Elizabeth Concludes with – The Puzzle of Mild TBI http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/puzzle-of-disability-from-the-milder-tbi/ Elizabeth’s story exemplifies the all too common occurrence of a second less severe injury (i.e., concussion) producing a greater disability than an earlier more severe brain injury (i.e., coma and brain surgery). This segment explores possible explanations. Elizabeth’s..
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Elizabeth Part 8 – Frontal Deficits After Brain Injury Since much of our frontal lobe development happens in teenage/early adult years, adult behaviors are often impacted when frontal lobe injury occurs. Although Elizabeth describes her cognitive knowledge to be like an eighth grader, this also pertains to her ability to..
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Elizabeth Part 7 – Challenges of Running a Home After TBI Elizabeth’s discusses the challenges her brain injury poses to her responsibilities at home. These include taking longer to do certain tasks, making accommodations for doing the laundry to avoid going up and down stairs, difficulty with organization and finding..
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Elizabeth Part Five – Balance Difficulties After TBI Elizabeth is a prime example of the cumulative effects of additional head trauma, even injuries classified as “mild TBIs”. Even conservative medical professionals in the field of neuropsychiatry acknowledge a prolonged recovery and lasting deficits which can result from a second or..
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Elizabeth Part Four – Successful Return to Work After Severe Brain Injury Although Elizabeth was not able to perform her previous duties at the end of her therapy, her employer sent her back to work doing another job. This is a common practice in workman’s comp cases since the person..
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Elizabeth Part Three – Treatment for Severe Brain Injury In this segment, Elizabeth describes her life prior to her severe brain injury and then talks about the treatment and rehab she received after her injury. Elizabeth was 36 and describes herself as a hard-working, fun-loving person. She worked at..
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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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Senility After TBI: Lori Part Twenty Three It has long been suspected that brain injury accelerates age related cognitive decline including senility after TBI. The research is beginning to show that those who’ve had significant brain injuries when they were younger, are going to show signs of senility after TBI..
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Relearn How To Learn: Lori Part Twenty Three One of the challenges Lori conquered was going back to school along with going back to work. She states that she had to relearn how to learn. Talk to me about the process of going to college, three, four, five years after..
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Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Twenty One In each interview, we try to cover a series of questions about typical frontal lobe challenges that face survivors after brain injury. A number of frontal lobe challenges had already come up in the interview, such as disinhibition and decision..
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