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Brain Injury Vision Issues: Vision and Hearing Post TBI

Posted on January 17, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Vision Issues: Craig Part Eighteen  Craig discusses the brain injury vision issues along with some hearing problems he has experienced after his traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Vision Issues after TBI   You talked about some brain injury vission issues and hearing problems.  Tell me about that. Visual..
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Concussion Stats We Hope Will ‘Jar’ People Into Promoting Safety

Posted on January 16, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

An insurer that is pitching life insurance for children has created a very powerful infographic that really drives home the dangers of concussions and football. The graphic was commissioned by Globe Life and Accident Insurance Co., which is based in Oklahoma City. Using a colorful format that employs a football..
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Brain Injury Headaches Brought Severe Pain

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 Brain Injury Headaches : Craig Part Seventeen  Craig discusses the pain involved with brain injury headaches.  Brain injury headaches so bad that they interrupt his sleeping and his vision.   One of the things that often gets lost in the shuffle when we talk, teach and counsel about brain injury, is..
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Military Suicides Hit Record High, And TBI Likely Plays A Role

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Our troops are still not getting the help they need when they come home from combat overseas. And here is the evidence. Despite all the counseling and special programs created to help soldiers, suicides in the U.S. military last year hit an all-time high, taking more soldiers’ lives than combat,..
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Speech Therapist Helps in Transition After TBI

Posted on January 15, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapist Helps in Transition: Craig Part Sixteen  Craig continues to talk about his speech therapist and how she helped him in transitioning out of therapy.  She hung in there with him even though funds ran out.   During the time you have therapy, you’re getting someone to basically be..
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Brain-Injured Illinois Teen Dies Nearly A Year After Truck Accident

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An Illinois youth who suffered traumatic brain injury after being struck by a truck nearly a year ago died this weekend, according to The Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/downers_grove/chi-hunter-himes-dies-20130114,0,1031312.story Hunter Himes, 15, of Downers Grove passed away Sunday. He was riding his bike on Feb. 26 last year when he was hit..
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Cognitive Therapy: Learning to Avoid the Overwhelming

Posted on January 14, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Therapy: Craig Part Fifteen  Craig talks about the kind of cognitive therapy he received and the different issues that this type of therapy dealt with and helped him with. Now, you said you had a separate person that was helping you with cognitive therapy. Correct. The Difference Between Cognitive..
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A Tale Of Two Injured Athletes: Strasburg And Griffin

Posted on January 11, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Sometimes it just seems that the ridiculous win-at-all-costs, player-health-be-damned sports mentality that permeates the National Football League will never end. It’s a part of the jockdom of the gridiron. Thomas Boswell, a sports writer with The Washington Post, this week did a column on two different approaches to sports-team management..
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Speech Therapy -Metronome Therapy for TBI Recovery

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Speech Therapy – Metronome Therapy: Craig Part Fourteen   After bringing TBI Voices to one Florida support group, one of the vacillators of the group, a speech pathologist, had asked me to tour her facility.  While there, she had showed me the apparatus for metronome therapy for speech therapy.  But..
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Institute Of Medicine Leads Study of Concussions And Youth Athletes

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The Institute of Medicine, a research group supported by federal funding, has just kicked off a 15-month probe of concussions and youth athletes. The Institute’s website announced that a new ad hoc committee “will conduct a study and prepare a report on sports-related concussions in youth, from elementary school through..
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