Return Home Post TBI: Lori Part Nine In part nine we talked to Lori about her return home post TBI and in her case it was returning to live with her parents instead of to the apartment she lived in before her severe brain injury. You were able to go..
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become a serious public health problem in New Hampshire, with incidents skyrocketing in the past 10 years, according to a report released last month by the state Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/media/pr/10152012injury.htm The report was done by the state health department’s Injury Surveillance..
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Neuropsychologist: Lori Part Eight One of the sad ironies of brain injury rehabilitation is that neuropsychologist, who are perhaps the best trained specialists in brain injury, rarely do therapy. Most neuropsychologist work is devoted to assessment of injury, not at rehabilitation. We don’t see a lot of survivors who got neuropsychological..
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Want some fascinating reading? Then look at the timeline on the website for the multi-district litigation that more than 3,000 ex-NFL players have filed against the league. http://www.nflconcussionmdl.org/timeline/ The timeline starts in 1928 , showing the results of medical studies that even back then link concussions and permanent brain damage..
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Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Seven We discuss Lori’s speech pathology post severe brain injury in Part Seven and how much of a role in her recovery this played. Tell me about the speech pathology post severe brain injury you got while you were an inpatient. I remember when..
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Scientists have chosen the first drugs that will be tested as part of a global clinical study to find ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The news was announced Wednesday in a press release from Washington University in St. Louis, the home base for the research. https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24400.aspx The trial will kick..
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The National Football League has one less concussion-lawsuit plaintiff to worry about. Alex Karras, a former lineman for the Detroit Lions who had a second career as a pretty good actor, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/sports/football/alex-karras-nfl-lineman-and-actor-dies-at-77.html?_r=0 According to a statement from his family..
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Hospital Stay after Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Six In Part Six we talked to Lori about her hospital stay after severe brain injury. Her memories of this time are very vague. Now let’s go back and talk about how what happened to you in terms of that first period after..
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Maturity Levels Before Brain Injury: Lori Part Five Lori and I discussed the difference in her maturity levels before brain injury and the maturity after brain injury. She was in the young adult years where maturity levels increase rapidly. Now you told us that you were an executive secretary at the..
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How about this as a model of good sportsmanship and compassion: You cheer your quarterback, who hasn’t been playing well, when he sustains a head injury during a game. Again, you can’t make this stuff up. On Sunday thousands of Kansas City Chief’s fans loudly cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel..
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