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Sleep Post TBI: Sleep After Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on January 21st, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Sleep Post TBI: Craig Part Twenty  Craig discusses his problems with sleep post TBI.  His sleepless nights make for being tired all of the time.  It also caused problems in his marriage. Sleep Post TBI, Sleep Deprivation Let’s talk about sleep post TBI . When did you first identify that..
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Seizure Management of Post Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on January 18th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Seizure Management Post TBI: Craig Part Nineteen Craig talks about seizure management after his traumatic brain injury.  His seizures came in the form of shaking and tremors. Now, you went back to the hospital initially because of the tremors, the shaking. And the pain. Give me a sense of the..
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Brain Injury Vision Issues: Vision and Hearing Post TBI

Posted on January 17th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Vision Issues: Craig Part Eighteen  Craig discusses the brain injury vision issues along with some hearing problems he has experienced after his traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Vision Issues after TBI   You talked about some brain injury vission issues and hearing problems.  Tell me about that. Visual..
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Brain Injury Headaches Brought Severe Pain

Posted on January 16th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Brain Injury Headaches : Craig Part Seventeen  Craig discusses the pain involved with brain injury headaches.  Brain injury headaches so bad that they interrupt his sleeping and his vision.   One of the things that often gets lost in the shuffle when we talk, teach and counsel about brain injury, is..
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Speech Therapist Helps in Transition After TBI

Posted on January 15th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapist Helps in Transition: Craig Part Sixteen  Craig continues to talk about his speech therapist and how she helped him in transitioning out of therapy.  She hung in there with him even though funds ran out.   During the time you have therapy, you’re getting someone to basically be..
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Cognitive Therapy: Learning to Avoid the Overwhelming

Posted on January 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Therapy: Craig Part Fifteen  Craig talks about the kind of cognitive therapy he received and the different issues that this type of therapy dealt with and helped him with. Now, you said you had a separate person that was helping you with cognitive therapy. Correct. The Difference Between Cognitive..
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Speech Therapy -Metronome Therapy for TBI Recovery

Posted on January 11th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapy – Metronome Therapy: Craig Part Fourteen   After bringing TBI Voices to one Florida support group, one of the vacillators of the group, a speech pathologist, had asked me to tour her facility.  While there, she had showed me the apparatus for metronome therapy for speech therapy.  But..
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TBI Symptoms:Physical Problems Masked TBI

Posted on January 10th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Symptoms: Craig Part Thirteen  Craig tells about how he had so many physical injuries caused by the accident that the TBI symptoms were masked by all his physical problems. Now, with respect to your arm or shoulder problem, there are physical injuries that you might have had in the..
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Brain Injury Spasticity: Spasticity Problems Missed After TBI

Posted on January 8th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Spasticity: Craig Part Twelve  Craig talks about his problems with brain injury spasticity in his shoulders and his elbowsand  the therapy he received for this.   After you’ve had your neuropsychological evaluation and you get the results in April, they figure out you need some therapy? Correct. So..
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Frontal Lobe Issues: No Preparation Before Discharge

Posted on January 7th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Frontal Lobe Issues: Craig Part Eleven Craig discusses some of the problems that he is having with frontal lobe issues and how there wasn’t any preparation for this when he was discharged. Amnesia One of the Frontal Lobe Issues While we were off camera, you had some additional thoughts about..
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