Brain
Injury Treatment
"New
Brain Injury Treatment Being Studied"
September 25, 2003
Scientists have been discussing what is being
considered the world’s first clinical trial
to use the hormone progesterone as a treatment
for moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
Every year, 50,000 Americans die because of a
traumatic brain injury and 80,000 more Americans
become disabled. Some brain injury treatments
can include barbiturates, mannitol, and surgery,
but these methods are last-resort and do not always
work.A
Daily
life can become severely disrupted because of
a brain injury and tasks such as concentrating
or memory can become problematic. In animal studies,
progesterone was able to improve memory and cognitive
thinking skills after suffering a brain injury.
The rats had less brain swelling and were able
to better recover when treated shortly after the
brain injury.
The
progesterone was able to moderate the brain injury
inflammation that can lead to dangerous head swelling
after a brain injury. After a traumatic brain
injury is suffered, damaging chemicals called
free radicals appear to be slowed and sometimes
blocked by the use of progesterone. The secondary
injury after the initial brain injury trauma is
what can cause increases in brain injury size
and lead to death, but progesterone brain injury
treatment seems to protect the brain from nerve,
neuron, and other brain cell breakdown.
For
more information on brain injury treatment, please contact
us to confer with a lawyer.
More
Brain Injury News..
September
30, 2003, "New
Brain Injury Drug on Fast Track Status"
If
you, or someone you know, have suffered any cognitive,
physical, and/or emotional symptoms as a result
of a traumatic brain injury and would like to
know if you are entitled to receiving compensation,
please contact
us !! A Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer will
be in touch with you as soon as possible.
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