Traumatic Brain Injury

A lady (let’s call her Carla) is driving down a street — it’s 10:00 pm on a Friday night. She thinks about her kids in bed, makes a mental note to check in on them before she goes to bed. She wonders what her boss has in store for her at the 8:00 a.m. meeting that was scheduled a week ago. Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light; a deafening crash, and her world goes black. Sound like a scene from a movie? I wish it were. According to the CDC, 1.4 million people in the USA sustain a... Read Full Story

Brain Injury can change your life Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is caused by traumatic and non-traumatic events that injure the brain. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the result of a blow to the head or spinning forces on the brain. Common causes include motor vehicle crashes, falls or assaults. Non-traumatic brain injury is caused by illness such as meningitis and encephalitis; anoxic events - whereby oxygen flow to the brain is disrupted as in strokes, aneurysms or during cardiac arrest... Read Full Story

No one wishes to have brain damage, of course – but you can never really say. There are just some instances when accidents and unfortunate circumstances lead to bodily injury causing painful, permanent and incapacitating damage. TBI or traumatic brain injury is a very broad term that encompasses all traumatic injuries to the brain. Traumatic injury, in this sense simply means serious injury; but this condition is anything but simple. TBI is also known as head injury or intracranial injury... Read Full Story

Mother at odds with Army over death of sgt. Soldier’s mom believes son was victim of war; Army says death is undetermined By Robert Imrie - The Associated PressPosted : Monday Mar 24, 2008 7:33:13 EDT http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/ap_mcdonald_death_032308/ WAUSAU, Wis. — Joan McDonald believes her son was a casualty of the war in Iraq, but the Army says that while he did suffer a severe head wound in a bomb blast, the cause of his death is undetermined, keeping him off the... Read Full Story

CHICO — Survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families must be realistic, said Harriet Zeiner, Ph.D. "You will never be the way you were before. But you can be better with training," she said. Chico Enterprise-RecordArticle Launched: 03/31/2008 12:12:53 AM PDT Staff writer Mary Nugent http://www.chicoer.com/lifestyle/ci_8754851 Zeiner visited Chico Wednesday for an afternoon workshop on traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder as current issues for veterans... Read Full Story