Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Fourteen Because of her severe pediatric brain injury, Nancy got tutoring instead of returning to the 4th grade. But at the beginning of the next year, even with her pediatric brain injury, she went back to school. This interview was done in May of 2011. Is she..
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Recovery from Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Thirteen From the beginning of my brain injury advocacy, I have tried to focus my educational efforts as much on the caregivers as the survivors. Thus, in my interview, I also asked what life was like for Mom in terms of recovery from..
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Residual Deficits After Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twelve In part twelve I discussed with Nancy’s mom the residual deficits after severe brain injury Nancy was experiencing. Some of the ongoing issues that come with brain injury. For Nancy’s parents, as with almost all of the caregivers we have interviewed, there is..
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After Skull Fracture: Nancy Part Eleven I continued my interview with Nancy’s Mom, focusing on the day to day life after skull fracture in her first few months after returning home from UW Hospital. She doesn’t go back to school or fourth grade, but she has a tutor, what’s the daily..
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“There is no such thing as a minor concussion.” – American Academy of Neurology. The AAN defines concussion as a “alteration of mental status due to a biomechanical forces affecting the brain.” The AAN definition does not require a loss of consciousness. The AAN guidelines, break down concussion into three..
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Transitioning Home After Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Ten Returning to the timeline of our story, we now turn to Nancy’s transitioning home after severe brain injury from Madison. How long is she at UW Hospital? Thirty-six days. So what are the last ten days like in Madison? The last ten days..
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A veteran cyclist, who couldn’ t remember how and why he crashed while riding among the redwoods in California, found a way to put together the pieces. He used his GPS. John Markoff wrote a first-person story for The New York Times last week about the memory loss he suffered after..
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The last alternative of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Acute Event element, is the focal neurological deficit. Focal, (meaning restricted to one particular part of the body), neurological deficit, (meaning something wrong in the way in which the nervous system is responding), is the one element that the best..
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Assessing Retrograde Amnesia: Nancy Part Nine Throughout TBI Voices, we have been assessing retrograde amnesia and post traumatic amnesia (also called anterograde amnesia) in each survivor. That is considerably more difficult with Nancy, perhaps because she was a child, perhaps for other motivational reasons. Regardless, what she reports in assessing retrograde..
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For our treatment of amnesia after Traumatic Brain Injury, click here.
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