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Wisconsin Brain Injury Support Groups

Statewide Parent to Parent Network
Mothers United for Moral Support (MUMS)
877-336-5333 parents only, in Wisconsin

Green Bay: Julie Gordon (920) 336-5333
Oconomowoc: Bridget (262) 567-7807 or
Chris (262) 965-4238
Email: mums@netnet.net
Web Site: www.netnet.net/mums/

(A non-profit tax-exempt organization, whose mission is to help parents who have a child with any disorder, medical condition, mental or emotional disorder make connections with other parents whose children have the same or similar condition.)

Northwest Wisconsin

Brown Country
N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation
2900 Curry lane
Green Bay, WI 54311
2nd Tuesday every other month, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Contact: (920) 593-3570 Stephanie Umentum

Making New Connections
Varied Locations - Green Bay
4th Wednesday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Contact: (920) 866-9493 Karen Feld
Contact: (920) 433-8088 Carol Sweney

Manitowoc County
First Lutheran Church
North 8th Street
3rd Monday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Contact: (920) 755-2692 Lynn Paider

Northwest Wisconsin

Ashland
Memorial Medical Center
1615 Maple Lane - North Twin Island Room
Ashland, WI 54806
3rd Wednesday, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Contact: (715) 682-5676 Stewart Holman

Rice Lake
Lakeview Medical Center, Conference Room
1100 N. Main
Rice Lake, WI 54868
(Barron County)
1st Sunday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Contact: (715) 234-0079 Corinne & Jim Richie

Burnett County
Siren Covenant Church
7686 Lofty Pines Drive
2nd Sunday, 1:00 - 2:30pm
Contact: (715) 349-8985 Jerry or Karen

EauClaire
Young Persons TBI Group
Meetings have varied locations/days
Contact: (715) 838-3258 Mary Beth Clark or Tom Sather

Acquired Brain Injury Group
Eau Clair
Contact: (715) 838-3310 Tom Sather

Mild Brain Injury Group
Luther Hospital - Eau Claire
1221 Whipple Street
3rd Tuesday, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Contact: (715) 838-3258 Jerry Hoepner or Mary Beth Clark

Eau Claire Self Help
Sacred Heart Hospital-Eau Claire
900 West Clairemont (Bishop Hall)
3rd Thursday, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Contact: (715) 717-4446 Rhonda Olson or (715) 838-9352 Audrey Nelson

Central and North Central Wisconsin

Wausau
Aspirus Wausau Hospital
333 Pine Ridge Blvd.
2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm
Contact: 715-847-2826 Lea Ratajczyk

West Central Wisconsin (La Crosse)

LaCrosse
Big River Chapter - LaCrosse
Franciscan-Skemp Healthcare, Rose Conf. Rm-2nd Floor
Last Tuesday, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Contact: (608) 785-0940 x22857 Janet Papenfuss
Contact: 608-775-3050 Vicki Monk

Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Support GroupIndependent Living Resources - LaCrosse
Contact: (608) 787-1111 Mark Roesler-Begalke
Email: mark.rb@ilresources.org

Fox Valley and East Central Area

Fond du Lac/TLC
St. Agnes Hospital
2nd Tuesday, 7:00 pm
Contact: (920) 923-5462 Shirley Speie
Contact: (920) 929-7322 Niki Bartus

Sheboygan/Brainstorm
Sheboygan Retirement Home & Beach Healthcare Center
930 N. 6th Street
2nd Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Contact: (920) 917-0918 Kay Konik
"Spouses in Support" call Kay Konik

Miracle Point Head Injury Society
St. Nicholas Hospital / Francis Room
1st Monday, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Contact: 920-459-4642 Wendy Clark

Appleton
St. Elizabeth Hospital
1506 S.Oneida Street
4th Monday, 7:00 - 8:30pm (Sept. - April Meetings)
Contact: (920) 738-2749 Kathleen Clarke, PhD

Oshkosh
Ablility Resource Center
115 Washington Avenue, Ste. A
2nd Thursday (alternate months) 10:30am - 12:30pm
Contact: (920) 236-9230 Mr. Ashley Hesse

Southeast Wisconsin

Dodge County
Clearview Brain Injury Center
199 Home Road
Juneau, WI
3rd Monday, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Contact: (920) 386-3400 Laura Bertagnoli

Madison Area

Mild Brain Injury Resource Network
Madison Meriter Hospital
202 S. Park,
Community Health Education Center-Atrium
3rd Thursday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Contact: (608) 238-3571 Ellyn Kroupa

Mild Brain Injury Group for Spouses & Significant Others
502 N. Eau Claire Avenue
2nd Monday, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Contact: (608) 238-3571 Ellyn Kroupa
Email: elkroupa@tds.net

Janesville
Contact: (608) 752-4993 John Weber

Milwaukee and Racine Area

Embracing Hope
Zablocki Library
3501 W. Oklahoma Ave.
4th Thursday, 6:45-8:15 p.m.
Contact: (262) 679-9684 Lisa Albert

Milwaukee Support Group
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center of Milwaukee at Mt.Carmel
5700 W. Layton Avenue
4th Monday, 7:00 - 8:30p
Contact: (414) 325-4226 Holly Hanson

Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute Brain Injury Group
SHRI - 2nd Floor
2025 E. Newport Avenue
2nd Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:00pm
Contact: (414) 298-6798 Joy Tanguay
(1 survivor group & 1 caregiver group)

Milwaukee Area Self-Help (MASH)
West Milwaukee Community Center
1345 S. 47th Street
2nd Tuesday, 7:00pm
Contact: (414) 444-7270 Ruth Kleist

Racine County
Alpha Homes, Inc
6216 Washington Ave.
4th Thursday, 7:00pm
Contact: (262) 886-3328 Betty Carlsen

Information Current as of 07/10/08

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Understanding Subtle Brain Injury

Brain GraphicThe concussions that disable, are almost always more symptomatic at 24 hours, than at the 2-4 hour time frame when injured persons are evaluated in the emergency room. Brain injury symptoms escalate over the first 24 hours, because brain injury involves a cascade of events. It is critical that if you are still symptomatic the day after your injury, go back to the same Emergency Room, don’t wait for a doctors appointment. It is critical that the Emergency Room personnel see that the symptoms still persist or have gotten worse.

View Our Video Series on Concussions

 

 

Contact the Brain Injury Law Group: 1-800-992-9447

This site is brought to you by the advocates of the Brain Injury Law Group, a community of plaintiff's trial lawyers across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with traumatic brain injuries and a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of TBI.

 

Visit Our Other Brain Injury Law Group Sites

gordonjohnson.com

  • contains information about Brain Injury Attorney, Gordon S. Johnson, Jr., one of the nations leaders in the field of Brain Injury representation. Attorney Johnson devotes his practice to representing brain injured clients in personal injury accidents.

waiting.com — visit our blog

  • a page designed to assist those with issues regarding coma, especially in the acute phase when the doctors are saying "I just don't know."

tbilaw.com — visit our blog

  • has been at the cornerstone of the web advocacy of the Brain Injury Law Group since it went online in 1996. For a full treatment of the topic of brain injury, and recovering adequate compensation for those who have survived such injury, please visit our other pages.

subtlebraininjury.com — visit our blog

  • focuses on all aspects of concussion and non-coma injuries.

vestibulardisorder.com

  • addresses vertigo and dizziness resulting from trauma as well as information and resources for vestibular disorders.

cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com — visit our blog

  • our goal in this page is two fold: first to provide comprehensive information about Cerebral Palsy and on the resource pages linked from this page. Second, that through the information and education provided about Cerebral Palsy that those victims of medical malpractice will seek a remedy.

carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com — visit our blog

  • is focused on providing Carbon Monoxide poisoning information, resources and remedies to those who have suffered Carbon Monoxide damage, or CO poisoning. CO is the chemical shorthand for carbon monoxide.

heparin-law.com — visit our blog

  • Heparin, a blood thinner, has been linked to several deaths and hundreds of life-threatening adverse reactions because of an intentional contamination of the drug with a deadly toxin. This page provides detailed information about the Baxter Heparin disaster, which may have affected thousands of patients taking the intravenuous drug.

wis-law.com

  • is a comprehensive treatement of Wisconsin law, particularly in the fields of divorce, real estate, landlord tenant, personal injury, insurance and workers compensation in Wisconsin.

wis-injury.com — visit our blog

  • is a detailed treatment of Wisconsin personal injury law and Wisconsin workers compensation laws, including nuts and bolts information of the type of injuries typically found in automobile accidents. Our treatment of "Why you hurt" has been Wisconsin personal injury clients for more than a decade.

brainindex.com

  • The purpose of this page is to provide a central point for those in need of information about brain injury. These pages are about brain injury advocacy, and the remarkable breakthrough that the Web has made for that advocacy. brainindex.com is the Brain Injury Law Groups hub page, that directs those affected by brain injury to our web resouces.

neuro-imaging.net

  • Too often in brain injury cases, the neuroimaging such as MRI, CT, Xrays and FMRI scans are read as normal, when a careful tailoring of the protocols for such scans would have shown disabling pathology. neuro-imaging.net is a source for understanding the importance of state of the art MRI, FMRI and CT in the discovery the pathology of brain injury or brain damage.

car-accident-rain.com — visit our blog

  • Car accidents in the rain are often thought to be no-fault accidents, or blamed on the injured person. What is not understood is that many hydroplaning accident could have been avoided if the tires with the most tread had been put on the front, not the back. This page explains the science of tire location and who is responsible when someone gets badly hurt by such negligence.
 
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Call Attorney Gordon Johnson at
800-992-9447

The Brain Injury Law Group is involved with a network of plaintiff's trial attorneys across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with brain damage and neurological damage related disability. We share a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of cerebral palsy and other brain damage and neurological damage related disability. This network of lawyers are not part of a national law firm. We have separate law practices and are licensed to practice only in our home states.

The Brain Injury Law Group is here to listen and for that reason we maintain an 800 number and a staff willing to discuss your case and legal information where appropriate. There is no charge to call. We only represent people on a contingent fee basis and charge a fee only when we recover for the client. For more on Attorney Gordon Johnson, click here.

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