Sports Medicine 1 Unit 9: Skull and Head Injuries

Frontal Lobe

Voluntary muscle movement, emotion, eye movement

Occipital Lobe

Vision

Parietal Lobe

Sensation

Temporal Lobe

Hearing, speech, and balance

Halo Sign

When CSF makes contact with gauze

Depressed Skull Fracture

Piece of skull pushed into brain, caused by something rigid

Linear Skull Fracture

Goes across the skull, a tear in the vascular structure, caused by blunt force trauma

Basilar Skull Fracture

Fracture of base of the skull (Temporal bone, occipital bone, sphenoid bone)

Concussion

Mild traumatic brain injury that affects brain function. Caused by deceleration of the head

Olfactory

Smell

Optic

Eyes/ visual activity

Oculomotor

Pupil Movement

Trochlear

Eye Movement

Trigeminal

Facial Sensation/Mouth

Abducens

Peripheral Vision

Facial

Face Movement/Taste

Vestibulocochlear

Balance/hearing

Glossopharyngeal

Swallowing/Talking

Vagus

Gag

Spinal Accessory

Neck+Shoulder Strength

Hypoglossal

Tongue strength