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Get the Stats on Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States

Each year, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) contribute to a substantial number of deaths and cases of permanent disability. Understanding the data around brain injuries is critical to understanding the impact of this invisible public health crisis.

Facts About Traumatic Brain Injury

What are the most common causes of traumatic brain injury?

Life after Brain Injury — Getting Back to Business

There is a nice thing about learning to live after a brain injury. Once you realize you can live life again, most everything else seems like a cakewalk.

Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths

Looking for numbers and hard facts? Here are U.S. statistics on TBI.

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Riding For Resilience To Help Others After TBI

Recovery from a TBI involves personal commitment and a tremendous amount of time, along with contributions from family and friends. The most important part in most of these cases begins with caregivers – whom I consider angels.

How to Be Successful When Making a Phone Call Having a Brain Injury

Simple things become a challenge after a brain injury. During the extremely challenging years of my recovery, here is what I did to help myself get through a phone call and accomplish what I needed to do.

Riding the TBI Pendulum

A couple of weeks with a respite from the worst of brain injury symptoms does not mean that I am abruptly recovering. It simply means that I’ve been able to string together a decent number of tolerable days.

Diagnostic Approach for Veterans Suffering Hearing Impairment, TBI from Mild Blast Trauma

Differences in post-injury auditory system pathophysiology after mild blast and non-blast acute acoustic trauma

Research findings suggest mild blast trauma suffered by military personnel affects portions of the auditory system that have not been extensively studied after injuries occur, and this impairment might be diagnosed using well-established testing methods.

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Life after Brain Injury — Learning to Roll with It

Life after Brain Injury â€“ Learning to Roll with It

I still have bad days. By looking at me, you’d never know that it was a “bad TBI day.” Today happens to be one of those days. Let me tell you a bit more about a bad TBI day and why a bad TBI day is different than it was a few years ago.

Cognitive Rehabilitation Denial Overturned: Montana Case Sets Precedent

This landmark case overturned the denial for cognitive rehabilitation services for TBI.

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Brain Injury & Depression: An Unexpected Outcome

My relationship with clinical depression goes back almost three decades. For reasons that even those intimately familiar with brain injury would be at a loss to explain, my depression virtually disappeared after my injury.

The Gift of a Head Injury

A brain injury can be a precious gift. The existential crisis that more than likely occurs when you have an injured brain is a catalyst that can change your life positively forever.

Traumatismo cerebral: Esperanza en la investigación

Traumatismo cerebral: Esperanza en la investigaciÃ³n

Este artículo ofrece una introducción a la TBI, acompañado de un glosario de los términos médicos asociados con la lesión cerebral.

Glosario de términos de lesiones cerebrales traumáticas

Glosario de tÃ©rminos de lesiones cerebrales traumÃ¡ticas

Definiciones de términos médicos relacionados con la rehabilitación y la lesión cerebral.

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Michael Wight and Elementary School After TBI

After a severe TBI at age 4, Michael Wight is now in fourth grade at Switlik Elementary, where they call him "the mayor." He attends class with other fourth graders and also gets help from a special education teacher, speech therapist, and physical therapist.

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Recovering from the Holidays after Brain Injury

There seems to be no shortage of helpful tips and tricks about how to get through the holiday season as a brain injury survivor. But what about recovering after the holidays?

Brain Injury: Why Does My Loved One Act Out?

Learn more about the emotional and behavioral changes after a brain injury.

Brain Injury: Common Tests and Procedures

Information about common tests and procedures for people who have sustained a TBI.

Impaired Cognition: Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about cognition and what happens when it is impaired after a brain injury.

Brain Injury: Complications and Medical Problems

Learn what can go wrong during hospitalization.

Conquering the Great Divide

I am one person who experienced a rather extreme trauma. I will always look at my life as “before and after.” I deem that to be a healthy mindset, one shared by most anyone who has lived through a life-altering event. But I’m tired of a mindset that separates me from the rest of humanity.

Living with Concussion the Natural Way

Rachel Derrington is not the same person she was before her brain swelled up and changed her attitude, priorities and sense of self. She is better. Rachel shares the four things that turned her from an survivor to a thriver.

31 Strategies for Living with Brain Injury

Caregiver blogger, Melissa Johnson, shares 31 tips and strategies she uses to help her husband cope with his brain injury in a more effective manner.

Survival Tips for the Holidays with a Brain Injury

With an injured brain, the holiday season can burden us with more fatigue, more stress and perhaps some sad emotions. We will be able to enjoy ourselves much more if we prepare ourselves for the holiday season. Here are some tips that work for me since my brain injury.

Life After Brain Injury: More Is Not Better!

After a brain injury more, of many things, is not better. It is not better to see more things around you; it is not better to be given more choices; it is not better to have more things to do...