Severe Brain Trauma

On March 24th 1985 a young African-American man approached Michele Mallin at her car and asked her if she could help him start his car with jumper cables. Michele Mallin responded to him by telling him that she did not have any cables, the man then proceeded to unlock her door by reaching in through her car window. Mallin screamed and bit his thumb. He then took out a knife and held it to her throat to subdue her and to make her lay down on the floorboard of the car. He got in her car drove to a field just outside of town.

In the story “Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburbs” by Bernard Lefkowitz describes the events of Leslie a mentally ill woman that was raped by the treasured group of high school athletes in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. The gang rape occurred on March 1, 1989. Leslie left her house in the afternoon to go play basketball in the park. When she arrived at the park, many of the school 's athletes were there, either watching or taking part of baseball practice. One of the boys Chris Archer approached her and asked her to come down to a basement of a nearby house for a party.

The woman was taken to St Vincent’s hospital with injuries sustained from physical restraint. She remains there in a stable condition. The suspect was described

On March 3, 1963, an 18 year old female was walking home from her job when she was grabbed and thrown in the back seat and tied up. She then was driven around for 20 minutes before the car stopped and the man raped her. After raping her he then dropped her back off at the spot at which he had kidnapped her at. (Greenwood, 5.5) After investigating the crime for ten days, police arrested a 23 year old man named Ernesto Miranda in his own home.

Mike Cameron suffered from a brain injury August 11, 2005. The two outfielders Mike Cameron and Carlos Beltran, running at full speed, both dive after a fly ball and collided face first. Cameron was disabled because of multiple injuries and needed surgery to repair facial fractures. Beltran was diagnosed with a concussion and a minimally non-displaced fracture of a facial bone, which did not require surgery. He suffered temporary loss of vision and two broken

The sexual assault of the Central Park

In July 1985 at approximately 3 o’clock in the afternoon Penny Beerntsen started her run along the Lake Michigan shoreline. And was apprehended by an unknown man where she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted. At Memorial Hospital, Penny was getting her wounds examined

Anna Garcia’s first injuris from the Autpsy is blunt trama to the head, the wound is indicative of fall on a soild object. The second injuries from the autpsy in oxygen deprivation from. Anna Garcia’s face is genralized pallor. The third injuries from the antopsy report is swelling of ankles visable. That really show’s that due to heart failure.

Article of the week #3 The Title of the first article “86 of 91 Tested Ex-NFL players Had Brain Disease Linked To Head Trauma” caught my eye because it stated something that was not surprising to me because football is a very dangerous sport. The first sentence itself is an eye grabber and it gives a great overview to the whole article it states “Eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease that I believed to be linked with repeated head trauma and concussions, researchers said. ”(Gallagher). That sentence made me think about what is going on behind the scene and on the field because I am not a football fan and when I do watch football it’s the super bowl

There are estimated to be between 1.6 and 3.8 million sports related concussions in the United States every year (prevacious.com). Is there a way to stop this? Team doctors are responsible for the long term effects of concussions in football players. Most of the concussions are coming from football, the concussion rate is 64 to 76.8 and 33 percent of these injuries are happening in practiced and not in games (Headcasecpmpany.com). Most of these concussions are happening because they can 't defend themselves from the hard hits or the balls hitting them or just falling to the ground hard.

Brain Injury in Professional Football A reportable concussion had been described as change in brain function induced by trauma. It was demonstrated by: first, altered consciousness, including being amnesic, confused, or rendered insentient. Second, symptoms and signs usually accompanying post-concussion syndrome, such as, persistent headaches, impaired balance, syncope, cognitive dysfunction, hearing loss, blurred vision, drowsiness, lethargy, fatigue, memory disturbance, and difficulty in carrying out routine activities (Casson, Viano and Powell 471). The Concussion Legacy Foundation disclosed that CTE, a degenerative brain disease caused by brain trauma, had been diagnosed among football players from more than 100 college football programs (Concussion Legacy Foundation).

People that suffer from head trauma like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) have long term consequences but how does this affect their life and what are people suggesting to do about it? ALS and CTE are two forms of diseases to the brain that causes severe symptoms such as muscle weakness, memory loss, shortness of breath, and confusion. ALS is a rare disease with fewer than 20,000 cases per year found in the U.S. This type of disease affects nerve cells in the brain and in the spinal cord. CTE is some what similar to ALS but this other disease is commonly found in athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma.

Concussion Problems in the Sports World Today Concussions are a threat to long-term health. New precautions are being taken to diminish the traumatic effects in athletes. As much as there is against precautions being effective, new rules/ precautions are preventing and curing concussions; also leaving no long- The new treatments are curing concussions, and they are reducing the long-term effects according to “UPMC’s concussion program patients make a full, complete recovery.” (outsideonline.com ) “UPMC and a handful of other concussion clinics across the country have developed a battery of active therapies that challenge patients’ vision, balance, and concentration.”

He was airlifted to a neurosurgical trauma center at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. There was pressure on the skull and presents of brain swelling and a subdural hematoma, this is a collection of blood build up in the brain. He was in the hospital for 98 das, and suffered many other major problems related to his brain injury. He had softening of certain affected areas in the brain, low blood pressure, kidney failure, pneumonia, the dangerous infection sepsis, temporary cardiac arrest and an inability to walk and talk. Years later, he has regained most of his speech but still has some cognitive problems and uses a wheelchair to get

The Central Park Five is the story of five teenagers, 14 to 16, four of whom were African American and the other of Hispanic origin, who were wrongly accused and convicted of the sexual assault of a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. Prior to the assault, these teenagers were detained by police officers in connection with the large number of assaults in Central Park committed by a group of roughly around 25 teenagers. Although they were not engaging in the criminal activities of the group, they were still brought into the Central Park Precinct. On the same night of questioning, a woman was reported to have been assaulted and raped. After hours of aggressive interrogation, all five of them confessed to the attacks in the park and incriminated