How Contrecoup Injuries Affect the Brain. A contrecoup injury can cause injury to the brain in several ways, and it is possible that more than one mechanism is involved.

Frequently, aphasia follows a stroke, but it can also result from a traumatic brain injury; in my case, I suffered a “coup contrecoup injury with diffuse axonal shearing of the brain” — and ...

Once the body stops, the brain continues to move in the direction of the force, hitting the interior of the skull and then bouncing back into the opposite side, causing a coup-contrecoup injury.

And so every brain injury is different,” Kostrzewski said. “Mine’s considered a coup-contrecoup, so all four sides of my brain are damaged. So I learned to read, talk, walk again from 18 on.” ...

Greene sustained injuries deep in his brain stem and suffered a coup-contrecoup traumatic brain injury, which is caused when the brain bounces back and forth against the skull.

Concussion and brain injuries are hard to prevent in motorsports, but NeuroFlex is looking at ways to improve treatment, including virtual-reality goggles.

Writer Mira Bartok's memoir, The Memory Palace, is in part about the car accident that left her with traumatic brain injury and about her relationship with her schizophrenic mother. She explains ...

“Contrecoup” means a brain injury that happens on the opposite side from where the impact took place. The brain, which is essentially floating in the skull, likely bounced, ...

Olympic rowing gold medallist James Cracknell nearly died two years ago when he was hit by a petrol tanker while cycling across America. With 25 staples in his head and damage to his brain’s ...

Writer Mira Bartok's memoir, The Memory Palace, is in part about the car accident that left her with traumatic brain injury and about her relationship with her schizophrenic mother. She explains ...