Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury: Zach Part Eleven In part eleven Zach and I discussed the pain he suffered and how walking was the source of most of his pain after traumatic brain injury. How long were you in Spaulding? Two months. So it’s middle of July when you got out?..
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Speech Pathology: Zach Part Ten Speech pathologists are some of the true trench warriors of brain injury recovery. They not only deal with the language challenges that come after brain injury, but they must also address physical deficits that can come both from the primary brain injury, but also from other..
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OT After TBI: Zach Part Nine Zach also needed significant OT after TBI. While the distinction between OT and PT can be blurred, the essential difference is that the occupational therapist takes the recovering muscles and body systems and focuses therapies on doing specific tasks, the occupation or application of those..
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Physical Injury in Addition to Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Eight In addition to the brain injury, you had some physical injury? A broken jaw? I had like I shattered my foot. So when I was learning how to walk again, they didn’t want me to have to stay off..
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Brain Injury Rehab: Zach Part Seven All right, let’s talk about your period of brain injury rehab when you were at Spaulding. What do you remember? Well I remember being confined to a wheelchair for almost a month. So I had no means of transportation beside the wheelchair. That was, it..
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Doug Part Five – Living Each Day After Recovery from Coma http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/day-to-day-after-coma/ Doug’s typical day begins at 7:30 to take medication. He handles fixing breakfast and dinner on his own; lunch is sent from the healthcare center to give him a break from preparing one of his daily meals. Other..
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Severe Weight Loss after TBI : Zach Part Six In part six I discussed the physical problems that occurred such as severe weight loss after TBI along with muscle atrophy. From what you’ve told me, you had a brain pressure problem, probably a hematoma where you said the blood accumulation was...
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Pre-brain Injury Teen: Zach Part Five In part five we talked about what kind of life Zach had as a pre-brain injury teenager and the kind of activities he was involved with. We talked about sports in high school. You were a good student in your pre-brain injury teen years?..
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Pre-Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Four One of the things that makes Zach’s story compelling is the portrait of such a young and dynamic man pre-severe brain injury – baseball star, homecoming queen, party animal. He had much to lose and came close to losing it all. While I enjoyed the..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Three Zach believes that his amnesia after severe brain injury ends and he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma. For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is..
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