Archive for June, 2011

Speech Problems After Severe Brain Injury

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

Speech Problems After Severe Brain Injury: Kevin Part Six The most noticeable deficit that Kevin has is his fluency with language.  As can be seen on any of his videos, his answers while always responsive and generally logical, were often delivered in a halting voice.   I asked him about his speech..
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Relearning to Walk After TBI in Brain Injury Rehab

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

Relearning to Walk After TBI: Kevin Part  Five In our stories, we focus on the physical manifestations of severe traumatic brain injury when relevant. As with most severe brain injuries, the physical is relevant for Kevin. In this part of the interview we talked to Kevin about relearning to walk after..
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Discharged from TBI Rehab Was Premature and Destroyed Family

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

Discharged from TBI Rehab: Kevin Part Four My first brain injury clients weren’t personal injury clients – they were severe TBI survivors who had been arrested for spousal battery, batteries that occurred largely because they were discharged from TBI rehab too early.  Ultimately all of those cases resulted in divorces, which negatively..
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Memories of Brain Injury Rehabilitation

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

Memories of Brain Injury Rehab: Kevin Part Three As we have discussed in most of our previous stories, the length of amnesia is the most significant indicator of severity of brain injury.  A loss of memory for more than a month indicates a very serious injury.  He was in University Hospital..
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Before Severe Brain Injury: About this Survivor

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

Before Severe Brain Injury: Kevin Part Two Before severe brain injury, Kevin was 34 when he got hurt – married with one child.  He had a job with the Morgan Corporation. What did you do at the Morgan Corporation before severe brain injury? I was a painter.  I painted truck bodies. ..
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Areas of High Functioning After Severe Brain Injury Interest Dependant

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

High Interest Equals High Functioning After Severe Brain Injury: Kevin Part One We have had two stories where music played an important role in the therapy and recovery of survivors from severe traumatic brain injury, Helena and Jeremiah.  Music therapy has an established and expanding role in the medical field.  Yet,..
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Self After TBI: Keeping the Good Part of Hisself

Posted on June 11th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Self After TBI: Jeremiah Conclusion Our interview concluded with Jeremiah’s thoughts about his self after TBI and the importance of the support that he received from his wife and others. As with most of my interviews, I concluded with Jeremiah, not with song, but with words he wanted to leave the..
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Lyrical Message of TBI: Integral Part of Recovery

Posted on June 9th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Lyrical Message of TBI: Jeremiah Part Eighteen Jeremiah shares with us his lyrical message of TBI in the songs that he has written and performs.  You can find these songs on the TBI website.   As Jeremiah had to relearn to walk, relearn to play the guitar, he also had..
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Songs After Brain injury: Writing Songs Therapy

Posted on June 6th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Songs After Brain injury: Jeremiah Part Eighteen In this part I talked to Jeremiah about his writing songs after brain injury. I asked Jeremiah to tell how music and writing songs after brain injury has helped him and the role it is playing in his life now: Music, little tidbits of..
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Making Music After TBI: Helps in Recovery

Posted on June 4th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Making Music After TBI: Jeremiah Part Seventeen I talked to Jeremiah’s wife off camera and we discussed how making music after TBI has helped in Jeremiahs recovery from severe TBI. One of the goals in doing TBI Voices was to not only document the stories of the survivor of brain injury, but..
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