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People with TBI who may need life-long care need someone to network and advocate for them. This is not always an easy job, and sometimes family members are not cut out for it.

In the next 5-10 years, we could see revolutionary changes to the way brain injury is treated, diagnosed, managed, and understood as an overall disease process.

When the brain is injured, the body's reparative system calls in the "clean-up cells." Unfortunately, they clean indiscriminately, which can cause more damage.

Once the efficacy study proves definitively that progesterone works as a treatment for moderate to severe TBI and is FDA-approved, progesterone would be a cheap and readily available drug.

In the Phase III trial, humans are given natural progesterone — which comes from yams — within a four-hour window when it can coat the brain and offer neuro protection.

Dr. David Wright explains how Dr. Donald Stein first started studying progesterone as a way to prevent swelling in the brain after a brain injury.

Concussion is not just a football injury. Athletes, parents, coaches, and teams need to address the issues of concussion in all sports and with all ages and both genders.

The NFL and the military are currenty testing how better to detect and understand concussions through various mechanisms like sensors in helmets, mouthpieces, and earpieces.

Not every team has a medical expert or athletic trainer on the sidelines to test players after a suspected concussion. But there are simple guidelines and resources to help.

NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committee Co-Chair Dr. Richard Ellenbogen talks about the lack of a definitive tool to diagnose brain injury, but what techniques we do have to keep athletes safe.

More and more research is proving that repetitive shaking of the brain can often result in long-term neurological decline.

It is powerful — and important for recovery — for people with TBI to hear and share their stories and coping mechanisms with each other after brain injury. Retired Navy Commander Bernadette Semple shares her experiences.