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Keep Reaching Out for Help After a TBI

Tina Trudel
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Soldiers with TBI and their families should not stop looking for help and guidance; recovery will not happen if people isolate themselves.

Posted on BrainLine August 29, 2012.

Produced by Krystal Klingenberg, Justin Rhodes, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.

About the author: Tina Trudel

Tina M. Trudel, PhD is president/COO of the Lakeview Companies, a leader in brain injury rehab, medically complex care and neurobehavioral treatment, overseeing a national care continuum. She is researcher/former site director of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center-Charlottesville.

Tina Trudel