Blog

Singer Usher’s Stepson Declared Brain Dead After Jet Ski Mishap

Posted on July 9, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Singer Usher Raymond’s stepson has been declared brain dead after being injured in a Jet Ski accident in Atlanta, according to numerous press reports. http://www.mtv.ca/news/article.jhtml?id=44212 Kyle Glover, 11, suffered a traumatic brain injury Friday afternoon when he and a friend, both in an inner tube, were run over on Lake..
Read more

Brain Injury Disinhibition Makes Humor Potentially Offensive

Posted on · Posted in TBI Voices

 Brain Injury Disinhibition: Michael Part Thirty-Two In Part thirty-one Michael talks about his brain injury disinhibition and the difficulties he has to control it in everyday life. There are a number of frontal lobe issues that you have touched on in examples and I wanted to cover some of those in..
Read more

Brain-Damaged Girl Creates Hair Bows That Won’t Cause TBI

Posted on July 7, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s what would seem like an unlikely scenario: A little girl getting traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a hair tie. But it did happen, and the girl who was the victim is now designing and marketing “safe” hair ties, according to WWAY. http://www.wwaytv3.com/2012/07/07/little-girl-gets-creative-to-prevent-brain-damage-from-hair-bows Mya Bartlett, 7, in Carolina Beach, N.C.,..
Read more

Diabetes Drug May Help Health Brain Injuries, Alzheimer’s

Posted on · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s another study that may unlock a way to combat brain injury and ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Toronto has found that metformin, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, can spur stem cells to make new brain cells, according to the Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Drug+diabetes+help+improve+brain+injuries/6894488/story.html The research..
Read more

Chronic Unemployment after Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on July 6, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Chronic Unemployment after TBI- Michael Part Thirty-One In Part Thirty-One Michael talks about his chronic unemployment after his brain injury and how difficult it was for him to keep a job. At some point, two many jobs, for too short of time catches up with the disabled person, trying to..
Read more

Giffords’ Recovery From Aphasia Puts Spotlight On The Disorder

Posted on July 5, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery following her shooting in 2011 put a national spotlight on aphasia, a disorder that can accompany traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke or a brain tumor. In fact, Giffords this fall will receive the 2012 Annie Glenn Award for building awareness of communications disorders. She will..
Read more

Pitcher Darin Downs Comes Back After Brain Injury

Posted on · Posted in Brain Injury

Some traumatic brain injury (TBI) stories do have a happy ending. Such seems to be the case with pitcher Darin Downs. Call Downs the comeback kid. Last week he was called up from the minors in Toledo by the Detroit Tigers. After what happened to him in August 2009, it’s..
Read more

Getting Along with Co-Workers a Brain Injury Challenge

Posted on · Posted in TBI Voices

Getting Along with Co-Workers: Michael Part Thirty Perhaps the single biggest challenge for someone returning to work after a brain injury is the challenge of getting along with co-workers. Work is increasingly so not a place where an employee does his job in isolation.  As employment environments have become less..
Read more

Work Attendance Problems Weren’t Primary Problem

Posted on · Posted in TBI Voices

Work Attendance Problems: Michael Part Twenty Nine We continued to go down the checklist contained in the SSA website for mental abilities needed to sustain employment after a TBI. Work attendance problems is one on the list. You didn’t just injure your brain, you injured other of parts of your..
Read more

Pitocin Cited In $3.75 Million Settlement Of Iowa Baby Brain-Injury

Posted on July 4, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Pitocin, a drug given to pregnant women to help with their contractions, has been the culprit in several recent brain-injury cases involving babies at birth. The state of Iowa has just agreed to pay a $3.75 million settlement in one of these cases, according to Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/tagblogsfindlawcom2012-injured-idUS328128207020120703 And I recently..
Read more