Treating Cognitive Deficits: Helena Part Six Identifying and Treating Cognitive Deficits The first major step towards recovery for Helena was the neuropsychologist for identifying and treating cognitive deficits. She explains: That was a very, very good experience. He spent time with me beforehand. I went through this four or five hours..
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TBI Treatment: Helena Part Five Support – family, friends, church – is a critical element to recovery. Yet, love and care is not enough. Recovery requires professional TBI treatment, or the equivalent, to enable a brain to reacquire the knowledge, the neural connections. As can be expected, getting TBI treatment was..
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Discharged After TBI: Helena Part Four One of the flaws in a system that pushes injured brain injury people out of the inpatient environment before recovery is well advanced, is that not everyone has a suitable place to go once they are discharged after TBI. As explained in the prior part,..
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TBI Therapy: Helena Part Three In part three we talk about the TBI therapy that Helena received in the hospital and as can be expected the lack of TBI therapy she received because of her insurance. There is always sadness secondary to any serious injury or surgery, more so for someone..
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Before Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Helena Part Two In one of the great compliments that can be paid to anyone, Helena has lived an interesting life, the brain injury perhaps adding another diverse chapter to it. She was a twice divorced woman before severe traumatic brain injury, with little family who..
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Traumatic Brain Injury Signature Wound of Iraq and Afghanistan The Los Angeles Times Sunday called tramatic brain injury (TBI) the “signature wound” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with 130,000 troops suffering such brain damage. But hope — in the form of a better helmet — may be on the..
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Music After Severe Brain Injury: Helena Part One Helena Realizes She Still Had the Music After Severe Brain Injury, in Her We have discussed in other stories the question of who survives. The story of Helena comes out strong on the side of the debate that the fundamental core person survives...
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Brain Injury Advocate: Gina Concludes in Part Fourteen Gina is in a unique position to discuss the issue of brain injury advocates, particularly self-advocacy. She not only is a TBI survivor who has a background in insurance, she is a survivor who went back to work in insurance, despite her brain..
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Frontal Lobe Dysfunction: Gina Part Thirteen When evaluating frontal lobe dysfunction it is best to interview what is called a collateral source (friends/family members). Frontal lobe problems are not sensitive to neuropsychological testing, as such tests measure only narrow facets of brain function. Further, as these measures are given in a..
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Brain Injured Survivors Don’t Tell Them How to Feel: Gina Part Twelve For Gina, like other brain injured survivors we have interviewed (See Elizabeth story) conversation, empathy is much easier with fellow brain injured survivors than with others. “I’ve gotten more empathy but it’s got to be people with brain injuries.” Another real..
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