My internet news today had an intersecting of two recurring themes in the brain injury world, with that of an unexpected death of a former NFL player. The first theme is the difficulties retired NFL players have with disability. The second theme the degree of depression found in post Iraq..
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From a former client Cindy, a consistent source of ideas and content for my blogs. Cindy has found a novel way to use the internet to deal with day to day obstacles, brain injury survivors encounter. Hi Everyone, I am a TBI survivor, going on almost 4 years now. Two..
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EDITORS NOTE: Continuing with this week’s theme of the emotional impact of brain injury, I have another post from a TBI advocate/survivor I want to share. Kimberly was referenced on our blogs a few weeks ago with respect to seizure dogs and she started following our blogs at that time...
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This week, we will focus on emotional issues after TBI. I will begin with a contribution from an old TBI from entitled Hope For Anger by Stephanie St. Claire: There is help and hope for out of control anger. I no longer put holes in doors trying to get through..
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Diagnosing brain injury in absence of a continuing loss of consciousness, is a matter of triangulating behavioral observations, scientific test results and objective measuring tools for the change in function correlated with brain injury. The most important piece of the diagnostic puzzle is the clinical judgment of a doctor experienced..
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Included in the CDC Facts for Physicians Toolkit, http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/physicians_tool_kit.htm but not as conspicuous as I believe it should be is the Acute Concussion Evaluation (“ACE”) Form. Click here to go directly to such form: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/ACE.pdf This form is a major step forward and I wish that it was used comprehensively..
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My last blog focuses the acute symptom of amnesia, the symptom that is now believed to be the most significant predictor of outcome after concussion. However, that is the modern way of looking at concussion, and unfortunately, not even all treatises or commentators on brain injury, are even willing to..
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There is no more important issue for the diagnosis and determination of prognosis after a brain injury than the length and severity of amnesia. Amnesia is defined as the loss of memory for events, both before and after the accident. Loss of memory for events before the accident is called..
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I hope you read past the title, because that was meant as a double entendre. The “Dangerous Deceit” is not that of the brain damaged person, but the deceit of the neuropsychologist who claims to be able to tell if someone is committing a fraud. At its core, to claim..
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Mr. Johnson, I will greatly appreciate your assistance in promoting advertisement of the Brain Awareness Weeks activities, that will take place next week at the Milwaukee Veterans Administration.We are organizing a few lectures on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). These lectures are scheduled in the context of outreach activities of the..
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