Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be a extraordinarily difficult condition to rebound from. And now there’s a report that a lot more people may be suffering from TBI than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., are the one who have raised..
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Baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter, a pivotal player when the New York Mets won the 1986 World Series, succumbed to brain cancer Thursday. He was 57. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/sports/baseball/gary-carter-exuberant-power-hitting-catcher-dies-at-57.html?_r=1 I recently blogged about Carter, who was a star player on the Montreal Expos and the Mets, when it was revealed that his condition..
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Attentional Overload after Brain Injury: Kelly Part Fifteen Kelly talks about the troubles she had with attentional overload after brain injury and the issues that it can cause with concentration. She also touches on some other brain injury issues she encounters. As an advertising salesperson, you’re in a profession that requires..
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Flat Mood After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Fourteen In part Thirteen, Kelly attributed her flat mood after severe brain injury issues to age related hormonal changes. Yet, her mood issues such as her flat mood after TBI is shared much with what many survivors of brain injury experience. Brain injury..
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Returning Home After TBI Complicated by Hormonal Problems: Kelly Part Thirteen Kelly and I talked about her returning home after TBI. She tells about how her mother became over protective because of the TBI. Kelly was a very independent person before the accident and it took some adjustment of her returning..
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Speech Therapy after TBI: Kelly Part Twelve In addition to physical therapy, Kelly also had speech therapy after TBI and occupational therapy as part of her rehabilitation from severe brain injury. Yet, the pace of that therapy was a bit off kilter with Kelly’s perception of what she needed. Tell me..
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Post TBI Disability: Hand Becomes the Symbol: Kelly Part Eleven Kelly talks about her post TBI disability, her hand. She explains that she feels like her hand is useless and frustrates her to the point of wanting to cut it off some times. Talk to me about looking at your hand..
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With all the press about the dangers of concussions suffered during sports, at least one company is offering a product that could help child and youhful athletes. A company called Axon Sports, for $7.50, says it can perform a cognitive baseline test that can be used to essentially gauge whether someone has sustained a..
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Relearning to Walk after Severe TBI: Kelly Part Ten Kelly talks about relearning to walk after severe TBI and how it wasn’t easy. It took a long time before he was able to walk on his own. Now you were mentioning in the transfer there were issues about whether you..
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Nutrition After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Nine In part nine we will talk about nutrition after severe brain injury and while she had the trach she was fed by a PEG tube. We were beginning to talk about physical limitations, and you had some physical limitations with respect to your..
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