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Introduction

The paper addresses the article written on “Detection of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Military Personnel”. The article highlights the health related issues that are faced by the US military forced after the war. It is important to look over the traumatic brain disease that is increasing among the forces. Critical Review

Traumatic Brain Injuries

Traumatic brain injuries, also known as brain injuries or head, are injuries that cause brain damage. Brain injury can occur in one of two ways:

Brain injury "closed" occurs when the head movement is stopped suddenly, as by striking the windshield of the car, or when you hit your head with a blunt object, which causes the brain to collide with intracranial bone surface. Brain injury "closed" can also occur without direct external trauma when the brain is subjected to a rapid movement forward or backward, as when the person suffers from a spinal injury or when a baby is shaken. Brain injuries "pervasive" occurs when an object pierces the skull that moves at high speed like a bullet. Both closed brain injury as the piercing can cause localized or diffuse damage in the brain.

Due to the participation in the war against Afghanistan and Iraq, the military had to face a number of psychological, mental as well as physical stresses that had led towards traumatic brain injury as well.

The Approach

Investigated the June 2 New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany.

We evaluated 84 were evacuated to Landstuhl U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan after exposure to various types of explosive sounds. Violations were found in 18 of 63 patients with mild traumatic brain injury, but not among the 21 injured by other means.

Teamwork against brain injury

A large study among veterans older generated new concerns about the apparently mild brain injuries suffered by hundreds of thousands of American soldiers by explosions in recent wars. Researchers believe they have discovered that concussions seem to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease with increasing age. The traumatic brain injuries are a legacy of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The body armor to help soldiers survive the bombings, but yet unknown long-term effects that could lead to these brain lesions.

Other studies found an increased rate of cognitive-mild problems, known as a "pre-Alzheimer's" in some retired football players, who often receive many blows to the head during their careers. The studies, which were discussed at the International Conference on Alzheimer's disease in Paris, seem to challenge the current view, which is considered only moderate to severe damage increases the risk of developing dementia in old age.

According to Mac Donald the medical records of about 281.540 veterans age 55 or older who receive care through the Office of U.S. Veterans Health from 1997 to 2000 and had at least one follow-up visit between 2001 and 2007. Not all participants were diagnosed with dementia when the study ...