Dave Duerson Suicide – Brain Injury Connection? Yesterday I posted a blog about ex-Chicago Bear Dave Duerson committing suicide last Thursday. It’s now believed that Duerson shot himself in the chest, rather than in the head, so his brain would be intact for testing for the degenerative disease that is plaguing retired NFL..
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The life of another former pro football player, who suspected he was suffering from long-term brain damage, has ended in tragedy. In this instance it was Dave Duerson, who committed suicide last Thursday by shooting himself in the chest. He was only 50. http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/report-duerson-died-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound.html In its obituary, The New York Times described Duerson..
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Champion skier Lindsey Vonn this weekend acted the way NFL players used to act: She returned to the “field,” so to speak, while still not fully recovered from a concussion. New York Times sports writer Alan Schwarz, the paper’s concussion expert, did an analysis, headlined “Ski Team’s Protocols Fail Vonn,”..
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Have dozens of people been wrongly convicted in shaken-baby syndrome cases? That’s the issue that The New York Times Magazine tackled Feb. 6, in much detail. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/magazine/06baby-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine A good portion of the story is about Trudy Ruenda, who was convicted in a shaken-baby case in Fairfax County, Va., involving baby Noah..
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Champion skier Lindsey Vonn bowed out of a World Cup slalom in Germany Friday due to a concussion, according to the Associated Press. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/sports/skiing/05sportsbriefs-vonn.html?scp=4&sq=Lindsey%20Vonn&st=cse Vonn decided to miss the race, which was won by Marlies Schild of Austria, despite the fact that she was cleared by doctors Friday. Vonn sustained a concussion during..
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The number of concussions in pro hockey this season has risen, although the National Hockey League is keeping mum on exactly what the number is so far. The New York Times published a story Sunday based on a news conference that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman gave during All-Star weekend. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/sports/hockey/30nhl.html?_r=1&ref=hockey He said..
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USA Hockey is considering making it a penalty for young players to make contact to another player’s head or neck, according to The New York Times. The amateur hockey organization is also weighing whether to ban body checking for boys younger than 13, the Times reported. The way rules stand now, “there is..
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Never Giving Up: Betty Part Twelve Dealing with the grief for what is lost and finding a way to see the hope. Never giving up is perhaps the biggest challenge for any brain injury survivor. Says Betty: If I couldn’t remember any of (who I was before) and just came..
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Maximum Recovery: Betty Part Eleven One of the consistent themes of TBI Voices will always be maximum recovery of brain injury does not get better in a month, a year, but requires a lifetime of care commitment to improving. Larry, one of Lethan’s characters in “Who Am I Again” was..
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Dating and Relationships: Betty Part Ten Betty’s relative success in regaining her adulthood is verified by the long term marriage she is a part of. But to go from college girl to rehab to the dating scene is a difficult transition, one fraught with peril. Alcohol, not knowing who to..
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