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Comprehensive Head Evaluation and Vocabulary Guide

Learn about head assessment, from scalp to cranial nerves. Understand terms like comatose, anterograde amnesia, and more. Explore cranial anatomy and functions of the brain.

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Comprehensive Head Evaluation and Vocabulary Guide

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  1. Head Evaluation and Vocab Sports Med 2

  2. Head Vocabulary • Alert: awake and responds immediately and appropriately • Confused: impaired memory, disorientation and confusion • Lethargic: drowsy yet easily aroused, oriented to person, place and time • Stuporous: asleep most of the time, difficult to arouse, responds inappropriately • Semicomatose: no response to verbal stimuli, some response to painful stimuli • Comatose: no response

  3. Anterograde amnesia: length of time from injury until conscious memory returns • Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory of events that occurred before the injury • Immediate recall: can recite 4-5 words or numbers right after you say them • Tinnitus: ringing in the ears • Romberg’s Test: testing for intracranial damage

  4. Head Evaluation • Scalp • Mobility • Highly vascular • 5 layers

  5. Skull (2-6 mm) • 2 sections: cranium and face • Cranium consists of large flat bones • one frontal • one occipital • two sphenoid • two parietal • two temporal • Landmarks • External occipital protuberance (bump of knowledge) • Mastoid process

  6. Brain (3lbs) • Brainstem: medulla (heart, lungs motor), pons and midbrain (reflexes) • Cerebellum (small) • Motor function, balance, posture • Cerebrum (largest): • voluntary movements • sensory • motor functions • Consciousness depends on excitation of the cerebral cortex

  7. Meninges: layers of tissue that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord • Dura mater: dense, inelastic, outermost matter • Arachnoid membrane: thin, delicate membrane. Attached to the spinal cord by small tissue strands • Subarachnoid space: in between the arachnoid and the pia mater. Helps contain the spinal fluid • Pia mater: innermost layer • Cerebrospinalfluid: between arachnoid and pia mater (subarachnoid space) • Suspends brain • Cushions it from shock.

  8. Cranial Nerves • olfactory : smell • optic: vision • occulomotor: eye movement • trochlear: eye movement • trigeminal: head and face sensation • abducens: lateral eye movement • facial: taste, facial movements • acoustic: hearing and equilibrium • glosspharyngeal : taste • Vagus: taste • Spinal accessory: movement of head and shoulders • Hypoglossal: movement of the tongue • * On Old Olympus Towering Tops, A Finn And Greek Viewed Some Hops

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