A Johns Hopkins study has found that the elderly who suffer major head trauma during a weekend are more likely to die of their injuries than those similarly hurt, but hospitalized during the week,” even if their injuries are less severe and they have fewer other illnesses than their weekday..
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Should lightweight aluminum bats be used in Little League games? The family of a Wayne, N.J., boy who sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being hit by a ball during a game in 2006 doesn’t think so. A trial on the issue has been set for Sept. 10 in state..
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Part Twelve: the frontal lobe deficit of too much talking http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/uncontrolled-talking-after-tbi-logorrhea/ One major problem with brain injury diagnosis, is that the methodologies rarely take into account real world communication challenges that many brain injured people have. One such issue with Angela is logorrhea, a tendency to talk too much,..
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Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball, recovering from a concussion after being assaulted by a group of men in Madison, will not be able to start practice on Monday, according to several published reports. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8228580/wisconsin-badgers-coach-says-montee-ball-ready-camp The news was revealed by Badgers’ coach Bret Bielema during the taping of a TV..
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In Part Eleven Angela’s own words on the consequences of TBI. http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/from-a-butterfly-to-a-tbi-survivor/ In another of Angela’s essays, she analogizes her post brain injury transformation to that of a caterpillar to a butterfly, but in reverse. Her musing traverses the question of whether she is starting over in a..
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Part Ten discusses cognitive challenges: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/stress-interacts-with-other-cognitive-challenges-after-tbi/ Stress can be extremely attentionally taxing and Angela’s memory problems increase whenever she is under stress. She would think things were under control, until the stress kicked. Stress would almost paralyze her brain, even though she knew that she should know what to..
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Concussions can age your brain, according to a study by the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20658-concussions-and-head-impacts-may-accelerate-brain-aging In fact, according to the announcement on the school’s website, even lesser head impacts “may speed up the brain’s natural aging process by causing signaling pathways in the brain to break down..
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