Know What Head Trauma Is And Who It Affects The Most

Head trauma continues to be a subject that is giving rise to enormous amount of concern - even in spite of much advancement taking place in medicinal sciences in this twenty-first century. Of course, the majority of cases of such form of trauma (amounting to an estimated seventy-five to eighty percent) relate to those who have suffered minor injuries to the head; however, the remaining twenty odd percent of head trauma cases refer to injuries that range from moderate to quite severe.

High Cost

Society today is paying a high cost because of head trauma cases – both from an economic perspective as well as from an economic point of view. The sad truth is that every person that has suffered severe head trauma is going to find them being disabled for life; in cases of moderate head trauma instances, about two thirds of these cases also end up causing permanent disabilities for the concerned persons.

The US economy has to suffer on account of such forms of head trauma and it is paying a huge cost in paying for the care of patients suffering from such form of trauma, which, with the exception of inpatient care, means that the total cost is going to be in the region of over twenty-five billion dollars per year. What is even more alarming is the fact that most of the affected head trauma patients happen to be young people as well as adolescents.

In the US, head trauma cases occur at a frequency of about one hundred and eighty to two hundred and twenty cases per one hundred thousand people and with the total US population amounting to an estimated three hundred million people, it is expected that there would be about six hundred thousand new head trauma patients each year of which an estimated ten percent injuries lead to death.

The most common causes of head trauma seems to be automobile accidents, falls, and sports inflicted injuries, assaults as well as penetrating trauma. However, automobile accidents account for an estimated fifty percent of all US head injury cases and many of these accidents occur in suburban as well as rural settings. In US cities that have populations in excess of one hundred thousand people falls, assaults as well as sports inflicted injuries are the most common reasons for suffering from head trauma.

It is also necessary to learn about how to properly manage instances of pediatric head trauma because head injuries in children are a most serious cause for their mortality and morbidity. Head injury cases in fact, occur twice as much in the case of males as compared to females and such form of trauma is most common amongst people that are in their early thirties.

Trauma: It’s A Wolf Taking Over Your Being In The Garb Of Sheep’s Clothing

Trauma can best be likened to a wolf that exists in your heart and mind in the garb of sheep’s clothing. Much like in Aesop’s fable, the wolf, when it cannot get at the sheep that were being guarded by a shepherd and his dogs, decided upon coming across a discarded sheep’s skin, to don this new clothing and so was able to give the shepherd and his dogs the slip and could easily mingle with the sheep.

Appearances Can Be Deceptive

This made one of the lambs follow the wolf whom the latter soon devoured for his next meal and in doing so, found a simple way of deceiving the sheep, the shepherd and the dogs. Appearances can certainly be deceptive and the same is applicable for us humans. Often we are under the impression that we know the cause of things that make us struggle and in many instances these causes can even be very obvious to us. However, the truth of the fact is that we are, in many cases, unable to truly find out what is bothering us.

Trauma is one such thing and it is certainly very much like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You may feel quite confident and show this to the outside world; however, inside, you may be experiencing pain as well as be consciously as well as unconsciously hiding something – more often than not it is trauma.

Trauma is something that is seldom kind to you and it certainly is not tame and it can end up haunting you – often, without your even being aware of it because it is hidden beneath behaviors that are best described as addictive and these behaviors, like the wolf in sheep’s clothing, can take on a very different form to what they really are.

Trauma is often caused by abuses – both physical as well as sexual - and it can cause a person to behave much like an addict does. The conscious mind has to struggle to ascertain the true reason why a person starts to behave like an addict. In fact, addictive behavior is often a means to cover up the pain caused by trauma and this behavior can be motivated - both consciously as well as unconsciously.

For those who have or are suffering from head trauma it will pay to get a second opinion as this second opinion can help in saving your life as well as help you regain your independence. Otherwise, trauma, when left to its own devices, will overpower you with pain and will prevent you from overcoming your addictive behavior. In addition, it will certainly not allow you to live life normally and you will also not be able to maintain a healthy perspective on life.