TBI Voices

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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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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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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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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 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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Relearning to Walk After TBI: Kelly Part Sixteen We went back to talking about the process Kelly went through relearning to walk after TBI and how she pushed the limits past what the therapists wanted her to do. Let me ask a couple of questions about that period of time when..
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E-Stim After TBI: Kelly Part Seventeen Our previous part about Kelly, ends with her battle for independence by leaving her cane behind her occupational therapist. This act then leads to a fortuitous encounter with her physical therapist. She also touches on the use of an E-Stim after TBI to help the..
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TBI Rehab Graduation: Kelly Part Eighteen In Part eighteen Kelly discusses more breakthroughs she had with her rehabilitation and the progress she made up until TBI Rehab Graduation. In our previous part, Kelly told us about her mobility savior, her physical therapist Christy, who got her hand to open through use..
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Restrictions After Brain Injury: Kelly Part Nineteen In part nineteen Kelly and talk about what going out in the real world means and the her restrictions after brain injury.   You’ve had your graduation.  Now you get to go out in the real world but with restrictions after brain injury: But..
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Driving After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Twenty In part twenty we talk about other factors of rejoining the real world such as driving after severe brain injury. You were telling us that one of the real problems being back in the real world, is not having your driver’s license and driving..
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