Using screens can make headaches or eyestrain worse. Take a break from phones, computers and tablets for a couple days as you recover, if they make your symptoms worse. Ease back into regular activities. In most cases, it’s safe to return to light physical and mental activity after a ...
Both headaches and nausea can be treated with medications, although they may make a person feel more tired. Some healthcare professional may also want to perform a magnetic resonance imaging test (MRI) to look for residual injury that has not healed. Sometimes, the extent of brain injury may...
“I was 50, but I had to retire because these goddamn headaches don’t go away.” In July of that year, he walked out of Langley for the last time. Gradually, Polymeropoulos settled into his post-CIA life. He got a contract to write a book about leadership. A speaking agent ...
rather it is the mismanagement of the injury that is the problem. In other words it’s not the sports fault for concussions, it the people’s fault for not taking this brain injury serious. Even worse, it is people in positions of power that have caused...
It's been more than 20 months since 19-year-old Jenna Pietrantonio suffered her second hockey concussion. She's still not right.
"I can't help but look at the concussions I sustained as a reason for the headaches, the depression, the blurred vision, the slurred speech that I might have at some times," Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson told Outside the Lines. Carson, who played for the Giants from 1976 to ...
"You think, 'My headaches are gone. I can focus. I feel fine.' While in reality, there's still some stuff going on, and you don't know how long it's going to last." Bell himself sustained a concussion during the preseason and missed the last three games because of it. When h...
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I was getting headaches”. Another individual indicated: “I couldn’t be on a computer because of the screen. It kind of caused me to just put my life on halt, at a stop, at a standstill”. Participants also felt that sleep disturbance and fatigue following their injury disrupted their ...