Jan 29 Guest Lecture

Question 1

What is a concussion?

Does concussion results in loss of consciousness or memory dysfunction?

Commonly concussion results in?

Acute symptoms largely reflects what?

Answer 1

What is a concussion?

“A form of a traumatic brain injury induced by biomechanical forces due to either a direct blow to the head, face, neck or elsewhere on the body with an impulsive force transmitted to the head.

Concussion results in a range of clinical signs & symptoms that may or may not involve loss of consciousness or memory dysfunction.

Typically results in a rapid onset of short-lived impairment of neurological function that resolves spontaneously.

Acute symptoms largely reflect a functional disturbance rather than a structural injury.”

Question 2

Immediate symptoms

(Name 4)

Answer 2

Immediate symptoms

❑ Loss of consciousness*
❑ Headache
❑ Confusion
❑ Dizziness
❑ Feeling in a “fog”
❑ Tinnitus
❑ Nausea and/or vomiting

Question 3

Longer lasting symptoms
(Name 5)

Answer 3

Longer lasting symptoms
❑ Light sensitivity
❑ Noise sensitivity
❑ Irritability
❑ Problems sleeping
❑ Problems concentrating