Pre-brain Injury Teen: Zach Part Five In part five we talked about what kind of life Zach had as a pre-brain injury teenager and the kind of activities he was involved with. We talked about sports in high school. You were a good student in your pre-brain injury teen years?..
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Pre-Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Four One of the things that makes Zach’s story compelling is the portrait of such a young and dynamic man pre-severe brain injury – baseball star, homecoming queen, party animal. He had much to lose and came close to losing it all. While I enjoyed the..
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It’s nice to hear an upbeat story about someone making a recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provided one a few days ago. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/crane-operator-recovers-from-severe-accident-tm8mj1h-190630241.html My local paper did a profile of Martin de Ridder, a crane operator from Plymouth, Wis. On July 5 de..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Three Zach believes that his amnesia after severe brain injury ends and he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma. For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is..
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New research has found that hearing loss in the elderly may speed up the onset of dementia and cognitive impairment. The study, done by the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, was recently published online by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, according to a press release from Johns Hopkins...
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Retrograde Amnesia from TBI: Zach Part Two As there is almost always a period of retrograde amnesia from TBI that precedes a coma brain injury, one would by definition, expect someone who emerges from a coma, to be confused as to his or her whereabouts. But of course the confusion is..
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Former Arizona Congressman Gabrielle Giffords has made a lot of strides since she was shot in the head at point blank range roughly two years ago. At one point shortly after the attack on her, she could only spoke two words, “what” and “chicken.” Now Giffords is among those leading..
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Recovery From Brain Injury: Zach Part One This is the story of Zach Gauvin, author of the autobiographical book, the Miracle Kid. But recovery from brain injury is not about “miracles” – it is about medicine, it is about rehabilitation, it is about the “not quites.” When I say “not quites”..
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In my callow youth, I wanted to be a sports writer. That’s not how my life turned out. I found another passion, helping people who have sustained traumatic brain injury, fighting their battles in court. But I still love sports and good sports writing. I recently came across one of..
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Two recent studies found that the concussions and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) that our troops have suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan are tied to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, USA Today reported this week. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/06/studies-mild-traumatic-brain-injury-linked-to-ptsd-suicide/1896651/ Excuse me, I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but did we really need..
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