Pre-Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Four One of the things that makes Zach’s story compelling is the portrait of such a young and dynamic man pre-severe brain injury – baseball star, homecoming queen, party animal. He had much to lose and came close to losing it all. While I enjoyed the..
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It’s nice to hear an upbeat story about someone making a recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provided one a few days ago. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/crane-operator-recovers-from-severe-accident-tm8mj1h-190630241.html My local paper did a profile of Martin de Ridder, a crane operator from Plymouth, Wis. On July 5 de..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Three Zach believes that his amnesia after severe brain injury ends and he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma. For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is..
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Retrograde Amnesia from TBI: Zach Part Two As there is almost always a period of retrograde amnesia from TBI that precedes a coma brain injury, one would by definition, expect someone who emerges from a coma, to be confused as to his or her whereabouts. But of course the confusion is..
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Former Arizona Congressman Gabrielle Giffords has made a lot of strides since she was shot in the head at point blank range roughly two years ago. At one point shortly after the attack on her, she could only spoke two words, “what” and “chicken.” Now Giffords is among those leading..
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Recovery From Brain Injury: Zach Part One This is the story of Zach Gauvin, author of the autobiographical book, the Miracle Kid. But recovery from brain injury is not about “miracles” – it is about medicine, it is about rehabilitation, it is about the “not quites.” When I say “not quites”..
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Two recent studies found that the concussions and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) that our troops have suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan are tied to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, USA Today reported this week. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/06/studies-mild-traumatic-brain-injury-linked-to-ptsd-suicide/1896651/ Excuse me, I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but did we really need..
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Just a few days ago I blogged about the reasons why skiers and snowboarders say they refuse to wear helmets. I said it was ridiculously foolish, because helmets cut down on injuries. But protective head gear doesn’t always save a life. https://tbilaw.com/blog/helmets-help-dont-hinder-skiers-and-snowboarders-research-finds/ Last Monday on an Aspen ski slope a..
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Hope for TBI Despair: Craig Part Thirty Four – Conclusion – – You are not Alone In conclusion of our interview with Craig he talks about the hope for TBI despair and that life is not now what it was but there is hope and he is not alone. Brain injury..
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TBI Medical Information or Lack There Of: Craig Part Thirty Three I discussed with Craig the resistance that the medical staff is to new TBI Medical Information and what we can do to make it mandatory for them to listen. The Importance of Medical Information Given by TBI Survivors Well,..
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