Understanding Head Injuries: Types, Symptoms, and Prevention
Recent research is reshaping our understanding of brain injuries, showing that it's not just diagnosed concussions we need to worry about. Head acceleration events (HAEs)—impacts to the head that do not produce immediate symptoms—can still cause measurable neurological damage.
These subclinical or "silent" traumatic brain injuries (TBI) may not trigger visible signs at the time, but they initiate subtle inflammatory and structural changes in the brain that accumulate over time.