Head injuries: long-term management and mitigating the damage after an incident | Tommy Wood

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This clip is from episode #257 ‒ Cognitive decline, neurodegeneration, and head injuries: mitigation and prevention strategies with Tommy Wood, BM BCh (MD), PhD.
In this clip, they discuss:
- What is a concussion?
- How common are severe symptoms of concussions?
- Comparing concussions against traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
- And more
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[@Cathy-xi8cb]

Head injuries can be prevented in so many situations. It requires you to be able to assess risk and make choices for safety. This could mean NOT doing things that are fun or accepting the consequences of avoidance or alteration. Children cannot do this. Adults with neurodivergence often cannot do this. It takes skills that erode with mild cognitive deficit as well. Protect your brain. Drive defensively. Ski, run, cycle, and boat defensively. Be bold, and refuse to do stupid things because they are funny. I worked for 2 doctors whose specialty was head injury. Their only child died from a head injury suffered in a fall while drunk. Their lives have essentially been destroyed. By a dumb choice, made by a young guy who was allowed to do whatever he wanted without consequences. Watched him grow up while I worked for his parents, so this is fact. He is dead; they are half dead.

[@ABc-nu6jb]

I know you mentioned a child cannot control but that also where most/a lot of concussion occur or by doing basic things like riding a regular bike and there’s some unexpected hole in the street etc. There are so many things that can happen that are unexpected, all my concussions were not something that was caused by random accident during childhood and youth and none of them were my fault, it’s very sad. I get your point though but it’s not fair to those who did nothing wrong in that regards 😢

[@Cathy-xi8cb]

@@ABc-nu6jb: This is why we supervise kids when very young, and teach them safety as early as possible through direct instruction and modeling from adults. Some populations are more at risk: kids on farms, kids in poor neighborhoods with bad roads, sidewalks, even homes. Kids living in abusive or addictive homes.

[@TonyS-gv9vl]

Given the key role, sensitivity and complexity of the human brain would you recommend SPECT as preferred diagnostic tool with TBIs?

[@BobbyUk-e8u]

Make a video about PSSD, Post ssri s3xual dysfunction. 😉😉

[@ABc-nu6jb]

Why after you stop and not during taking it?

[@BobbyUk-e8u]

@@ABc-nu6jb My Pssd started on drug and persist after discontinuation of it.

[@ABc-nu6jb]

@@BobbyUk-e8u May I ask how long it continued after discontinuing it (or still and if so, how long ago have you stopped) and how long (after starting SSRI) it initially started?

[@leftright5]

You need to have Dr. Mark Gordon on. He is the leading tbi dr. His treatment protocol saved my life and many others.

[@ABc-nu6jb]

Is he on KZbin? This topic is so important

[@leftright5]

@ABc-nu6jb Yes. He is on Joe Rogan podcast 5 or 6 times. The episode that started my recovery and health journey is jre #1056. He also has a channel on youtube that is pretty new under Mark L Gordon... He's the real deal. I made a full recovery when multiple drs said I would never recover. I then applied his concept of fighting inflammation to my autoimmune diseases when the drs said I would never recover from that either. I have to be disciplined with what I put in my body, but all of my autoimmune diseases have been in full remission for a few years now.

[@leftright5]

@@ABc-nu6jbHe is on Joe Rogan podcast 5 times. JRE #1056 was the episode that saved my life and put me on my path to recovery and good health. He also started a youtube channel with a lot of good info under Mark L Gordon.

[@mark-c802]

there is some success in creating acetaminophen/tylenol normally derived from processed coal tar using plant based material

[@emstonestreet]

My wife gets migraines and sometimes uses a frozen wrap (head and neck) for pain reduction. That wrap looks similar in design to the wrap from PolarCap, which you can see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX_CmqSDrd9pjdEsi=iK6HWWxYw7zzLK2X

[@LabRetrieverFriend]

You should get Sidney Crosby on for this. Dudes had way too many concussions