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The Evolution of Life after Brain Injury

I can see progress. I am not who I was before my accident. I am also not who I was in early recovery. In a few years, I will not be who I am today, as the healing will continue.

'What Did You Say?' Hearing Loss and Brain Injuries

â€˜What Did You Say?â€™ Hearing Loss and Brain Injuries

It’s no surprise that some symptoms of brain injury include headaches and memory problems. But hearing loss may also accompany a TBI, either because the injury damages the ear or because there is damage to the part of the brain that processes sound.

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How Common Is PTSD?

How many people have PTSD and who is most likely to develop PTSD?

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Kicking My Self-Esteem to the Curb

When I write, I write about what is happening in the moment, about what my reality is today. And today, well today I’m just not feeling the TBI love.

Are You Considering a Complementary Health Approach?

Millions of Americans use complementary health approaches. Like any decision concerning your health, decisions about whether to use complementary approaches are important. This article will assist you in your decisionmaking about complementary health products and practices.

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Cycling to Recovery After Brain Injury

This is not a ride for the faint of heart. Yet one mile at a time, I have proven so many to be wrong.

Reaching Back in Time — a Message to My Younger Self

Reaching Back in Time â€“ a Message to my Younger Self

Summer is such a fun time of year. In fact, it’s my favorite season. What better time of year than to talk about suicide?

Letter From the Other Side: Return from a Traumatic Brain Injury

Letter From the Other Side â€” Return from a Traumatic Brain Injury

The Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page writes about rebuilding his life after a traumatic brain injury.

9 Tips to Starting Your Brain Injury Recovery Process

9 Tips to Starting Your TBI Recovery Process

If you feel like something is wrong, keep pushing for testing or have your loved one push for you. Think of your general practitioner as a gatekeeper to get you to people with the real expertise...

Are You Shocked by Brain Injury? That's Not a Bad Thing

Are You Shocked by Brain Injury? Thatâ€™s Not a Bad Thing

My exposure to brain injury has been a journey in education and life lessons. Connected to the brain injury community by circumstance, coincidence, and the universe speaking (loudly) for the past few years, I’ve learned some things.

I Can Fix You

It took a few minutes to go over my medical history as we sat in his exam room. He took a few notes, listened to our story, took a few more notes, and asked a question or two. He then looked us square in the eyes and uttered four words. “I can fix you.”

What Is Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health?

We’ve all seen the words “complementary,” “alternative,” and “integrative,” but what do they really mean?

My Insurance-Driven Recovery

It’s a tough nut to swallow when you look back and realize with stunning clarity that the very quality of day-to-day life after a TBI is largely determined by how well insured you are.

Today I Found a Letter to Myself

I found something special—a letter I’d hand written to myself marked: To be opened six months later. I don’t have any memory of writing the letter, but when I read it all these years later, I was pretty impressed with what I had to say. Especially since I remember that when my rehab staff recommended journaling after my TBI, my entries were really depressing...

Life in the Zebra Herd — The Survival Skills Necessary to Thrive after a Brain Injury

Recovery from a TBI is not a spectator sport. Anyone who lives daily with a brain injury knows that recovery takes work! So, specifically, what have I done?

Managing Headaches After Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Ask the Expert: Worsening Headaches After TBI

This patient fact sheet focuses on non-drug options to help you manage your headaches.

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An Unexpected Miracle

I was finally able to do something that I’ve not been able to in several years. And I was able to do it with new hope.

Traumatic Brain Injury: A Lifetime of Recovery

Traumatic Brain Injury â€“ A Lifetime of Recovery

I am a very average “TBI Guy.” I have ongoing memory challenges. Word-finding challenges and aphasia are my constant companions. Add a splash of vertigo and half a cup of tinnitus and you have the perfect recipe for a pretty average post-concussive life. And amazingly, today I am okay with that...

Managing Headache and Neck Pain After TBI

Head Injury and Dizziness

TBI Symptom Management: Dizziness After Brain Injury

Dizziness is one of the symptoms that you may experience after a concussion. It may make you feel unsteady and like things are moving when they are not.

Resetting Priorities — What's Really Important?

Recovery from a brain injury is not an event; it is a lifelong process. Sometimes the truth will be easily digestible, while at other times, self-awareness is painful. But this is all part of the process.

How a Brain Injury Made Me Smarter

Ann Zuccardy offers candid, witty insights gleaned from her personal struggle after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) changed her life.

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Snowboarder Kevin Pearce, From Crash to Giving Back

How a traumatic crash on the half pipe transformed Kevin Pearce to a new kind of leader in the snowboarding community through his Love Your Brain campaign.

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Second Wind

Over the last few months, as my five-year anniversary passed, I felt an internal change. No longer was I simply trying to keep my head above TBI water. A new passion started to stir inside of me...

Sorrow to Wisdom

In 1989, on my way home from work, a semi-truck hit me. I suffered a severe brain injury and spent eight days in a coma. I spent the next ten years focusing on myself and becoming the best I could be with what I had left.