Neurotrauma Program
Phoenix Children’s treats over 250 brain and spine injuries a year. The most common types of injuries include:
Bleeding within the brain tissue.
The most frequent kind of traumatic brain injury. A concussion means a temporary loss of brain function and can cause a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms.
When brain damage occurs over a more widespread area than the immediate location of the brain injury.
The buildup of blood between the dura mater (the tough outer membrane of the central nervous system) and the skull.
More frequently seen in our Neuro-NICU, Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is spontaneous bleeding occurs inside or around the ventricles (the spaces within the brain containing the cerebral spinal fluid).
A skull fracture is a break in the skull bone.
A spinal cord injury is any injury to the bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
The buildup of blood in the outermost meningeal layer, between the dura mater (the tough outer membrane of the central nervous system), which adheres to the skull, and the arachnoid mater (the middle membrane of the central nervous system) enveloping the brain.