Repeat concussions may require longer recoveries in kids By RYAN JASLOW / CBS NEWS/ June 10, 2013, 11:51 AM Young athletes who have suffered multiple concussions need significantly longer recovery periods than first-time sufferers, according to a new study…
The USAF study from Brookes Air Force base has finally established that hyperbaric treatment benefits patients with mild chronic brain injury (mTBI ). However, the authors allege that the concept of the idling neurone is unproven, despite its acceptance by…
There are a number of studies around the world that have shown promise in the use of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of cerebral palsy. The use of hyperbaric oxygen to treat Cerebral Palsy is not without controversy. But why?…
By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on March 26, 2012 Currently, physicians and medical scientists diagnose a child as possessing an autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by observing behavior patterns over the child’s first…
By Joseph C. Maroon, MD, and Jeffrey Bost, PA-C Concussion is defined as a complex pathophysiological process affecting the brain that is induced by traumatic biomechanical forces. Sport- and recreation-related concussions are conservatively estimated at 1.6 to 3.8 million cases…
By Sandra Blake Periventricular leukomalacia, or PVL, is an ischemic brain injury occurring in fetuses and newborn babies, both term and premature. Premature infants are at greater risk of developing PVL. PVL involves the white matter of the brain surrounding…
Carole Sénéchal, Ph.D. Serge Larivée, Ph.D. Engelbert Richard Pierre Marois, M.D. Hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBOT) has shown promise in clinical trials and is sought by many parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP). There is unusual resistance to expanding the…
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Medical Correspondent As doctors, we don't like to use the term "miracle" too much. Truth is if you look hard enough you will find a reasonable explanation as to why one person survives, when so…
By Shirley Vanderbilt Clinical trials have shown massage therapy as a viable complementary treatment positively impacting some of the characteristic behaviours of autism. Two important studies have emerged in this area within the past few years, both from the Touch…
By J. Scott Delaney, MD; D. L. Montgomery, PhD Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) is used in a sports medicine setting to reduce hypoxia and edema and appears to be particularly effective for treating crush injuries and acute traumatic peripheral ischemias. When…