All posts tagged 'mild brain injury'

Elizabeth-Second Injury Contrast to Severe TBI

Posted on November 28th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part Two Elizabeth suffered a second, seemingly mild, brain injury three years after her first injury. After clocking out from her job one day in March of 2005, conditions were slippery when walking to her truck; Elizabeth fell and once again hit her head. Unlike her first injury, she..
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Elizabeth-Severe and Mild TBI

Posted on November 27th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

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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Mild Brain Injury – Coping Skills

Posted on December 16th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

by the legal times staffthelegaltimes.net Many years ago I suffered a “mild brain injury” which resulted in a seizure disorder. It’s one of those hidden disabilities which are so popular in the news currently. I can function in a crowd, for short periods of time. Overload is an ongoing problem..
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Patterns of Footprints of Brain Injury

Posted on April 18th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Diagnosing brain injury in absence of a continuing loss of consciousness, is a matter of triangulating behavioral observations, scientific test results and objective measuring tools for the change in function correlated with brain injury. The most important piece of the diagnostic puzzle is the clinical judgment of a doctor experienced..
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What is a Mild Brain Injury?

Posted on March 19th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Head injuries (or otherwise called brain injuries) have been traditionally classified into three categories, mild, moderate and severe. Mild head injuries are typically brain injuries that do not involve loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes. Moderate involve significant loss of consciousness, but not do not involve extended coma...
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