The audience member who singer Miguel kicked in the head during the Billboard Music Awards a month ago is still having cognitive problems, which her lawyer blames on the incident, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lawyer-Miguel-inviting-lawsuit-over-fan-s-injury-4602498.php The attorney representing Khyati Shah, an exchange student from New Zealand, told the..
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Brain Injury Headaches : Craig Part Seventeen Craig discusses the pain involved with brain injury headaches. Brain injury headaches so bad that they interrupt his sleeping and his vision. One of the things that often gets lost in the shuffle when we talk, teach and counsel about brain injury, is..
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Elizabeth Part Six – Memory and Cognitive Challenges Elizabeth discusses her challenges related to memory and understanding. Listening is much harder than talking since it requires keeping focused and trying to understand what is being said. Often, something has to be said multiple times for her to finally understand it...
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Elizabeth Part One Although one might reason that a more significant brain injury is harder to recover from than a less severe injury, this is not always the case. Elizabeth suffered from both a major brain injury involving coma and brain surgery and what is commonly referred to as a..
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Study Links Brain Injury to Parkinson’s Suffering a head injury and being exposed to pesticides makes for a bad combination that increases one’s chances of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. The University of California at Los Angeles recently published the research, “Traumatic brain injury, paraquat exposure, and..
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Teens just don’t want to listen, no matter how many times they’re warned. And so it was with Daniel Fernandez on Friday, unfortunately. Fernandez was killed Friday night after he stuck his head out of an emergency hatch on a double-decker bus in Fort Lee, N.J. The 16-year-old hit his..
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Diffuse axonal injury can occur without any direct impact on the head, as it requires only the condition of rapid acceleration/deceleration such as takes place in whiplash injuries due to acceleration/deceleration resulting in rapid flexion-extension movement of the neck. However, the likelihood of significant diffuse axonal injury increases when the..
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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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Emergency Room Misdiagnosis I have become increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of missed diagnosis of brain injuries. Seemingly several times a month, I come into contact with another client whose brain injury was not diagnosed in the emergency room. Despite significant symptoms of a brain injury, survivors are discharged with..
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