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My Child's Brain Injury: Coping with Guilt

Stop the "what ifs" and "if onlys" and take action where you can to help your child.

What Can I Do to Help Feel Better After a Concussion?

Although most people recover after a concussion, how quickly they improve depends on many factors.

Need FMLA Time Off? Follow This Advice

Increase the likelihood that your employer will grant a request for FMLA leave by following these steps.

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Hospital Care Following a Head Injury

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Hospital care after someone has a traumatic brain injury can run the gamut from a quick neurological checkup and perhaps an MRI imaging test to months of fulltime monitoring and care.

Diagnosing Brain Injury

It's called the “invisible injury” for a reason: brain injury is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat.

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Vision Problems Following Brain Injury

Up to 40% of people with brain injury experience related vision disorders. Some vision-related issues can be permanent; others resolve quickly. Here's what you need to know.

TBI 101: Physical Symptoms

What are the immediate physical symptoms of brain injury? What symptoms may change and persist over time?

TBI 101: Sleeping Problems

For people recovering from a traumatic brain injury, sleep is especially important, but people with brain injury often have trouble getting the quantity and quality of sleep they need.

TBI 101: Memory Problems

Brain Injury Basics: Thinking and Cognitive Symptoms

Memory is the brain taking in, keeping, recalling, and using information. A brain injury can affect any of these facets of memory. And it can also make it hard to learn and remember things.

Thinking & Cognitive Symptoms Following Brain Injury

Thinking and Cognitive Symptoms Following Brain Injury

Many people who sustain a brain injury experience problems with their ability to think, plan, concentrate, and remember. Some cognitive symptoms may appear right away, while others can arise long after the injury.

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Depression After Brain Injury: What You Need to Know

Depression can sometimes be a double-whammy. While depressed, you don’t have the energy or confidence to do what you need to do to try to feel better. Here are a few strategies that people with post-TBI depression have suggested.

Assistive Technology for People with Brain Injury

Assistive Technology for People Brain Injury

A brain injury can bring with it all sorts of challenges. A person’s balance may be off; he may have lost part of his field of vision; or his memory might be so compromised that within moments of seeing or hearing something, it’s gone. But like a magnifying glass for someone who has trouble reading the small print, there are many assistive technologies available for people with TBI.

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Coping with Post-TBI Anxiety & Stress

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Anxiety can come in many colors and textures following a brain injury. It can bubble up in crowded, noisy places. It can surface when there is too much quiet — when worries seem to snowball and there is no place to hide.

Advocacy After Brain Injury

Armed with basic information and helpful resources, anyone can become an effective advocate for themselves. Some people may choose to hire an advocate, while others may ask family and friends to help out.

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Accessibility & Brain Injury: What You Need to Know

People with brain injury can have problems with accessibility. They can run into countless obstacles — from websites that don’t take into account someone with vision problems or memory problems to buildings without wheelchair access. Here's what you need to know.

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Untangling the Vine of TBI

The greenbrier plant is not what it appears to be. It’s innocent looking while invasive. It comes raging back after you cut it down, and it can choke what’s underneath. If this sounds a little bit like traumatic brain injury, it is.

Female and Male Mice Suffer, Recover from TBI Differently

Female Brain is Slower to Start the Healing Process After Brain Injury

The study, published in GLIA, is the first to specifically examine how sex alters the time-course of inflammation in the brain after TBI, and their findings suggest that sex is an important factor to consider when designing and testing new drugs to treat TBI.

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TBI 101: Behavioral & Emotional Symptoms

Common behavioral and emotional problems people with TBI can experience.

Retina May Be Sensitive Gauge of Blast-Wave Pressure Injury

Lasting Retinal Injury in a Mouse Model of Blast-Induced Trauma

First study to compare neurological and ocular effects of blast injury may open up paths to new interventions.

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An Open Letter to America, From One of Your Veterans

My experiences don’t define me, and the Purple Hearts, TBI, and mental health diagnoses of my brothers and sisters don’t define them. I want to survive, and thrive, in spite of what I did and what happened to me...

Ten Questions to Ask Youth Sports Organizations

In whatever sport a child chooses, to feel more comfortable and confident with their participation as it relates to concussion risk, parents must do their homework and ask questions of the league and coaches about how they handle head safety.

Caring for a Veteran with TBI: What You Need to Know

Plain-language care information to give you the bottom line on managing traumatic brain injury (TBI) for the Veteran you love.

Caring for a Veteran with PTSD: What Do You Need to Know

Plain-language care information to give you the bottom line on managing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for the Veteran you love.

Caregiver Self Care: Your Emotional Health

Military Caregiving: Emotional Self Care

When challenging things happen, emotional health lets you bounce back and move on. Most of us take emotional and mental health for granted and only focus on it when problems occur. But like physical health, it requires attention to build and maintain.

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From There to Here

So how exactly did I get from there to here? From complete ruination of the human will to thrive to living a life worthwhile? The answer is complicated, and our path was a winding one, but in retrospect, a few things have proven to be game-changers.