Archive for January, 2012

Attention After TBI: Memory and Attention Issues

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

Attention After TBI: Part Twenty-Three  TJ talks about how is memory is better than it ever was.  He does have trouble with attention after TBI in certain situations although though as I did the interview,  I had his full attention. What problems do you have with your memory? It’s fair..
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Perpetual Restrictions After TBI: Trouble Adjusting

Posted on January 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Perpetual Restrictions After TBI: TJ Part Twenty Two In part twenty-two TJ talks about the perpetual restrictions after TBI that he faces in comparison before his severe brain injury. TJ’s Perpetual Restrictions After TBI What else is different about your life?  Living here at home.  I haven’t been at home since..
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Social Life After a TBI: Difficult to Find

Posted on January 13th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Social Life After a TBI: TJ Part Twenty-One One of TJ’s highest areas of pre-brain injury interest was his social life, particularly with members of the opposite sex.  Brain injury can dramatically impact a survivor’s love life and social life after a TBI.  TBI can impact a survivor’s sexuality physically and ..
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First Pearce, Now Burke, Fall Victim Of Brain Injury On The Half-Pipe

Posted on January 13th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Park City, Utah, has again become the scene of tragedy involving traumatic brain injury (TBI) and young athletes. As The New York Times pointed out Thursday, roughly two years ago champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained TBI in an accident in Park City. And on Tuesday, Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke fell and hit..
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Seizure Symptoms After TBI: Mood – Possible Seizure Symptoms

Posted on January 12th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Seizure Symptoms After TBI: TJ Part Twenty Along with some of TJ’s interests we also discussed whether or not he had any seizure symptoms after TBI.  We touch on how his mood swings could possibly be seizure symptoms after TBI. Progress in rehabilitation has a lot to do with motivation.   Yet, one of..
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Recovery from Severe Brain Injury Is Ongoing

Posted on January 11th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Recovery from Severe Brain Injury Is Ongoing : TJ Part Nineteen The textbooks say – the doctors are taught – brain injury recovery happens primarily in the first year and is largely over by the end of the second.  Our stories paint a much brighter picture of continuing recovery with..
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Few Words After TBI: He Became a Man of Few Words

Posted on January 10th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Few Words After TBI: TJ Part Eighteen While talking with Michelle, TJ’s step-mom, we delved into the issue of TJ being a man of few words after TBI. She states he is very direct with answers and doesn’t use a lot of words. I probed further on the literacy issue in my..
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Brain Injury Communication:Issues a Source of Frustration

Posted on January 9th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Communication: TJ Part Seventeen For TJ’s parents, it is the neurobehavioral extremes that have been the biggest challenge.  TJ doesn’t share that insight.  For him it is a concrete problem of frustration stemming from brain injury communication failures. Do you have problems with depression?  No. So you never get sad?..
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Higher Functioning After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on January 5th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Higher Functioning After Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part Sixteen TJ has been fortunate to be in an environment, in a family, a community, a support group that gives him not just support, but challenges that give him a focus, motivation,higher functioning after severe brain injury and out of the house. His medical..
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Concussion Wouldn’t Stop Dielman From Pursuing A Super Bowl Win

Posted on January 5th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Chargers Dielman Says His Concussions Would Stop Him Football has been called a gladiator sport, and it inspires the kind of bravado that San Diego Chargers Kris Dielman recently expressed. In an interview with the Associated Press Dielman,  who was benched for 10 games after he sustained a concussion, said he would be..
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