More than of a million children are admitted at the hospital every year for brain injury. Since brain injury affects so many children, there have been many studies concerning the long term effects of brain injury on a person. A new study indicates that children who have a concussion or other traumatic brain injury are much more prone to developing headaches for a period of up to a year after the incident. This is different than children who have suffered from a bodily injury which indicates that they are much less likely to develop headaches. The results direct us to a difficult long term problem for children and their family because, according to researchers, there are no treatments to take care of the lingering headaches. Dr. Heidi Blume at the Childrens Research Institute in Seattle, Washington acknowledged that “Its an issue because they may have problems with sleep, and the headaches can make it harder to concentrate.”
Dr. Blume and her coworkers tracked more than 450 kids that were admitted into the emergency room due to brain injury accidents. Out of those over 450 children, 60 of those children had a moderate or severe injury whereas 402 had a mild injury. The children with brain injury cited many different causes including car accidents, falls, playing sports, and general rough play.
Dr. Blume and her colleagues compared all of the injury cases that they have seen and came up with some interesting data. Included in that data was a the information from diaries that Dr. Blume asked the children and their parents to keep which complied all of the headaches that they sustained over a period of a year. The data showed that after only three months, 43 out of every 100 kids who experienced some form of mild brain injury had headaches. Further, 37 out of 100 complained of headaches in the moderate or severe injury category.
The data is in direct conflict with what most doctors would foresee. More specifically, doctors are unsure how more headaches have been occurring in mild brain injury victims instead of severe brain injury victims. Karen Barlow of Alberta Childrens Hospital in Canada commented on this conundrum by stating that “That is a conundrum that we dont fully understand, but its been noted before” in research of adults. Barlow went on to explain that “There might be something about the moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries that interfere with the mechanisms of sensing pain, but we havent gotten to the bottom of that.” Thus, this data is still not known and researchers will continue to attempt to understand the full complexity of brain injuries.
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