For girls, concussion is more dangerous

Scientists have determined that for girls such a trauma as a concussion is much more dangerous than for boys. Girls are more impressionable and vulnerable: they are more often upset because of situations that practically do not hurt the boys. Concussions in childhood are more common than other injuries. Due to high motor activity, restlessness and curiosity, children often fall and hurt. During the year, no less than 120,000 children are treated by traumatologists with a similar diagnosis. The maximum number of concussions is recorded at school age: the total number of children among all patients who received concussion is 45%. Experts analyzed information about the health of athletes who had a history of concussion between eleven and eighteen years. A total of 110 male patients and 102 female patients were examined. According to the results of the study, it turned out that in girls the recovery after a craniocerebral injury was two times more complicated and longer. Perhaps, as doctors suggest, recovery in girls slows due to their reduced stress resistance and heightened anxiety. Experts determined that the affected boys showed signs of craniocerebral trauma for eleven days after the injury, and for girls - for twenty-eight days. At the same time, more than 70% of boys had practically no pathological signs of trauma after 20 days. Almost 60% of the girls even a month later had a number of symptoms of concussion. It has long been spread the information that any craniocerebral trauma (including brain concussion) in almost all cases complicates the previously obtained disorders in the body. So, pains in a head are aggravated, depressive states come back, anxiety amplifies, stress grows. Boys are less likely to suffer from such malfunctions and pathological conditions. According to scientists, it is this fact that explains the inhibition of the regenerative process in girls. "The results of our study only confirmed what the doctors who are involved in sports practice have guessed for many years," the leaders of the experiment say. "These findings point to the need for a more thorough and individual approach to therapy with brain concussions in children. The medical trauma specialist must isolate himself from the immediate craniocerebral trauma and try to understand the affected psycho-emotional reactions that interfere with the qualitative recovery of the child. " Unfortunately, often doctors mistaken and perceive depression and anxiety of the child, as ancillary signs of concussion. But the study puts everything in its place: the listed symptoms are primary and really represent an obstacle to the rapid restoration of brain structures after damage.

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