Brain Injuries - Type of Brain Injury

Brain injuries have been classified and re-classifed over the years with several different names. What was once an open head injury is now called a traumatic brain injury. Traumatic brain injuries are then classifed as severe, moderate or mild based upon how long the person was unconscious.

We agree with a group of lawyers who are advocating that brain injuries should be classifed with two simple categories: those involving coma and those that don't. And though brain injuries are the signature wound of military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the military calls it mild traumatic brain injury.

Think about this. Beth Jameson suffered an anoxic brain injury due to a stroke; Alan Forman suffered diffuse axonal brain injury after being run over by a boat; Claudia Osborn was riding a bicycle and was hit by a car resulting in traumatic brain injury; Donna Jones suffered TBI during a snowmobile accident; Courtney Larson was in an automobile accident; David Fierce was driving a car that hit a patch of black ice and slid off the road right into his brain injury. Angela Ronson's brain injury came as a result of an Arterio-Venous Malformation (AVM) rupture.

Rebekah Vandergriff lay in a coma for six weeks after her car accident. Beth Jameson and Alan Crimmins were put into morphine-induced comas to prevent their brains from receiving more damage.

Each person mentioned above suffered memory problems, cognitive problems and behavioral problems. Beth and Courtney did not remember they were married; Beth didn't remember she had two children. David Fierce did not remember that he was trying to get away from a former girlfriend ... and married her!

Different Types of Brain Injuries - Common Problems

Anoxic and Hypoxic brain injuries are differentiated by oxygen amounts. A person suffering from anoxia is not getting any oxygen to the brain. Hypoxia, on the other hand, happens when a person does not receive an adequate amount of oxygen going to the brain.

It is not possible to use the word all when talking about brain injuries. No two brains are exactly alike before being injured; therefore no two injured brains are exactly alike afterward. There are common problems, and those common problems usually involved loss of skills involving memory, cognition and behavior.

Brain Injury Articles

Below are links to articles that will provide more information about a few types of brain injuries.

Traumatic Brain Injuries

Anoxic Brain Injuries

Acquired Brain Injury

Hypoxic Brain Injury

Diffuse Brain Injury

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