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Mississippi Needs A Long-Term Care Facility For TBI Patients

Posted on October 29th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

You don’t have many options in Mississippi if you have a brain-injured loved one and you want to place them in a long-term care facility that specializes in TBI, according to The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. There are none in the state. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121029/NEWS/310290026/Care-struggle-families-traumatic-brain-injury-victims That’s the sad problem that Robert Sandifer..
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TBI Victim’s Suit Over Road Drainage Comes To Trial

Posted on October 26th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Last week in New Jersey a lawsuit went to trial, a case charging that a local county failed to maintain a road. A matter like that doesn’t sound like it would involve traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it does. The litigation, taking place in Superior Court in Bergen County, stems..
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Reebok, Partner To Sell Wearable Head-Injury Detector Next Year

Posted on October 24th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

There may be a breakthrough in terms of measuring the impact of blows to the head during sports, an aid in terms of detecting possible concussions. On Wednesday Reebok-CCM Hockey and MC10 Inc. said that early next year a wearable sports impact indicator — which will be incorporated into a..
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Pop Warner Game Yields 5-Concussions, Suspensions For Coaches

Posted on October 24th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Pop Warner football has instituted a number of safety rules to protect its youthful players, children, from head injuries. OK, so then how did five boys sustain concussions during one game on Sept. 15 in Massachusetts without someone putting a halt to the madness? The New York Times answered that..
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Concussion-Recovery App, Return2Play, Is Now Available

Posted on October 23rd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

There really does seem to be an app for everything, and now the University of Michigan has brought us one for concussions, according a press release from the school Tuesday. http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/23/4931907/tracking-concussion-recovery-is.html#storylink=misearch This new mobile phone app, called Return2Play, is being touted as the first of its kind by U-M. It ..
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The Brain-Injured And Their Families Are Sought For Survey

Posted on October 22nd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here is an opportunity for those who have sustained brain injury to provide feedback about their experiences and needs. The Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine is doing  research on brain-injury information distribution and the educational needs of survivors of brain injury and..
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Wrestler Marvin ‘Brain Damage’ Lambert Dead Of Apparent Suicide

Posted on October 20th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here is something to ponder. Marvin “Brain Damage” Lambert, an independent wrestler, died Thursday, in an apparent cf suicide, according to F4WOnline. F4WOnline I couldn’t find out whether Lambert got him monicker because he really had brain damage, or if it was one of those catchy stage names that these..
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How Fungal Meningitis Kills Your Brain, And You

Posted on October 19th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Last time I looked, and this number has been tragically growing, 19 people had died from fungal meningitis after receiving shots of a contaminated steroid manufactured by New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. The steroid was tainted by a fungus. If you want a detailed description and explanation of what..
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Brain-Injured Children More Prone To Commit Crimes, Study Says

Posted on October 19th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s a new study that doesn’t surprise me: It found that young people who had sustained brain injuries are more likely to commit crimes and wind up in jail. Researchers in the United Kingdom at the University of Birmingham and the University of Exeter said that head trauma can make..
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Portal Offers Guide To Research On Brain Injuries And Sports

Posted on October 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A website called Journalistsresource.org has put together a roundup of some of the key scientific research on concussions and sports, ranging  from football to soccer to youth players. Although this curated portal is meant to point reporters to good sources of data on traumatic brain injuries, it would also be..
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