All posts tagged 'traumatic brain injury'

Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on November 7th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

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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Whiplash Because of Serious Motor Vehicle Wreck

Posted on November 6th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Whiplash along with Headache Pain after TBI: Lori Part Twenty   In part twenty Lori and I talked about some of the other problems she has encountered since her accident such as the whiplash that has caused her other physical problems. Let’s talk about some basic things that I like to discuss..
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Australian Jockey Darren Beadman Retires Because Of TBI

Posted on October 30th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

I am usually writing about brain-injury cases that involve sports such as football and hockey, or car accidents. This is the first time I recall writing about a jockey. Darren Beadman, a renowned 46-year-old Australian jockey, has told the media that his riding career is over because of head injuries..
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Mississippi Needs A Long-Term Care Facility For TBI Patients

Posted on October 29th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

You don’t have many options in Mississippi if you have a brain-injured loved one and you want to place them in a long-term care facility that specializes in TBI, according to The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. There are none in the state. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121029/NEWS/310290026/Care-struggle-families-traumatic-brain-injury-victims That’s the sad problem that Robert Sandifer..
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TBI Victim’s Suit Over Road Drainage Comes To Trial

Posted on October 26th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Last week in New Jersey a lawsuit went to trial, a case charging that a local county failed to maintain a road. A matter like that doesn’t sound like it would involve traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it does. The litigation, taking place in Superior Court in Bergen County, stems..
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Brain-Injured Children More Prone To Commit Crimes, Study Says

Posted on October 19th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s a new study that doesn’t surprise me: It found that young people who had sustained brain injuries are more likely to commit crimes and wind up in jail. Researchers in the United Kingdom at the University of Birmingham and the University of Exeter said that head trauma can make..
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Outpatient Physical Therapy After TBI: The Little Success

Posted on October 18th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Outpatient Physical Therapy After TBI: Lori Part Eleven Our discussion continues with the outpatient physical therapy after TBI and what little success Lori had with it. When asked how long she was kept immobile: So you were still not really ambulating, not walking well, that first months.  How long were you..
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Return Home Post TBI: Going Home to Parents

Posted on October 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Return Home Post TBI: Lori Part Nine  In part nine we talked to Lori about her return home post TBI and in her case it was returning to live with her parents instead of to the apartment she lived in before her severe brain injury.   You were able to go..
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Traumatic Brain Injury Cases Skyrocket In New Hampshire, Report Finds

Posted on October 15th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become a serious public health problem in New Hampshire, with incidents skyrocketing in the past 10 years, according to a report released last month by the state Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/media/pr/10152012injury.htm The report was done by the state health department’s Injury Surveillance..
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Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury

Posted on October 11th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Seven  We discuss Lori’s speech pathology post severe brain injury in Part Seven and how much of a role in her recovery this played. Tell me about the speech pathology post severe brain injury you got while you were an inpatient. I remember when..
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