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The Balloon

Being a survivor takes dedication. From my vantage point, you have to be many things. The first, and perhaps most obvious is that survivorship requires strength. Strength is required no matter what stage of recovery or healing the survivor is in.

Types of Traumatic Brain Injury

Learn what can happen to the brain — from compression fractures to contrecoup injury.

CDC Guidelines for Managing Youth Concussions

CDC issues first guidelines to treat youth concussions

For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created guidelines for managing children who have had concussions.

Study Finds Greater Productivity One Year After Brain Injury Within Diverse Communities

Study find greater productivity one year after brain injury within diverse communities

Model system study finds that foreign-born Hispanics living in areas with many foreign language speakers had greater productivity at one-year post-injury.

The Uncertainty of Life After Brain Injury

My biggest fear was laid out in front of me: What if my most difficult brain injury challenges return with a vengeance? I don’t want to be “that guy” who did well for years, only to sink back into the abyss. It happens to others, and it could happen to me.

Joey's Story: The Hope of Fly Fishing

Joey Maxim's story of finding hope through fly fishing

For 16-year-old Joey Maxim, the way back to life after a near-fatal car accident started with a fly rod in his hand.

Just the FAQs: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

USA Today's Just the FAQs explains Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative brain disease found in people who have experienced repetitive hits to the head.

Head and Neck Positioning Affects Concussion Risk

The way our head and neck are positioned during a head-on impact may significantly affect the risk of concussion — but tensed up neck muscles seem to offer far less protection.

The Rehabilitation Shift: From Case Manager to Case Mom – A Mother’s Story

My case manager’s brain was pondering the logistics and the potential extent of Christine’s injuries. But my brain as a Mother was focused intently on keeping myself together so that I could be effective.

To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

I wish I had found Alix Kates Shulman’s memoir "To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed" in the first month of my husband’s severe TBI, and yet I may not have absorbed it the way I did reading it fifteen years post-injury.

What Should Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation in a Transitional Residential Rehabilitation Program Look Like?

The essential therapeutic and medical components of TRR programs that promote restoration of function, participation in meaningful activities and significant life roles, and improve life satisfaction and quality of life.

What Families, Clinicians and Payors Need to Know About Transitional Rehabilitation

When a person sustains a brain injury, they and their family are thrust into a health care system that is unfamiliar and difficult to navigate. Too often, patients do not have access to the full continuum of treatment. This article addresses why that is so and ways to change it.

Sleep Apnea and Brain Injury

Sleep apnea is thought to occur in one-third of those with brain injury and studies suggest that sleep apnea may increase the risk for TBI.

School Nurses: Managing Student Concussions and Privacy Concerns

As a school nurse you are a key member of the school-based return to learn (RTL) concussions management team. Here is what you need to know about HIPAA and Student Health Records.

Recommended Sleep Duration for Adults and Children

Sleep is vital to human health, and a good night’s sleep is essential to overall physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being.

Helping Families Navigate the School System to Obtain Appropriate Services After Brain Injury

Helping Families Navigate the School System to Obtain Appropriate Services after Acquired Brain Injury

Cutting Edge Research in Stem Cell Therapy: An Expert Interview

Cutting Edge Research in Stem Cell Therapy For Traumatic Brain Injury

There are some promising trails for stem cell therapy in stroke - how have those progressed, and how does this relate to brain injury treatment?

Assess Mobile Mourning After Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

The losses due to a brain injury are “moving targets” which continue to change over a long period of time: thus the losses are “mobile.” The injured individual and their family can't fully grieve lost abilities because there is no way to know which abilities are lost forever and which will eventually return.

Managing Post-Traumatic Headaches After Brain Injury

A jolt to your head also causes a jolt to your neck, headaches with neck pain are the most common types of pain after a TBI. About 50% of people with a TBI suffer from headaches.

Managing Pain After Brain Injury

Managing Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury

No two brain injuries are the same. However, pain is one symptom that many people with TBI have. Here's how to manage post-traumatic pain.

Equine Therapy Being Used to Help Wounded Warriors with TBI & PTSD

Photo of two people brushing and petting a brown horse who is facing the camera wearing a bridle

In equine therapy, the behavioral health specialist and the equine handler aren't the therapists the horses are.

Using Biomarkers to Discover Pathways to Healing for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

Approaches that bridge the basic neuroscience of neural-cognitive functioning with the practical realities of clinical rehabilitation are valuable for intervention development, potentially opening the way for therapies that target biological systems and synergistically augment the specific effects of training.

Your Happiness Matters

Our minds are both a beautiful and cruel playground, brain injured or not. Be careful about what you let on that playground, and when your thoughts seem to lean severely in a negative direction, recognize that in painful times, we sometimes think and believe things that are untrue

Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury is a Lifelong Condition

Five-year outcomes of persons with moderate to severe TBI*

The estimated burden of moderate and severe brain injury on public health and key policy strategies to address the long-term consequences of brain injury.

Seizures and Epilepsy: Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about seizure types, what to do, and what not to do.