Archive for 'Trauma'
The All-Important Trauma Kit
7 December 2007Whether an accident is a single-occupant car crash or the crash of a large passenger jet, the lives at risk are dependent on the supplies in the trauma kit as much as on the training of those who carry one to the scene. The trauma kit is an emergency room in a bag that arrives [...]
What Is Trauma Counseling?
6 December 2007After any kind of traumatic event, adults and children alike can find it hard to cope with the aftermaths of the situation. A traumatic event can be anything from a car crash to a natural disaster but can lead to difficulty moving on and victims can even experience flashbacks and anxiety attacks while [...]
The Essential Trauma Care
5 December 2007Trauma mean injury in Latin and it basically covers any type of injury you may have encountered. However, today, many times traumas will be referred to injury of the mind and not physical such as, psychological trauma, brain trauma and/or vicarious trauma. Irrelevant of the type of trauma you are suffering, the only way to [...]
Therapy Trauma: When Certain Forms Of Treatments Become So Horrible For You To Accept
4 December 2007Just because a certain treatment is meant to make a patient recover more easily from a certain malady doesn’t mean that such form of treatment could not affect the patient in some other way. According to studies, there are many patient who had gone through certain types of treatments develop that so called “therapy trauma” [...]
The Tragedy of Spinal Chord Trauma
3 December 2007Together with the brain, the spinal chord constitutes the central nervous system of the body. Only about 18 inches long, it stretches from the base of the brain about to the waist. It contains the nerves that convey messages from the brain to the spinal nerves along the spinal tract and back again. The nerves [...]
