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Speech Therapy for Brain Injury and Occupational Therapy

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapy for Brain Injury: Betty Part Five Perhaps because historically the speech therapy for brain injury issues after brain damage were among the most obvious, much of the hardcore cognitive rehabilitation after severe brain injury falls into the gamut of speech pathologists.  Betty received both speech therapy for brain..
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Brain Injury Physical Disability Comes with Severe Brain Injury

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Physical Disability: Betty Part Four Brain injury physical disability can come from severe brain injury.  Brain injury,  brain damage is thought of as a thinking disorder, a problem which effects memory, concentration. But the brain controls everything that we are, how we move, how we breath, the mechanism..
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Rehabilitation After Coma: Subdural Hematoma

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Rehabilitation After Coma Begins: Betty Part Three While Betty was receiving some type of rehabilitation after coma, at each point of her recovery journey, even while still in a coma, her recollection of that begins towards the end of her three months of inpatient stay. After discharge, she went to..
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TBI Coma: Impact on the Family of Waiting Out the Coma

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Coma Survivor: Betty Part Two One of the common denominators of all TBI coma cases is the shock of the phone call to the family.  Our page http://waiting.com written in 1997 begins with these words: “You have a phone call” “From the hospital.” he adds. Everything turns flat and..
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Brain Injury Coma Survivor Story: From College Girl to Coma Survivor

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Coma Survivor: Betty Part One – TBI Voices Begins its Second Story I have been doing brain injury representation for over 20 years, and there are times I swear that the condition is contagious.  Of course it isn’t, but  it is such a prolific tragedy, that as soon..
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Depression after Traumatic Brain Injury, Anxiety and Survival

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

Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury: Part Nineteen of Angela’s Story Angela explains her depression after traumatic brain injury: I didn’t know what depression was and I do know what depression is now.  Because depression is not what people think when they say, you know, your dog died and you’re sad,..
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Insight After Brain Injury of Oneself is Changed by Brain Damage

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

Insight After Brain Injury: Part Eighteen of Angela’s Story Angela’s Insight after brain injury of herself has dramatically changed: Insight after brain injury changes but not how you might expect.  I once heard a neuropsychologist say that the tragedy of a mild brain injury was that the survivor had such..
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Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury

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

Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury: Part Seventeen of Angela’s Story Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury is another issue Angela faces. If Angela can’t work, can she at least be a wife, a domestic partner?  Sadly, this is another role that despite her best efforts has proven to be too cognitively..
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Shopping After TBI – An Overload of the Decision Making Process

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

Shopping After TBI: Part Sixteen of Angela’s Story Shopping after TBI is a difficult thing for most brain injury survivors.  A store is a distraction filled world, with countless decisions to make, which most of us give little thought to. Those little decisions challenge the frontal lobes, interfering with memory..
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Brain Injury Emotions: Makes Others People’s Emotions Catastrophic

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

Brain Injury Emotions: Part Fifteen of Angela’s Story Angela’s Brain Injury Emotions caused another huge problem.  In any customer relations job she would be dealing with adverse emotions from customers. Handling angry customers has become very difficult.  Before the accident she could handle them with ease.  She now takes things..
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