A veteran cyclist, who couldn’ t remember how and why he crashed while riding among the redwoods in California, found a way to put together the pieces. He used his GPS. John Markoff wrote a first-person story for The New York Times last week about the memory loss he suffered after..
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The last alternative of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Acute Event element, is the focal neurological deficit. Focal, (meaning restricted to one particular part of the body), neurological deficit, (meaning something wrong in the way in which the nervous system is responding), is the one element that the best..
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Assessing Retrograde Amnesia: Nancy Part Nine Throughout TBI Voices, we have been assessing retrograde amnesia and post traumatic amnesia (also called anterograde amnesia) in each survivor. That is considerably more difficult with Nancy, perhaps because she was a child, perhaps for other motivational reasons. Regardless, what she reports in assessing retrograde..
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Hospital For Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part 8 While not all prayers are ever answered after any brain injury, Nancy while still in the hospital for severe brain injury wasn’t given more than she or her family could handle. But the challenges got greater as her awareness returned. She is in..
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Coma After Brain Surgery: Nancy Part Seven Drug induced coma after brain surgery may be necessary to prevent further injury, especially because of the radical movement that can occur because of the agitation that is secondary to lower levels of consciousness. With Nancy this was done at the time she was..
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About Skull Fracture: Nancy Part Six In part six I talked to Nancy’s mom about what was to come once she realized the seriousness of her injuries. We talked about skull fracture and brain surgery. While Nancy’s friends and family were shocked at her appearance, Mom was somewhat prepared: You had..
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Any Alteration in Consciousness. Confusion, acting unusual. Not just at the scene, but hours later. Repeating themselves. Difficulty with Routine Tasks If the inquiry does not identify a period of loss of consciousness, it may very well identify a change in mental state, such as being dazed or confused. Here..
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Pat Summitt, the veteran women’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, made a remarkable and brave admission last month. She told the world that she has Alzheimer’s disease. Summitt, who is only 59, announced her diagnosis through a letter and video clip posted on the university’s website. She was..
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Emergency Room Misdiagnosis I have become increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of missed diagnosis of brain injuries. Seemingly several times a month, I come into contact with another client whose brain injury was not diagnosed in the emergency room. Despite significant symptoms of a brain injury, survivors are discharged with..
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