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Surrender

To be a caregiver at home for someone who is severely injured is to surrender. You surrender your time, put your ambitions on hold, and surrender many of the simple pleasures. You also surrender your peace of mind, your good night’s sleep, and routine. But there are ways to make life a little easier and more enjoyable...

Have You Seen These Apps for PTSD?

Apps to help with PTSD.

Is the Time Right for Alternative Therapies?

Faced with a condition for which mainstream medicine has no satisfactory treatment, what should a reasonable and prudent person do? Accept the dismal verdict or cautiously explore alternatives?

Traumatic Brain Injury Basics

Brain injury affects the roots of who we are — our ability to think, communicate, and connect with other people. Here's a good place to start learning.

Infographic: How Many Traumatic Brain Injuries Each Year?

An infographic showing how many people are diagnosed, hospitalized, treated in the ER and released, or die from traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

What Is the Glasgow Coma Scale?

This standard scale measures levels of consciousness in a person following a brain injury. Learn how it works.

Making Tough Decisions Easier

My son’s brain injury has taught me over and over again that I often have little control over life’s circumstances. But that does not mean I throw caution to the wind. Here are a few things we've learned regarding legalities and Taylor's ongoing care and future.

What Are the Potential Long-Term Outcomes of Concussion and Other Brain Injury?

From post-concussive syndrome to CTE. What we know about the potential long-term outcomes of brain injury.

Best Practices Lacking for Managing TBI in Geriatric Patients

Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Epidemiology, Outcomes, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions

The lack of evidence-based, geriatric-specific traumatic brain injury guidelines presents barriers to optimal care for older adults that suffer a TBI.

Taking it all in Stride

Sometimes unexpected and unrelated medical conditions can exacerbate my traumatic brain injury symptoms. I have known this for years, but have just learned a new lesson about how true this can be.

Open up! Share! It’s Time!

David Figurski & Donna O’Donnell Figurski

The path of brain injury is a lonely one, not only for the survivor but also for the caregiver. Often family and friends, who gratefully were available during the initial event, return to their lives. It’s expected. return to their lives. It’s expected. But, their absence and support often leave the survivor and the caregiver with feelings of loneliness and abandonment.

Who Are the Rehab Specialists?

This resource is a glossary that describes the different types of rehabilitation specialists.

Living Between Two Brain Injuries

In 2010, I found myself in the sandwich generation between two people I adored, my 70-year-old father and my 12-year-old daughter, both of whom suffered serious insults to the brain.

Life After Brain Injury: My Struggle with Depression

Brandon Blake and Michelle Kauffman share how they worked to address challenges they faced with depression after experiencing a brain injury.

Repeated Head Hits, Not Concussion, May Be Behind CTE

A study published in Brain, a journal of neurology, presents the strongest case yet that repetitive hits to the head that aren't concussions do cause CTE.

Hits, Not Concussions, Cause CTE

Researchers have identified evidence of early CTE brain pathology after head impact, even in the absence of signs of concussion.

Spin Cycle

If I am busy with every little thing, then I don’t have time to be sad, angry, feel hopeless or miss our lives and the son I knew before. I can diminish the magnitude of Taylor’s injury. It just won’t hurt as much, until it hurts like hell and can’t be ignored. So here is what I learned in my own version of spin class.

The Mechanisms Blast Brain Injury: What We Know and Don't Know

Mild blast traumatic brain injury (bTBI) accounts for the majority of brain injury service members and veterans but the mechanisms of primary blast brain injury continue to be disputed. Addressed in this review are blast wave transmission through the skull, direct cranial transmission, skull flexure dynamics, thoracic surge, acceleration, and cavitation.