Lisa McHale is getting the word out to parents: Don’t let your kids play contact sports that can result in head injuries and brain damage. She won’t let her sons participate in Pop Warner football any more. The New York Daily News this week printed an interview that McHale did..
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Recovery from TBI: Lori Part Twenty Two In your recovery from TBI you describe yourself after the injury as having a wide range of frontal lobe deficits, and today, none seem to be apparent. Where in that continuum of 24 years do you think you started to really get ahead of..
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Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Twenty One In each interview, we try to cover a series of questions about typical frontal lobe challenges that face survivors after brain injury. A number of frontal lobe challenges had already come up in the interview, such as disinhibition and decision..
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A head cold apparently does more than give you a runny nose or a bad cough. It affects your brain, according to a recent study. “Muddled thinking” and “feeling of malaise” may be caused by changes in the brain itself, not “cold symptoms” themselves,” according to The Wall Street Journal...
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Whiplash along with Headache Pain after TBI: Lori Part Twenty In part twenty Lori and I talked about some of the other problems she has encountered since her accident such as the whiplash that has caused her other physical problems. Let’s talk about some basic things that I like to discuss..
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Returning to Work Post Brain Injury: Lori Part Nineteen Let’s go back to going returning to work post brain injury. You’d worked for the Board of Realtors for four years, and you’ve had increasing responsibilities. You said that you were hoping to get a degree. What was it like returning to work..
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A renowned children’s hospital in San Diego last month started a program to try to detect and prevent brain-damaging seizures in newborns, according to the North County Times. “Neuro NICU” is the new initiative at Rady Children’s Hospital, which is only one of 10 U.S. hospitals to have programs to..
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Some might say that logic dictates you don’t allow a company to put a drug on the market that doesn’t have an antidote, or has been linked to hundreds of deaths. But that is not what the Food and Drug Administration said about Pradaxa on Friday. Pradaxa, produced by the..
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Here’s more bad news: High blood pressure can result in brain injury. That was the finding of a recent study performed by researchers at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of California at Davis, according to Time magazine. The work looked at the connection between systolic blood pressure, which..
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Sexuality after Frontal Lobe Injury: Lori Part Eighteen In our previous blog, Lori’s discussed the difficult task of navigating sexuality after frontal lobe injury. Thank you for your honesty about what is one of the most complicated parts of recovering from a brain injury, and it’s especially complicated because sexuality..
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