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Evidence Suggests Amateur Contact Sports Increase Risk of Degenerative Disorder

A Mayo Clinic study links amateur contact sports — football, boxing, wrestling, rugby, basketball, baseball and others played while in school — with the development of CTE, which when severe can affect mood, behavior, and cognition.

"You Look Great!" -- Living Inside a Brain Injury

John Byler's short film offers a rare view of what it's like to live with traumatic brain injury.

Wireless Sensor Enables Study of Blast-Induced TBI

A Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System for Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury

A new system that has been shown to record for the first time how brain tissue deforms when subjected to the kind of shock that causes blast-induced trauma commonly seen in combat veterans.

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My Strategies for Surviving Social Minefields

Remembering to follow survival tips is probably the most important thing you can do to live better with even a mild brain injury.

What TBI Teaches Us About Endings

Through twenty-four years of marriage, I believed we had a connection that nothing could sever, and then his brain injury separated him from our past.

There Are No Words

As I've learned during my husband's struggle with aphasia, words are important, but they are not our sole form of communication.

Living a Complicated Life After Brain Injury

Recently, life unfolded in a way I never saw coming. The raw, gut-level emotional pain was unimaginable. And for the first time ever, I decided that a topic was too raw, too real, and too emotional to even consider writing about. Until now.

PTSD Fact Sheet: Finding a Therapist

Tips for finding a therapist.

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Perfect Sense

It was the first year of my dad’s brain injury. He was nasty. I was nasty. I don’t regret much, but I certainly regret telling my father that I hate him and that he can’t come to my wedding.

Brain Injury & Adolescents: 5 Strategies for Talking with your Teen

Teens need to be able to talk about their plans and concerns with adults, but it can sometimes be difficult for adults to get out of the driver’s seat and let the teen take charge.

Brain Injury — What's next?

A brain injury can change life forever for the person who sustains the injury and for those in a relationship with that person. Recovery is a lifelong journey with a series of changes, challenges and rewarding experiences.

4 Essential Steps to Getting the Most Out of Support Tools

The Center on Brain Injury Research & Training offers the following suggestions for how to teach, practice, and review selected support tools.

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TBI Myths & Facts

Everyone's brain injury is different and the recovery patterns are too. Getting our facts straight is a crucial first step in moving toward the best possible outcomes.

What's in Your TBI Toolkit?

Brain injuries can change one's ability to organize and plan, get started on tasks or activities, and remember dates, times, or how to do things. There are many tools that can be used to compensate for these changes. What's in your TBI Toolbox?

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Have You Seen My Old Life?

Over the last few years, I have come to the slow realization that there is no way to wholly rebuild a life shattered by traumatic brain injury. There will always be a few pieces that are missing.

Everyday Woes

Families who have survived traumatic brain injury know when life is really hard and when it’s not.

Distractions and Diversions = Survival

A moment of being distracted means a moment of escaping my reality… Maybe, without realizing it in your own stressful situation, you have practiced what I call "distracted survival skills."

The Not-So-Good Days

The bad days suck. They suck more than we let on to most people, and they drain us emotionally for days afterward. Perhaps the best way to describe it is this...

Shattering the One Year Myth

Like so many others who share my fate, I get a bit reflective every year around TBI anniversary time. I now allow myself to look to the future with hope, a realistic hope that I will continue to heal. But there was a day that someone stole my hope and left me completely and utterly devastated.

Falling Away

In learning the stories of other TBI survivors and caregivers, I feel an immediate kinship, a sense of connectedness to those with a shared experience. But there is also a downside.

Forgive Yourself

In the midst of crisis, between panic and hysteria, thoughts creep in. How did this happen? What could I have done? These questions form the beginning of a long line of self-recriminating thoughts that haunt many caregivers...

How Is TBI Diagnosed?

Diagnosis begins when you talk to a health care provider about the injury. Here is what to expect.

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How Is TBI Treated?

Â¿QuÃ© cuidados mÃ©dicos debe recibir un paciente con traumatismo cerebral?

How medical personnel try to stabilize the patient and assess the level of consciousness.

Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research

Traumatismo cerebral: Esperanza en la investigaciÃ³n

This article provides an introduction to TBI, along with a glossary of medical terms associated with brain injury.

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How Does TBI Affect the Brain?

There are a variety of immediate effects on the brain, including various types of bleeding and tearing forces that injure nerve fibers and cause inflammation, metabolic changes, and brain swelling.

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