Neuropsychologist: Lori Part Eight One of the sad ironies of brain injury rehabilitation is that neuropsychologist, who are perhaps the best trained specialists in brain injury, rarely do therapy. Most neuropsychologist work is devoted to assessment of injury, not at rehabilitation. We don’t see a lot of survivors who got neuropsychological..
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Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Seven We discuss Lori’s speech pathology post severe brain injury in Part Seven and how much of a role in her recovery this played. Tell me about the speech pathology post severe brain injury you got while you were an inpatient. I remember when..
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Hospital Stay after Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Six In Part Six we talked to Lori about her hospital stay after severe brain injury. Her memories of this time are very vague. Now let’s go back and talk about how what happened to you in terms of that first period after..
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Maturity Levels Before Brain Injury: Lori Part Five Lori and I discussed the difference in her maturity levels before brain injury and the maturity after brain injury. She was in the young adult years where maturity levels increase rapidly. Now you told us that you were an executive secretary at the..
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Prior to Brain Injury: Lori Part Four In this part we talk to Lori about who she was prior to brain injury. What was her life like prior to the accident and prior to brain injury. Let’s talk about who you were before you got hurt prior to brain..
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Brain Pathology : Lori Part Three In Part Three we will discuss with Lori her brain pathology and the nature of her injuries. She states that the left parietal brain pathology is the part that was injured. We also talk about the her parents grief and how to this day it..
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Severity of TBI: Lori Part Two There are primarily two methods to classify the severity of TBI, the length of coma (or loss of consciousness) and the length of amnesia. In assessing amnesia, it is not so much the loss of memory for events before the injury that is significant (retrograde..
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Brain Injury Accident: Lori Part One A normal morning, vivid in Lori Faitel’s mind because of the normality of it, fractured in her memory because of the unexpected event that changed her life. It was April 25th, 1986, a moment in time that dictated the direction of Lori’s future. A motor..
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Doug Concludes with Part Eight – Community Integration: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/doug-story-concludes-community-integration/ TBI survivors are often thrown back to earlier developmental stages to re-learn important tasks that their injured brain forgot how to do. This is often seen in speech and physical therapy where a TBI survivor must, like a young child, learn..
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Doug Part Seven – Vocational Rehabilitation After Brain Injury http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/vocational-reintegration-after-severe-brain-injury/ Continuous mental work helps to re-wire damaged pathways in the brain, which ultimately results in better long-term outcomes for people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. Vocational rehabilitation and community re-integration ideally could work in tandem to help achieve..
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