This nightmarish case study will hopefully prove to be a teachable moment for youth athletes. The Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics this week outlined a case where a 17-year-old high school football player, who had sustained a concussion, went back to practices before he had fully recovered. He ended up having..
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TBI Marital Problems: Craig Part Nine To say that Craig’s TBI marital problems are a familiar story to me understates, the significance of that issue in my career. The first brain injured clients were not personal injury cases, but severe brain injury survivors who had been charged with domestic violence...
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There’s been quite a bit of speculation regarding the blood clot that was discovered near Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s brain, a condition she remains hospitalized for at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She is being treated with blood thinners to dissolve it. The first statement put out..
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The parents of former Cincinnati Reds player Ryan Freel, who committed suicide Dec. 22, have agreed to have his brain tissue tested for a degenerative disease that has been found in athletes who sustained repeated head injuries during their careers, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/sports/baseball/game-not-known-for-ferocity-claims-a-casualty-who-was.html?_r=0 It appears that..
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Going Home After TBI: Craig Part Eight In Part Eight, Craig tells us about his experience with going home after TBI. He has very little memory of this and what he does have is vague. Difficulties with Going Home After TBI Let’s get a sense of time. You are..
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Critics of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chided her, and downplayed the seriousness of her injuries, when she sustained a concussion earlier this month. They claimed she was just looking for an excuse to duck testifying before Congress about the attack on our diplomatic mission in Libya, where Ambassador Chris..
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder a Contributing Factor in Wife’s Death? A wounded Iraqi war veteran shot his wife, a Wisconsin police officer, five times in the head on Christmas Eve. Ultimately, a jury will have to decide what part post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will a mitigating factor in this tragic..
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The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a stroke-prevention medicine that will compete in that category against the blood-thinner warfarin, which is sometimes sold under the name Coumadin. The FDA issued a news release saying that it had given the go-ahead to the anti-clotting drug Eliquis, or apixaban, an oral..
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Here’s a real-life explanation about why NFL players hide their concussions. At a press briefing Friday, sports writers learned that New York Jets Greg McElroy, third-string quarterback to Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow, concealed the fact that he suffered a concussion last Sunday. McElroy was sacked 11 times in that..
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TBI Seizures: Craig Part Seven Craig tells us about the TBI seizures he suffered in which the medical staff misdiagnosed and called them “shakes” such as in Parkinson’s Disease. Have you ever gone back to look at your hospital records before your initial hospitalization and those re-admissions? Yeah, I..
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