Head injury definition

Head injury means a mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury and is not intended to include superficial injuries to the head or face that do not involve trauma or potential trauma to the brain.

Head injury means injuries to the scalp, skull, or brain caused by trauma, and shall include a concussion which is the most common type of sports-related brain injury.

Head injury means “Brain Injury,” as defined in these policies.

Examples of Head injury in a sentence

• The Accidental Head injury must result in an inability to perform at least three (3) of the following Activities of Daily Living either with or without the use of mechanical equipment, special devices or other aids and adaptations in use for disabled persons.

• The accident must be caused solely and directly by accidental, violent, external and visible means and independently of all other causes.The Accidental Head injury must result in an inability to perform at least three (3) of the following Activities of Daily Living either with or without the use of mechanical equipment, special devices or other aids and adaptations in use for disabled persons.

• Pursuant to Florida Statutes (FS 943.0438) Florida in 2012 enacted a very stringent Head injury and Concussion Law.

• The following are excluded: Spinal cord injury; and Head injury due to any other causes.

• The following are excluded:• Spinal cord injury; and• Head injury due to any other causes.

More Definitions of Head injury

Head injury means an insult to the skull or brain, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but one caused by an external physical force that may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness which results in impairment of cognitive abilities or physical functioning and possibly in behavioral or emotional functioning. It does not include cerebral vascular accidents and aneurysms.

Head injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects an individual’s educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem solving; sensory, perceptual and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech. The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative or brain injuries induced by birth trauma.

Head injury means a noncongenital injury to the brain

Head injury means any trauma to the head other than superficial injuries to the face.

Head injury means, for the purposes of this chapter, traumatic brain injury.

Head injury. Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults.”

Head injury means a bump, blow, or jolt to the head. If The child has sustained a minor injury that