A side note to the story below: Most people would never connect these two words: stroke and trauma. But stroke is a problem that affects at least 10% of our clients, yet such strokes are never diagnosed acutely. Strokes in automobile wrecks happen predominantly in two ways: First, the twisting..
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Date: 9/23/2008 6:23 PM By PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ The government is more than quadrupling monthly payments to some veterans suffering brain injuries, as the number of such war wounds mounts from the roadside bombings of Iraq and Afghanistan. The new compensation is based on the..
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Date: 8/8/2008 12:00 AM BC-The Long Haul VI,2nd Ld-Writethru/2166 PART VI: An ambush produces a heroBy SHARON COHEN EDITOR’S NOTE — An insurgent ambush yields a hero, and a wounded soldier recovers back home. Sixth of a seven-part series on the longest deployment of the Iraq war.By SHARON COHENAP National..
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Date: 8/6/2008 12:00 AM By SHARON COHEN EDITOR’S NOTE — Roadside bomb blasts change everything for two soldiers and their families back home. Fourth of a seven-part series on the longest deployment of the Iraq war.By SHARON COHENAP National Writer In that dreadful December, every day brought bloodshed, every week..
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Date: 8/5/2008 12:00 AM By SHARON COHEN EDITOR’S NOTE — Troops and families at home count the many milestones missed and made. Third of a seven-part series on the longest deployment of the Iraq war.By SHARON COHENAP National Writer The Ferris wheel at the Minnesota State Fair offered a bird’s-eye..
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Date: 8/4/2008 12:01 AM By SHARON COHEN EDITOR’S NOTE — National Guard troops reach their stations in Iraq while family members back home begin a hard adjustment. Second of a seven-part series on the longest deployment of the war.By SHARON COHENAP National Writer The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so..
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For weeks on this blog, I wrote about the Iraq War and brain injury, with my last blog on that topic being http://tbilaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/brain-injury-is-not-new-to-iraq.html My first blog on that topic began in June with http://tbilaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/suicide-and-terror-continues-for-our.html Below is the first in a seven part series from AP, by Sharon Cohen on the..
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This post has been expanded and can now be found here: http://veteransbraininjury.com/nightmare-of-a-combat-brain-injury/ “Correct if I am wrong, but I think Traumatic Brain Injury is a new injury unique to the war in Iraq. Suffered by people who have concussive injuries from being near the explosions, not from being hit directly, but..
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