KINESIOL 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Loose Connective Tissue, Traumatic Brain Injury, Piracy In The Strait Of Hormuz
12 Apr 2016
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A concussion is a scalp injury, head trauma. Calvarium: skull cap, provides direct protecion for the brain, and forms join at sutres: yellow: parietal, blue: temporal, purple: frontal, green: sphenoid, back: occipital. There are tube like structures at the joints that give it the capacity to move and shit (important if there were ever a collecion of blood) Pterion: where all but occipital come into contact at the side of head, high risk area. The skull plate is thickest at the back, thinnest on the sides. Brain issue: composed of grey (outside) and white (inside) mater which have diferent densiies. Cranial nerves: if the brain moves, it afects the nerves because nerves serve as anchors to the skull, nerves exit through foreman if there is an injury therefore causing tracion. Spinal cord: comes up and expands to the brain, brain is anchored at the botom by the spinal cord. It is a funcional impairment rather than structural.
