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Dr. Jeffrey Kreutzer describes a tool his team uses to help families identify and talk about their feelings after a brain injury called The Brain Injury Family Intervention Feelings Checklist.
Dr. Jeffrey Kreutzer talks about why it's important to talk openly with people affected by brain injury about emotional and psychological recovery in addition to medical and physical recovery.
Although there’s been a great deal of concern about repeated brain injuries, the long-term effects of single traumatic brain injury is a significant problem that we don't know much about.
Dr. Perl talks about some of the challenges in identifying exact numbers of blast injury in the military, but estimates that it's in the hundreds of thousands. He also talks about questions related to women who may suffer from blast injury in the future and civilians impacted by blast injuries as well.
When it comes to brain injury, it's difficult to make predictions about a person's recovery. This uncertainty, unfortunately, creates a lot of anxiety for families.
There is a process that survivors go through while adjusting to their injury. Dr. Kreutzer explains what this is like from the survivor's point of view.
Sometimes people think that they will not be strengthening their memory if they rely on a compensatory strategy; however, they are actually helping to make their memory stronger by using that technique.