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Traumatic Brain Injury - News Articles
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The inmate punched and kicked the unarmed Yantes in the head, causing a serious frontal-lobe brain injury that has lingering effects nearly two months later. The father of three isn't sure when, or if, he can go back to work. He and his wife, Julie, moved in with a family member last week because his workers'-comp income isn't enough to make ends meet. Similarly, ...
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder are invisible wounds. TBI has been called the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While anyone suffering from a head trauma can experience TBI, returning US soldiers are in ...
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Brower suffered two skull fractures, fractures to his upper and lower jaw, internal bleeding in his brain, a bad concussion and lost hearing in his left ear. He spent five days in the hospital, including two in the intensive care unit. "My mom said I kept asking where I was and what happened," Brower said. "It was scary at first, ...
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Besides adults and children with Traumatic Brain Injury, they also treat patients with brain tumors, infections, and brain hemorrhages. The NRH plans to open four Concussion Clinics to help those with mild traumatic brain injuries receive proper treatment and funding from this luncheon will make the clinics possible.
“I am pleased to be raising funds ...
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In 2006, ABC anchorman Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury when an improvised explosive device detonated near him while on assignment in Iraq. By the time Lee Woodruff arrived at her husband's hospital bed, doctors already had removed a 16-centimeter portion of his skull to allow his brain to swell. Though effective, the procedure left his head sunken ...
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“It protects your brain structure over 10 years in people who have Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment in the areas which are key for memory and learning centers in the brain,” he says. Doing other things that will exercise your brain, such as crossword puzzles or playing Scrabble, can also help slow the decline in cognition that comes with aging, ...
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Thus Erica is able to conquer her inherited cognitive deficits via the culturally inflected learning toolkit she acquires at — you guessed it — an urban charter school. And thus Brooks is able to confidently propel his protagonists forward as the kind of accommodating social background that he knows best. They are model achievers, always alert to the next cognitive ...
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Fuller's doctor has told him to take it easy at least until May 31, and said to rest and heal from the brain injury. Fuller said his prognosis is good and he intends to return to the dais. “I just had to put it all on hold just to avoid creating a worsened problem,†he said. “It’s not easy for me not to do anything. I’m a pretty active guy. I’ve ...
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The timing couldn't have been better with Brain Injury Awareness month approaching. Ms. Albanese told him “we have the perfect project for you.” Albanese suggested to Brandon that he help raise awareness in the community about brain injury prevention and helmet safety by holding a collection to provide helmets to children served by the Community Food Bank of ...
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It doesn't matter your age or status, they say it's very, very difficult to deal with the recovery process of a brain injury. Patients, like 23-year-old Amanda Sparks, who are recovering from a traumatic brain injury, spend up to six hours a day working hard with therapists. Patients undergo three types of therapy every day, including: physical, speech, and occupational therapy. They ...
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A Seattle nonprofit with a long history of helping people with disabilities is seeking state help so it can build what would be the state's first traumatic brain injury center in south Shoreline. By Oscar Halpert | Email the author | 6:48am Seattle ...
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If you're one of those who develops mild cognitive impairment in your mid-60s, how valuable will you be in the workplace? And if you're laid off when you're older, it can be difficult to find work that will last until you can draw Social Security benefits. Lavretsky said some people in their 70s are resilient and don't want to retire, but a large percentage ...
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A 48-year-old man was being held in jail on $82700 bond after police said he imprisoned and beat his elderly wife so badly she had a brain injury. Mr. Carl Anthony Scott's was originally arrested on a misdemeanor charge on March 29, but officers added more charges when they learned the extent of his 70-year-old wife's injuries, Cobb County police Sgt. Dana Pierce said. ...
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Growing awareness of the toll that concussions and traumatic brain injuries reap on battlefields and playing fields is drawing new ideas from researchers across many disciplines. One of the greatest challenges for those treating soldiers, athletes or other trauma victims is simply determining whether a ...
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Gabrielle Giffords is just one Arizonan showing strength in overcoming a traumatic brain injury, but there are others who are working to make full recoveries from their brain injuries. “I remember looking into the backseat and seeing my trunk,” Raymond ...
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“There is a window of time actually, where the athlete doesn't report symptoms anymore but still may have some cognitive deficit that they're not seeing or feeling,” she said. FOX 9 News reporter Jody Ambroz took one of the screening tests herself. Watch the video to learn more. The tests are usually recommended for teen athletes, but the doctors at Fairview ...
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"These findings are important in light of continued widespread use of CPF in agricultural settings and possible longer-term educational implications of early cognitive deficits," the investigators write. "Since agricultural use of CPF is still ...
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For Linda Brashears, raising awareness of brain injuries for returning veterans was just a new mission. Brashears returned from a year in Iraq with an undiagnosed brain injury. After having it diagnosed and leaving the Army, she found purpose in working with the Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky, and meeting with other returning veterans about brain trauma. Brashears and ...
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The military also set up a clinic in Afghanistan last year specifically to treat traumatic brain injury and mandated rest periods for soldiers exposed to blasts. The new initiatives have "increased dramatically" the need for neurologists on the battlefield, according to the memo , which was issued in March and obtained recently by ProPublica and NPR. "The ...
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Thanks to increased awareness of concussions in sports, more people are learning about traumatic brain injury and the suspected connection to other serious conditions. The focus, for the most part, has been on professional athletes who endure repeated hits while playing a brutal sport. The issue took center stage in February when Dave Duerson, the former University ...
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