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Australian Jockey Darren Beadman Retires Because Of TBI

Posted on October 30, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

I am usually writing about brain-injury cases that involve sports such as football and hockey, or car accidents. This is the first time I recall writing about a jockey. Darren Beadman, a renowned 46-year-old Australian jockey, has told the media that his riding career is over because of head injuries..
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Mississippi Needs A Long-Term Care Facility For TBI Patients

Posted on October 29, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

You don’t have many options in Mississippi if you have a brain-injured loved one and you want to place them in a long-term care facility that specializes in TBI, according to The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. There are none in the state. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121029/NEWS/310290026/Care-struggle-families-traumatic-brain-injury-victims That’s the sad problem that Robert Sandifer..
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TBI Victim’s Suit Over Road Drainage Comes To Trial

Posted on October 26, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Last week in New Jersey a lawsuit went to trial, a case charging that a local county failed to maintain a road. A matter like that doesn’t sound like it would involve traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it does. The litigation, taking place in Superior Court in Bergen County, stems..
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Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury

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 Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury: Lori Part Seventeen   One of the areas that’s most affected by brain injury is the disconnection between a physical response and an intimate response.  There is also a very strong impulsivity issue that impacts sexuality.  We first learn the word inhibited in the context of..
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Sexual Desire after Severe Brain Injury and Misinterpretations

Posted on October 25, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Sexual Desire after Severe Brain Injury: Lori-Part Sixteen  We continued to talk about Lori’s sexual desire after severe brain injury and how easy it is or brain injury survivors to misinterpret their feelings. If  you don’t mind talking about this further, let me ask you about a couple issues.  There is..
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Reebok, Partner To Sell Wearable Head-Injury Detector Next Year

Posted on October 24, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

There may be a breakthrough in terms of measuring the impact of blows to the head during sports, an aid in terms of detecting possible concussions. On Wednesday Reebok-CCM Hockey and MC10 Inc. said that early next year a wearable sports impact indicator — which will be incorporated into a..
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Pop Warner Game Yields 5-Concussions, Suspensions For Coaches

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Pop Warner football has instituted a number of safety rules to protect its youthful players, children, from head injuries. OK, so then how did five boys sustain concussions during one game on Sept. 15 in Massachusetts without someone putting a halt to the madness? The New York Times answered that..
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Romance Difficulties after Traumatic Brain Injury

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Romance Difficulties after Traumatic Brain Injury: Lori Part Fifteen The relationship you have with your now husband is really a quite remarkable story in overcoming the romance difficulties after traumatic brain injury in that you had a mature relationship, that was probably evolving into a marriage in a year or two,..
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Concussion-Recovery App, Return2Play, Is Now Available

Posted on October 23, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

There really does seem to be an app for everything, and now the University of Michigan has brought us one for concussions, according a press release from the school Tuesday. http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/23/4931907/tracking-concussion-recovery-is.html#storylink=misearch This new mobile phone app, called Return2Play, is being touted as the first of its kind by U-M. It ..
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Severe Brain Injury Changes In Appearance

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 Severe Brain Injury Changes In Appearance: Lori Part Fourteen Lori and I talk about the severe brain injury changes in appearance which often happens to anyone with traumatic brain injury. Now you are still an attractive woman even with your severe brain injury changes in appearance.  Thank you. And I..
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