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TBI Survivor Uses Internet to Assist with Brain Injury Disability

From a former client Cindy, a consistent source of ideas and content for my blogs. Cindy has found a novel way to use the internet to deal with day to day obstacles, brain injury survivors encounter. Hi Everyone, I am a TBI survivor, going on almost 4 years now. Two of the hardest things for ...

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Another Service Dog Story

It is no surprise to me, that people are more open talking about their pets than themselves. We often enjoy hearing about them more too.. On May 1, 2008, at 7:50 PM, PR Latenser wrote: I noted your blog comments where you defended service dogs… Let me tell you about our service dog.She is an ...

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The Emotional Adjustment to Brain Injury

EDITORS NOTE: Continuing with this week’s theme of the emotional impact of brain injury, I have another post from a TBI advocate/survivor I want to share. Kimberly was referenced on our blogs a few weeks ago with respect to seizure dogs and she started following our blogs at that time. Hello, Mr. Johnson: My name ...

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Emotional Issues After TBI

This week, we will focus on emotional issues after TBI. I will begin with a contribution from an old TBI from entitled Hope For Anger by Stephanie St. Claire: There is help and hope for out of control anger. I no longer put holes in doors trying to get through them to the person I ...

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Patterns of Footprints of Brain Injury

Diagnosing brain injury in absence of a continuing loss of consciousness, is a matter of triangulating behavioral observations, scientific test results and objective measuring tools for the change in function correlated with brain injury. The most important piece of the diagnostic puzzle is the clinical judgment of a doctor experienced with brain injured people. In ...

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Footprints of Invisible Brain Injury

Last week, we talked about the term “invisible injury” as used by the Brain Injury Association, to describe brain injury and its application to discrimination against seizure dogs. That topic transitions to today’s blog about how we identify an “invisible injury”, such as brain injury. So how do we see the invisible? Well if we ...

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Seizure Dogs and Brain Injury/Seizure Disorders

I have never been a big fan of the politically correct terms when discussing brain injury, hence my own coining of the term ©Subtle Brain Injury in 1999. See http://subtlebraininjury.com Having served on several boards where all they did was argue about what were the appropriate 30 words to put in a mission statement or ...

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Sport Concussion Guidelines have Migrated to Accidental Injuries

Most of the focus on changing definition of concussion has come out of concern about concussions in sport. Thru that work, beginning in the early 1990’s, it became standard practice that if an individual suffered a concussion in a sporting event, they should not be allowed to return to competition until certain objective criteria of ...

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Brain Injury and Locked-In Syndrome

In yesterday’s blog, I talked about the exception to my skepticism about miracle recoveries, years post a coma causing event. The exception is in the cases of “locked in syndrome”. The National Institute of Health contains this definition of Locked-Iin Syndrome: What is Locked-In Syndrome?_Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterized by complete paralysis ...

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What is a Mild Brain Injury?

Head injuries (or otherwise called brain injuries) have been traditionally classified into three categories, mild, moderate and severe. Mild head injuries are typically brain injuries that do not involve loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes. Moderate involve significant loss of consciousness, but not do not involve extended coma. Severe brain injuries are those ...

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