Archive for February, 2012

Continuous Memory Returns:End of Amnesia

Posted on February 6th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Continuous Memory Returns: Kelly Part Seven Kelly’s continuous memory returns is the discussion for part seven. There is sometimes just no logic to amnesia.  Kelly asserts that she has a clear memory of the pantomime of shooting the nurse, to be left alone. Yet she had a trach at the time, yet..
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The Thing Hockey Enforcer Couldn’t Beat In A Fight: Brain Injury

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

Pro hockey player Derek Boogaard was paid to fight. He made a living as a so-called “enforcer,” doing what other men are arrested for: Beating the living daylights out of his opponents. But ultimately, the game beat him — and his brain. Last May, Boogaard’s brothers discovered his body in his Minneapolis apartment. He was..
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While Watching Super Bowl, Think Of Concussion Suit by Tony Dorsett

Posted on February 4th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Well, the Associated Press has done the legwork, and gotten some of the stories behind, the batch of concussion-related lawsuits that have been filed by ex-players against the National Football League. These tales may put tomorrow’s football dog-and-pony show, the Super Bowl, in a new perspective. There have been many articles written..
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Physical Disability Secondary to Brain Injury

Posted on February 3rd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Physical Disability Secondary to Brain Injury: Kelly Part Six Kelly and I discussed how her physical disability secondary to brain injury and that the physical disability was attributed to his brain injury. You had the brain injury, the subdural hematoma.  Did you have any other physical disability secondary to brain injury as a..
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NFL’s Super Bowl Commercial: Rehabiltating An Image, Despite Suits

Posted on February 1st, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Brace yourself to see a commerical Sunday that you wouldn’t expect to pop up during the Super Bowl: An NFL ad on player safety. The league, according to The New York Times, has anted up several million dollars to produce the TV spot and a companion website, nfl.com/evolution. It looks like it is..
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