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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New research has found that pets not only provide social and emotional support for those with disabilities, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), but also for the so-called average Joe. At least that was the finding of a study recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and..
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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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A Canadian researcher has found that damage to the brain can persist for decades after the original head trauma, according to a report delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston Sunday. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/cffi-esc021513.php “Even when you are symptom-free, your brain may still not..
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The Wall Street Journal did a story on a several new twists, new subsets, so to speak, of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They are being called “traumatic loss” and “moral injury.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578264033446648810.html The story explains this psychiatric issue by telling the tale of Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, whose entire..
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I was going to blog on this topic Tuesday, I had the data. But I got busy and didn’t have a chance to do it. The New York Times beat me to the punch Thursday with a Page One story on guns and suicide. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/us/to-lower-suicide-rates-new-focus-turns-to-guns.html?hp&_r=1& In all the debate over..
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