Vanderbilt doctors diagnosed Rocchietti with a Grade 1 diffuse axonal injury, which is caused by tears in the connective brain fibers. He estimates he was awake for maybe an hour a day for the ...

Damage to blood vessels can lead to complications such as blood clots, further damaging brain tissue. Microscopic injuries like diffuse axonal injury and axonal injury can occur, often ...

TSSAA football players Declan Deering and Jaxon Rocchietti overcame brain trauma. They are co-recipients of the 2025 Tennessean Kaia Jergenson Courage Award.

The 2024-25 season was a bruising one for the Arsenal men’s team, and they may well bear some scars from it — quite literally. Many of their best players — Gabriel, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo ...

Finite Element Modeling Approaches for Predicting Injury in an Experimental Model of Severe Diffuse Axonal Injury. SAE Tech. Paper 107 (6), 2798–2810. doi:10.4271/983154 ...

Mild hypothermia has been shown to exert apparent neuroprotective effects in animal models of diffuse axonal injury. However, the clinical efficacy of mild hypothermia is controversial. Thus, a ...

"It's the worst form of head injury being hit head on in a motor vehicle accident. And your head hits the window or hits the side of the car, your brain is shaken and you get sever brain injuries ...

Rocchietti has brain function and has been able to sleep after being diagnosed with a Grade 1 diffuse axonal injury, his father, Matt, said. DAIs are caused by tears in the connective brain fibers.

One of the most common forms of traumatic brain injury, diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a type of injury that results from the hearing of the brain tissues. This occurs in the traumatic moments of an ...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the hypothesis that the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) values combined with initial clinical factors indicates the depth of shearing lesions in the brain ...