Archive for March, 2011

The Puck Stops Here: NHL Refuses To Ban Blows To The Head

Posted on March 20th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

The dust has settled on its meeting last week, and the bottom line is this: The National Hockey League has still refused to totally ban hits to the head. The horrific concussions sustained by Sidney Crosby and Max Pacioretty didn’t sway the NHL. Air Canada and Via Rail’s theats to pull their ads..
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Second Brain Injury in Contrast to the First TBI

Posted on March 20th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Second Brain Injury: Elizabeth Part Two In contrast to the severity of her first injury, her second brain injury was seemingly mild. The second brain injury occurs just a week past the third anniversary date of her severe TBI, on March 10, 2005. Elizabeth explains: I went to work, I was..
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Second TBI Leaves a Lifetime of Disability

Posted on March 19th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Second TBI : Elizabeth Story Begins One of the major puzzles about brain injury is the miracle recovery after life threatening, profound brain injuries, contrasted against the tragic outcomes that occur after seemingly insignificant concussions or second TBIs. I wrote about such issue more than a decade ago at https://tbilaw.com/essays-mildsevere.html For..
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Community Reintegration: Important to Become Part of the Community

Posted on March 18th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Community Reintegration: Doug Part Eight One of the most important factors to recovery for a TBI survivors the community reintegration.  Our philosophy is to ensure the best outcome after a TBI, the post morbid plan has to simulate the growth in behavior and maturity that we experience as children and young..
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Vocational Reintegration after Severe Brain Injury

Posted on March 17th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Vocational Reintegration: Doug Part Seven Key to good long-term outcomes after TBI, is continued cognitive challenges to rewire damaged circuitry within the brain and create a renewed self actualization. We believe that the two critical keys to achieve those goals is through vocational reintegration and community reintegration. Doug is someone we..
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Seizure Medications and Headaches After TBI

Posted on March 16th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Seizure Medications: Doug Part Six One long-term concern for Doug is seizure and headaches. He takes the Depakote for his  seizure medication. He talks about the Depakote seizure medication: Well just before I was going to leave Clearview, I had what they classified was a seizure. When I moved here to..
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Post Coma: Day-to-Day Life After Post Coma

Posted on March 15th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Post Coma: Doug Part Five What does a normal day consist of for Doug post coma? Doug talks about his daily routine post coma and  his traumatic brain injury. Let’s see, my alarm usually goes off at 7:30 because that’s when I got to take my pills. They have me taking Depakote..
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Transition to the Real World: Rehab Plays a Big Part

Posted on March 14th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Transition to the Real World: Doug Part Four Like our other participant Chris, Doug also found that Clearview in Juneau played a big part in his transition to the real world. At Clearview, I was there for 13 months and I got a, pretty much got therapy there, therapy 6 days..
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Bacolofen Pump for Spasticity Caused by TBI

Posted on March 13th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Bacolofen Pump for Spasticity: Doug Part Three Before we get into talking about the Bacolofen Pump for spasticity we will talk about what spasticity is and what causes it. The biggest limitation that Doug has with his left arm, his whole left side is spasticity. Spasticity means the inability of a..
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Will NHL General Managers Do The Right Thing Regarding Concussions?

Posted on March 12th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

National Hockey League general managers will be on the hot seat next week, pressured to put more teeth into a new rule regarding checks to the head, according to The New York Times.   http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/general-managers-likely-to-address-hits-to-head/?ref=sports The GMs, who are holding their annual meeting in Florida, are not likely to ban hits to the head,..
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