment protocol given to the sufferer of brain injury is that the sufferer firstly given the core treatment to reduce the qi and blood stagnation due to spleen dysfunction. As time passed, another treatment protocol was given to remove or soothe other symptoms such as respiratory infection, constipation, and insomnia. [note]Restoration of Function With Acupuncture Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Report, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653595/[/note]