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Treating Each Other with Love

In this video, Rosemary talks about the importance of respect, open communication — and laughter — all key ingredients for healing and loving relationships.

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Parenting After TBI

Rosemary feels that her daughters lost both her parents on the day of Hugh's crash.

Are You Holding Back?

As a caregiver, Rosemary believes that "it’s not speaking the truth that’s problematic; it’s the way we speak the truth."

Letting Our Virtues Guide Us

Rosemary wonders how caregivers can benefit from Benjamin Franklin's strategy of cultivating virtues like compassion and understanding.

Five Ways TBI Caregivers Can Enhance Environmental Enrichment and Why They Should

Can increased physical, social, and cognitive stimulation during recovery from brain injury help outcome? Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins thinks so.

Listening to Advice Doesn't Help Unless You Take it!

Listening to Advice Doesnâ€™t Help Unless You Take it!

“You need to take care of yourself.” For a while after Hugh's injury, when Rosemary heard those words she wanted to scream, cry, and stamp her feet!

Pebbles of Progress

The key to making progress — in TBI recovery or toward any goal in life — is to take it one day at a time, stick with it, and celebrate each step along the way.

Reinventing the Family

Abby Maslin shares her thoughts on how her husband's brain injury is helping them become even better parents than they could have imagined.

Tapping into Skills of Resilience After a Brain Injury

Dr. Herman Lukow talks about learning new ways to face challenges after a brain injury.

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Caregivers Need Support, Too

Dr. Herman Lukow talks about how people with TBI have a platoon of doctors and therapists to help in their recovery, but the caregiver has virtually no one.

Finding Validation in Support Groups After a Brain Injury

Dr. Herman Lukow talks about how support groups and club houses can help people with TBI find common ground as well as a place to learn to socialize successfully again.

Daughter Love

Janna Leyde talks about a big puzzle piece that fell into place when her injured father realized he had to love himself in order to love others more fully.

The Purest Joy

Rosemary shares a story of when she and her daughters first knew that their beloved husband/father was still with them.

How Deep Can You Change?

Deep change or slow death? Although studies show that most people choose slow death, Rosemary talks about power of embracing change.

How Can Spirituality and Alternative Medicine Help in Treating Patients with TBI?

Dr. Heechin Chae explains how a person's spirituality, in whatever form, can play an important role in recovery from brain injury.

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Driving Me Insane

What can be done to help the caregiver who’s literally in overdrive? Sometimes nothing, Rosemary says, but chocolate helps.

Do You Need an Empathectomy?

Do you feel your loved one’s pain and sense of loss like it’s happening to you? Maybe, like Rosemary, you need an "empathectomy."

Concussion Recovery: What is Cognitive Rest?

What Physical and Cognitive Rest Really Mean After a Concussion

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about how after a concussion the brain is in a metabolic crisis and, without rest, that crisis is exacerbated.

The Research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about how growing research is showing that CTE not only occurs in the brains of older athletes who have sustained multiple hits to the head, but also in athletes as 17.

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Helping People with Post-Concussive Syndrome

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about the various therapies to help athletes with the prolonged symptoms that often come with post-concussive syndrome which can significantly alter quality of life.

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Future Treatments for Brain Injury, Not Just Brain Injury Symptoms

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about various therapies like hyperbaric oxygen chambers and omega-3 fatty acids that may prove to be effective ways to treat brain injury, not just its symptoms.

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Advice for Parents: What To Do If Your Child Sustains a Concussion

Dr. Robert Cantu describes in details various scenarios to help parents better understand when they can feel safe monitoring their child's symptoms themselves, when to take them to the doctor, or when to rush them to the emergency room.

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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Homing in on Specifics in Research

Researchers are still learning why it is that head trauma is the main factor for CTE, but not all people with head trauma develop CTE.

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Concussion: Frequently Asked Questions from Parents

It's scary for parents after their child has a concussion. Having answers helps with that fear.

5th Alive Day

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner talks about her husband's fifth "alive day" — the day an IED ripped his legs apart and left him with a TBI and PTSD. The day he nearly died.

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