All posts tagged 'traumatic brain injury'

TBI Support: Survivor Based Traumatic Brain Injury Support

Posted on January 25th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Support: Craig Part Twenty Four  Craig goes on to say how important TBI support can be and how much trouble he had finding TBI support from other survivors. Not A Lot of TBI Support You went through this period of some down times and writings and music, then what?..
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Brain Injury Personality Change: TBI Survivor Can Be Better

Posted on January 24th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Personality Change: Craig Part Twenty Three  Craig embellishes on his brain injury personality change from who he was before his brain injury personality changes to who he is now.  What he did after. How his brain injury personality change drove him to different avenues such as starting and..
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Making Decisions, Amnesia and Inhibition as TBI Challenges

Posted on January 23rd, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Making Decisions: Craig Part Twenty Two  Craig discusses some of the challenges he incurred on his job all of which are typical of a survivor of traumatic brain injury.  Making decisions is one of them. Along with making decisions he also struggled with amnesia and inhibitions.  Amnesia Now, you said..
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Working Post TBI: Difficulty Dealing with Work Compromises

Posted on January 22nd, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Working Post TBI: Craig Part Twenty One Craig talk about what it was like working post TBI and dealing with work compromises.  He describes his understanding boss and how that made things easier.   I’d like to focus on two main areas where we’ve talked about – what happened at..
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Sleep Post TBI: Sleep After Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on January 21st, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Sleep Post TBI: Craig Part Twenty  Craig discusses his problems with sleep post TBI.  His sleepless nights make for being tired all of the time.  It also caused problems in his marriage. Sleep Post TBI, Sleep Deprivation Let’s talk about sleep post TBI . When did you first identify that..
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Seizure Management of Post Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on January 18th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Seizure Management Post TBI: Craig Part Nineteen Craig talks about seizure management after his traumatic brain injury.  His seizures came in the form of shaking and tremors. Now, you went back to the hospital initially because of the tremors, the shaking. And the pain. Give me a sense of the..
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Brain Injury Vision Issues: Vision and Hearing Post TBI

Posted on January 17th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Vision Issues: Craig Part Eighteen  Craig discusses the brain injury vision issues along with some hearing problems he has experienced after his traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Vision Issues after TBI   You talked about some brain injury vission issues and hearing problems.  Tell me about that. Visual..
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Brain-Injured Illinois Teen Dies Nearly A Year After Truck Accident

Posted on January 15th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

An Illinois youth who suffered traumatic brain injury after being struck by a truck nearly a year ago died this weekend, according to The Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/downers_grove/chi-hunter-himes-dies-20130114,0,1031312.story Hunter Himes, 15, of Downers Grove passed away Sunday. He was riding his bike on Feb. 26 last year when he was hit..
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Cognitive Therapy: Learning to Avoid the Overwhelming

Posted on January 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Therapy: Craig Part Fifteen  Craig talks about the kind of cognitive therapy he received and the different issues that this type of therapy dealt with and helped him with. Now, you said you had a separate person that was helping you with cognitive therapy. Correct. The Difference Between Cognitive..
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Speech Therapy -Metronome Therapy for TBI Recovery

Posted on January 11th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapy – Metronome Therapy: Craig Part Fourteen   After bringing TBI Voices to one Florida support group, one of the vacillators of the group, a speech pathologist, had asked me to tour her facility.  While there, she had showed me the apparatus for metronome therapy for speech therapy.  But..
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