Question:
The term head injury also includes injuries to the brain. Most of us know someone who has a head injury of one severity or another, including repeat concussions from rugby, blows to the head from various sources, and these are things that cause the rebounding injury to the brain where it bounces off the inside of the skull. Ongoing symptoms of what IS called a head injury are the fogetfulness we see, mixing up words, frustration of not being able to complete sentences and so on. The one where the cops see a dead baby in the hospital and know that it has head injuries before any post-mortem had taken place. How would a cop know a head injury had occurred it the injury was intnernal?

Answer: A head injury is any trauma that leads to injury of the scalp, skull, or brain. These injuries can range from a minor bump on the skull to a devastating brain injury.

Head injury can be classified as either closed or penetrating. In a closed head injury, the head sustains a blunt force by striking against an object. A concussion is a type of closed head injury that involves the brain.

In a penetrating head injury, an object breaks through the skull and enters the brain. (This object is usually moving at a high speed like a windshield or another part of a motor vehicle.)

Head injury refers to any damage to the scalp, skull, or brain. There are two general categories of head injuries: closed and penetrating. A closed head injury is one in which the skull is not broken open. For example, a boxer who receives a blow to the head may experience brain damage even though the skull is not damaged. This is a closed head injury. In a penetrating injury, the skull is broken open. For example, a bullet wound to the brain causes damage to the skull as well as to the brain. It is classified as a penetrating head injury. Both closed and penetrating head injuries can cause damage that ranges from mild to very serious. In the most severe cases, head injury can result in death.