All posts tagged 'TBI'

Brain Injury Headaches Brought Severe Pain

Posted on January 16th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Brain Injury Headaches : Craig Part Seventeen  Craig discusses the pain involved with brain injury headaches.  Brain injury headaches so bad that they interrupt his sleeping and his vision.   One of the things that often gets lost in the shuffle when we talk, teach and counsel about brain injury, is..
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Cognitive Therapy: Learning to Avoid the Overwhelming

Posted on January 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Therapy: Craig Part Fifteen  Craig talks about the kind of cognitive therapy he received and the different issues that this type of therapy dealt with and helped him with. Now, you said you had a separate person that was helping you with cognitive therapy. Correct. The Difference Between Cognitive..
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Speech Therapy -Metronome Therapy for TBI Recovery

Posted on January 11th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapy – Metronome Therapy: Craig Part Fourteen   After bringing TBI Voices to one Florida support group, one of the vacillators of the group, a speech pathologist, had asked me to tour her facility.  While there, she had showed me the apparatus for metronome therapy for speech therapy.  But..
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TBI Symptoms:Physical Problems Masked TBI

Posted on January 10th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Symptoms: Craig Part Thirteen  Craig tells about how he had so many physical injuries caused by the accident that the TBI symptoms were masked by all his physical problems. Now, with respect to your arm or shoulder problem, there are physical injuries that you might have had in the..
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TBI Marital Problems: Marital Help Fell Thru Cracks

Posted on January 2nd, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Marital Problems: Craig Part Nine  To say that Craig’s TBI marital problems are a familiar story to me understates, the significance of that issue in my career. The first brain injured clients were not personal injury cases, but severe brain injury survivors who had been charged with domestic violence...
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Going Home After TBI: Only Vague Memories of Going Home

Posted on December 31st, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Going Home After TBI: Craig Part Eight   In Part Eight, Craig tells us about his experience with going home after TBI.  He has very little memory of this and what he does have is vague. Difficulties with Going Home After TBI Let’s get a sense of time.  You are..
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Before Traumatic Brain Injury: Who Was this TBI Survivor

Posted on December 21st, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Before Traumatic Brain Injury: Craig Part Four   Craig shares with us on who he was before traumatic brain injury and the dramatic changes in his life from before traumatic brain injury to after. At three weeks they think you’re stable enough to go home?  Yes. But you don’t stay..
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Frontal Lobe Damage: Drifting In and Out of Coma

Posted on December 20th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Frontal Lobe Damage: Craig Part Three  Craig Talks about the part of the brain that was damaged that caused his coma that he drifted in and out of.  In his case it was frontal lobe damage. What part of your brain did you injure?  What was the nature of your..
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Brain Injury Survival: Early Morning Drunk Collides with Family

Posted on December 18th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Survival: Craig Part Two    While this interview will delve into more than just the story of brain injury survival, it will evolve from the foundation of our normal interview approach: The Story of Craig’s Brain Injury Survival Caused by a Drunk Driver You’re a victim of brain..
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TBI Advocate: Out of Coma Emerges Leading TBI Advocate

Posted on December 17th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Advocate: Craig Part One My interview with Craig Sicilia of the TBI Survivor’s Network was more than another TBI Voice.  Craig’s interview was more than a story of his survival and recovery from brain injury.  It was an opportunity to be at the epicenter of change, to be a..
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