Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussive Syndrome

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussive Syndrome
Mild TBI constitutes 80% to 90% of TBI cases in the United States

~ 2.3 million cases in the United States

Multiple terms, definitions, and diagnostic criteria available for mild or minor traumatic brain injury

The American Congress of Rehabilitation (1995) has defined mild TBI as a traumatically induced physiologic disruption of brain function with at least one of four manifestations:

Any loss of consciousness (LOC)

Any loss of memory for events immediately before or after the injury

Any alteration in mental status at the time of the accident

Focal neurological deficits that may or may not be transient

Usually, mild TBI has negative radiological findings (CT/MRI)

The injury cannot exceed the following severity criteria:

LOC greater than 30 minutes

Posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) > 24 hours

Initial GCS ≤ 12 (13 to 15)

Signs and symptoms after mild TBI include:

Headache (most common)

Dizziness

Tinnitus

Hearing loss

Blurred vision

Altered taste and smell

Sleep disturbances/insomnia

Fatigue

Sensory impairments

Attention and concentration deficits

Slowed mental processing (slowed reaction and information processing time)

Memory impairment (mostly recent memory)

Lability

Irritability

Depression

Anxiety

Most mild TBI patients have a good recovery with symptoms clearing within the first few weeks or months postinjury (usually within 1 to 3 months)

In some patients the symptoms (previously mentioned) persist and are associated with social and vocational difficulties that appear to be out of proportion to the severity of the neurologic insult. This condition has been termed postconcussive syndrome (PCS)

In a recent study, 14 mild TBI patients with unusually persistent deficits evaluated with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) showed significant anterior mesial temporal (lobe) hypoperfusion and less striking dominant (left) orbitofrontal abnormalities

Memory and learning deficits have been associated with lesions at the hippocampus and related structures in the medial temporal lobes or with injuries to structures that control attention, concentration, and information processing in the frontal and temporal lobe

Pharmacologic intervention may be used including antidepressants and psychostimulants

Concussion/Sports Related Head Injuries

Classification of concussion is controversial

The most widely used grading systems for concussion/mild head injury are the Colorado and the Cantu guidelines

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Cantu and Colorado Head Injury Grading Systems.
Return to Play Guidelines

Return to play criteria have been similarly controversial

Colorado Medical Society and Cantu Guidelines are among the most widely used.

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Cantu's Guidelines for Return to Play after Concussion.
The American Academy of Neurology endorsed the Colorado Medical Society Guidelines for classification and management of concussion in sports in its Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee Practice Parameter published in Neurology, 1997.

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When to Return to Play—Colorado Medical Society Guidelines.
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30 stunning facts they don't want you to know about Gardasil and HPV vaccines,,Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037154_Gardasil_HPV_vaccines_scientific_facts.html#ixzz26BQH422R

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30 stunning facts they don't want you to know about Gardasil and HPV vaccines

(NaturalNews) Guarantees. Insurance. Promises. Concerns over safety, security, and health make most people apprehensive about the future on some level. Guarding against future unknowns has become a big part of the American economy. You can get a warranty on almost anything with a battery, take out insurance on many more things than your grandparents would have dreamed of, and the medical industry is working around the clock to develop new drugs and vaccines to 'protect' us from whatever trending epidemic is in the news.

One fairly recent, major medical controversy that seemed, strangely, to have no trending epidemic, is the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer. The blatant profit-mongering behind the development of the premiere vaccine, Gardasil, was transparent enough that it served to further inflame the ongoing vaccination controversies to a point that the media could no longer fail to report on it.

The politics and profits involved in the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the media industry become more obvious and prevalent every day. Before taking any pharmaceutical product, you should take ownership of your own health. Conduct your own research on the ingredients and side-effects. Find out where your doctor gets his information. Many of them are paid to promote specific pharmaceutical products. Others simply get their information from sources they trust such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Still, others are told by their legal departments not to speak out.

Facts you probably don't know about HPV and Gardasil
In August, the Health Ranger interviewed neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. on tv.naturalnews.com. Dr. Blaylock shared some little known facts about the human papillomavirus (HPV) and the quick development of a vaccine to address it. Dr. Blaylock says the vaccine is "predicated on an absolute lie."

Some empowering facts you may not know about the human papillomavirus and Gardasil:

1. First, the basis is wrong. HPV by itself does not cause cervical cancer. Evidence shows it takes a combination, or co-infections - multiple viruses or virus/bacteria combinations to cause cervical cancer. Examples include Epstein Bar virus, HIV, and Chlamydia, along with HPV.

2. Birth control pills and other hormonal drugs also increase the risk of HPV.

3. It has never been proven that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer. There is no scientific evidence of any kind.

4. There are over 100 strains of HPV, only about 15 of which can contribute to cervical cancer.

5. HPV vaccines only include two to four strains, leaving you open to more than two-thirds of the dangerous strains. You will still need to get routine screenings for cervical cancer.

6. You don't change or reduce the incidence of cancer by receiving the vaccine. Studies show that the human immune system develops resistance to the strains given in the vaccine, allowing others to become predominant.

7. The CDC website states that the human body's immune system clears HPV within two years, 90 percent of the time (70 percent in one year). Without the vaccine.

8. One of the most powerful connections proven to increase the risk of cervical cancer is smoking. Women who smoke have 2.3 times higher incidence of the precancerous lesions that lead to cervical cancer.

9. Diet is key. A poor diet increases risk while a diet that includes high amounts of vitamin B12 and folic acid have a 79 percent reduction in HPV infections and cervical cancer. Vitamin C, curcumin, quercetin, and other flavonoids are powerful inhibitors against cervical cancer.

10. Dietary combinations have been proven to have far greater effect against HPV than any vaccine.

11. All the marketing assertions are false. It is one of the largest, most harmful medical hoaxes of our time.

12. Officially, the vaccine has been associated with approximately 100 deaths, and 500 have been left permanently disabled.

13. Those numbers are based on voluntary reporting, which historically means only two to ten percent of cases are represented. The vast majority of cases are never reported. So, conservatively, 5,000 young girls and women have been harmed by the vaccine.

14. Cervical cancer is one of the rarest cancers in the U. S., with 12,000 cases reported per year and 4,000 deaths.

15. The number of girls and women that experience serious complications from the vaccine meets or exceeds the number of deaths.

16. Side-effects include: Multiple sclerosis, encephalitis, blindness, pericarditis, coma, and death among many others.

17. The vaccine Gardasil was "fast tracked." This was illegal. The FDA requires new vaccines to undergo testing and a waiting period of 4 years. Gardasil was developed and on the market in 6 months, with FDA approval.

18. Texas governor Rick Perry tried to force all girls in Texas entering the sixth grade to receive the vaccine in 2007, despite the fact that the incubation period for HPV averages 20 years with the median age of sufferers being 48. He mandated it over the legislature's objections.

19. People thought they were required to receive the vaccine, but that too was untrue as it wasn't an actual law.

20. Perry received huge amounts of money from the manufacturer.

21. Perry's former chief of staff became a hired lobbyist for Merck, the maker of Gardasil in 2009, exposing the connection to the pharmaceutical giant, and the motivation for pushing the vaccine.

22. The Texas Legislature overturned Perry's executive order requiring girls to get the vaccine due to the huge backlash from the public. However, the precedent had been set, and other states and countries began to follow suit.

23. Pap smears alone prevent over 80 percent of cervical cancer. A yearly pap smear reduces your chance of getting cervical cancer to .002 percent.

24. HPV vaccines have been illegally administered to millions without informed consent as the risks are rarely disclosed.

25. What people don't know is that there are Informed Consent laws that are there to protect patients. They provide a legal strategy for people who have experienced vaccine damage.

26. Vaccine manufacturers do not want doctors to discuss and disclose the risks associated with vaccines because they don't want people to realize they can opt out. This has been documented in multiple medical journals. Yet it is illegal for doctors NOT to disclose the risks.

27. The vaccine was only tested on 21,000 girls and women before being pushed on millions of children, teens, and adults worldwide, according to the FDA website.

28. The FDA website has no mention that the vaccine was ever tested on males, yet the CDC says the vaccine is "recommended for all teen boys and men through age 21."

29. The Informed Consent laws also address questions about the efficacy of vaccines. Meaning you have a right to ask questions and receive answers about how well it works, why you should allow it to be administered, as well as the risks.

30. Vaccine manufacturers have gone to the legislature(s) to get a law passed that you cannot sue over vaccine complications. But, you can sue. (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=4D703FEAA094BED0DB02BEDC4507765C)

After learning the ins and out of the underhanded and unethical practices involved in bringing this vaccine to market, people should wonder why and how medical professionals and legislators continue to go along with promoting it unquestioningly. If this were a financial situation, there would be enough evidence to bring charges against manufacturers, the legislators, and the CDC. The vaccine industry regularly operates in criminal practices. They violate marketing laws with false statements and exaggerated extrapolations/over simplification of the facts; they doctor their statistical numbers, and present their marketing as science. Gardasil was being tested before it was licensed. They have yet to offer a plausible explanation as to why girls aged 9-12 need a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease, much less one that only offers two years of "protection."

You have to question who is making the decisions to allow the shortcuts that have resulted in so many deaths and disabilities. Are these the same "powers that be" that are disseminating the information to your doctor that it is safe and recommended for your daughter?

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[Fwd: Journal from Homeopathy Without Borders - Haiti]

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 Day 1 - from Karen Allen

Day 2 - Ruja Nothaft 
Day 3 - Rami Makkar 
Day 4 - Holly Manoogian 

   

Day 1, 6/24/12:
Coming from different parts of the country, our group of four gathers at gate 24 in the Miami airport for the flight to Port-au-Prince. The ninety minute flight ends with announcements in English and French, and we make our way through immigration. We are met by a representative from the guest house who is locating all of the scheduled guests, and we look through the piled bags and a sea of people to collect our luggage and supplies that we have brought for clinic. Once out of the airport, we run the friendly gauntlet of red-shirted men who all want to take our bags and drive us to our destination - we keep a firm grip on our bags, walk quickly following our escort and meet with the driver from the guest house to snug 7 of us into a small van with all our luggage....

The guest houses are interesting because there are so many projects people are working on, and they come from such diverse places. The one that hosts us is in the Delmas 19 area of Port-au-Prince, and boasts the luxury in our dorm-style room of an attached bathroom. The shower may be cold water and the bathroom shared with another attached room, but it is in the same building, and not down the hall!  Our fellow guests this time are involved in projects for water purification and building schools for children in rural areas.

After we are settled in, Holly calls an orientation/planning meeting, going over the schedule for the week, answering questions, and assigning tasks. Our volunteers from San Diego, Ruja Nothaft and Rami Makkar, will be inventorying the dispensary, adding in the newly donated remedies. Two days of class and 4 days of clinic in various locations lie ahead...   I am looking forward to seeing the students, hearing how they have been doing in their case work, and talking with the translator about happenings in Haiti...  Tomorrow we can expect to get an early start with the roosters before 6...

Day 2 in Haiti, Monday June 25th:

Last night following our fearless leaders, I slept at 9 pm. That is really unusual for me, but since I had been warned of the early roosters, I slept. Sure enough at 5 am the roosters woke us up. We feigned sleeping till 6 am. Then got ourselves ready for the first day of class.

After a wonderful breakfast in the kitchen with yummy spicy peanut butter and bread and eggs, we were picked up by our driver to head out to the school location. We got picked up inside the house compound, because the local driver and security guards really want us safe. Then we drove to school, through a street that has seen its better days. The ridges are so big that the van had to drive very slowly; the rocking was more like a rocking boat in a stormy sea.

At the school location slowly the students started rolling in. We set up the computer and the projector, but alas, there was no electricity. Oh well class must go on...

In class Karen asked the students if anyone had used their kits that they were given in April. And amazingly in a culture where class participation is minimal, hands started going up and students shared some of the cases they used their remedies for and the success they had. You could see the encouragement in their faces that these weird little pills work. Even one student had prescribed a remedy for a malaria case and had positive results, although they had not covered the pathology in class.

It was hot and dusty, but everyone hung in there and it was wonderful to see so many mostly young students engaged in healing their people.

 

 

Day 3 in Haiti

 

Everyone was ready before I even got up at 6:30, a very enthusiastic group! The breakfast bell rang and we all went to kitchen for Yummy Pancakes with Peanut butter & bananas, they made sure that we get some proteins and we decided to walk to the class today. It was a pleasant 15 min. walk.

 

Karen's class started with dosing instructions and potencies. Karen's excellent delivery made the concepts very clear and she moved on to acute therapeutics for leucorrhea, toothache & coughs based on the number of cases they saw in April at the clinics. Students from all walks of life like medical school, nursing school, teachers, pharmacist were in the class and it was a very interactive session with lot of student participation. Students were quizzed in the end on small cases and they did a very good job. They already are practicing with family, friends & patients as they were handed down the remedy kits to use and practice what they had learnt in the previous two sessions.

 

Evenings are cool with a lovely breeze blowing and we enjoyed eating food on the roof top. We will end the day after entering some clinical data students collected over the past few months. We begin to see patients tomorrow and looking forward to this challenging task.

 

 

Day 4 - Another Wonderful Day in Haiti. The day began with plenty of wonder - what clinic would be like..... Tony, the facility manager at the OPL center wondered if people would actually show up, Ruja and Rami wondered if their homeopathic skills would match the needs of the people of Haiti. We wondered if the student's participation from seminar, which had surpassed our expectations, would equal their clinical skills.

 

 

 

Arriving at the center just after 8:30 AM, we were greeted by early arriving students eager to get to work.   Within minutes the team was busy setting up the clinic - 3 stations for taking cases, the dispensary table and two waiting areas - one for adults and the other for children.   Just past 9:00AM we were off and running. By then the room must have had 40 people waiting to receive care. Each station with a homeopath, 2-3 students, a translator huddled around to listen to the needs of the client.

 

 

We all worked passionately until about 1:00 PM . A short break for lunch and a return to clients with the rhythm of a practiced team left me know doubt this was extraordinary. We finished our last cases just after 3PM and concongratulated our team as we wrapped up this successful day.  

 

How wonderful it was to work with Haitian student homeopaths as they offered homeopathic care to over 70 people. How wonderful for all of us to come together - some of us working as fast as we could, others waiting so patiently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BAHA puts homeopaths in touch with one another so that Homeopathy in the Bay Area continues to thrive,and so that more people learn of the great possibility that Homeopathy brings.
We strive to do this by providing networking and collaborative opportunities for professional homeopaths,and by publishing a directory of Bay Area homeopaths for the public, and a list of local homeopath mentors.

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Raving for Homeopathy

George Christy Talks About Homeopathic Remedies, Queen Elizabeth II, Dr. Clifford-Jones, Bob Litvak, Sly Stallone and More!

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Odd.  Sometimes it takes someone from elsewhere to lead you to what you’ve missed in your own backyard.  As happened when a New York friend with the same health issue as we had suggested we visit a homeopathic pharmacy. Checking the Internet, she e-mailed us an address.   The Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy at 7th Street and Broadway in Santa Monica.  A brief stroll from the Pier.

We asked why doctors pooh-pooh homeopathy, and she responded that it was her doctor who directed her to a homeopathic consultant, believing there would be help.   And there was.  “Never knock it,” she said, “until you have the experience.”

How right she was, and is.

Our curious nature stalked the Internet.  We discovered that Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family have practiced homeopathy with homeopathic doctors for three generations (the Queen Mum lived to 101).   Whenever she travels, the Queen’s massive luggage includes dozens of vials of homeopathic remedies.

We learned that homeopathy dates back as far back as the 19th century.  Today, it’s frequently referred to as “alternative medicine,” involving lifestyle changes, diet considerations, exercise and natural remedies.  A strong supporter has been the prolific author Dr. Andrew Weil.

After visiting the Santa Monica location, we were blown away with its history and diehard regulars.    First known as the Santa Monica Drug Store, the pharmacy was founded in 1944 by pharmacist Norman Litvak and wife Mary, whose parents immigrated from the Ukraine to Buffalo, New York.  “As our homeopathic remedy shelves increased,” says Norman’s son Bob Litvak, who owns the pharmacy with brother Don, “we found the dispensing of prescription drugs decreased.   Norman and Mary acknowledged that while prescription drugs are needed, some are prescribed unnecessarily.

“We’re proud to be a family pharmacy, and never charge for our consultations.   Don manages the business end, and I’m at the store, with Don’s son Steve, who departed a successful ownership of a restaurant to became one of our popular consultants for nigh on thirty years. Don’s daughter Debbie soon came aboard. Additionally, we’re proud that our visionary founder Norman was awarded an honorary degree by the acclaimed British Institute of Homeopathy in 1992.”

Among the pharmacy’s practitioners are Olympic gold and bronze medalists, MBA champs, NFL players, Miami Heat coach Pat Riley and wife Chris, nurses and doctors and pharmacists, acupuncturists and chiropractors, superstars from Fiona Apple to Angela Lansbury, Sly Stallone, Lee Ann Rhimes, Pierce Brosnan, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jackson Browne, Carl Weathers, Mark Harmon, Goldie Hawn, Randy Newman, Herb Alpert, Mel Gibson, Sally Field, Reba McIntire, Blythe Danner, Lauren Bacall, Neil Simon, chefs Rafael Lunetta of Giraffe and Border Grill’s Mary Sue Milliken.   Plus other notables and, of course, just us folks.

“Regulars fly in from Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia to buy our products and for continuing consultations with our nutritionists, herbalists, pharmacists Pam and Harlan.   All are certified and licensed by the State of California.  Surprising that for a small and local neighborhood pharmacy, we’re on the international circuit.”

“The United States today consumes 40 percent of all drugs produced in the world, yet ranks 42nd in life expectancy,” writes Dr. W. Clifford-Jones in his article in The Epoch Times titled “What I Learned Recently at Harvard Medical School.”   Dr. Clifford-Jones is a medical journalist with a private medical practice in Toronto. “North Americans have become conditioned by the billions spent by pharmaceutical companies into believing there is a prescription pill for every common ache and disease.  In effect, the public is being sold sickness night after night on TV screens, with disastrous results.

“How ill are North Americans?  Statistics show that the average person over the age of 55 is taking eight or more prescription drugs at any one time and that much of this medication is either questionable or harmful.”

Dr. Clifford-Jones continues:  “Another instance, 70 percent of patients with chronic headaches are actually suffering from drug-induced headaches.  Not many know that nonsteroidal drugs, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, used for arthritis, can cause joint destruction … my Harvard classmates and I deplored the lack of preventive medicine for many chronic diseases …”

Bob Litvak agrees about America’s abusive use of painkillers through the decades.   “We believe that numerous prescription drugs are not only questionable, but many have accidental consequences.  Our goal is to detox.  We suggest natural homeopathic remedies.

“Anxiety problems, depression, allergies, sleep deprivation, hormonal issues are among the common confrontations.  Our qualified staff’s helpful with injuries, colds, flu, pink eye, problems ranging from chemotherapy to radiation.   We address the needs of pregnant and nursing mothers, month-old infants and nonagenarians who keep fit and live an active life.  Truth is that people have to want to get healed, and not blame parents for their problems.”
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