Damage to the Central Nervous System
| Autor: | Julia Taylor-Unterharnscheidt, Friedrich Unterharnscheidt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/b978-012709130-3/50052-3 |
| Popis: | This chapter discusses damage to the central nervous system that occurs during boxing. The effects of a head injury on the mechanism of remembering are of academic as well as practical importance. The process of being fully orientated and capable of correlating one event with the next requires the sequence of events to be remembered at least for a considerable time and requires a high grade of normal behavior by the brain. The classical or ordinary cerebral knockout is the result of a blow where the point of impact is the chin. The impact is transmitted to the base of the skull. A cerebral knockout consists of cerebral concussion with immediate unconsciousness and loss of tone and cases where a series of repeated blows to the head cause a pummeling knockout. It is found that a heavy blow may accelerate the head of a boxer sufficiently to produce the symptoms of a cerebral concussion or commotio cerebri, thereby precipitating immediate unconsciousness and a loss of muscle tone. |
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