A story in the Jackson Clarion Ledger out of Mississippi looks at the challenges of caring for people with traumatic brain injury.
The story refers to a 34-year-old man named Neal Sandifer who suffered traumatic brain injury, and must now leave the nursing home where he had been staying.
The story quotes Lee Jenkins, executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Mississippi, as saying that putting Sandifer in a nursing home ...
continue reading...An article in the New York Times tells the story of a brain-damaged, two-year-old girl whom doctors describe as “neurologically devastated,” and used her story as an example of the difficult issues surrounding the expensive care of patients who will never recover.
The girl, Portia Davis, has virtually no brain, the story says.
Portia’s mother, Venita Davis, was 27 weeks pregnant and had started having labor pains when her doctor gave her a drug to stop uterine contractions and ordered a sonogram, ...
continue reading...According to the Mayo Clinic, traumatic brain injury occurs when an external mechanical force causes brain dysfunction. That “external mechanical force” usually takes the form of a violent blow or jolt to the head or body, although it can also be an object penetrating the skull, such as a bullet or shattered piece of skull.
The condition encompasses a broad range of severity, from a relatively mild form that can cause ...
continue reading...The San Francisco Chronicle has printed a column by Karl Weisgraber, a 71-year-old man who suffered a traumatic brain injury after he fell off a ladder while doing work on his house and hit his head on a rock.
Weisgraber is a retired biochemist who worked on cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s research at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. He spent three weeks in a coma and, through therapy, had to relearn how to walk, read and write.
An introduction to Weisgraber’s column ...
continue reading...The methods for diagnosing brain injuries in university athletic programs are not consistent, and may not represent the best way to determine who’s at risk for future problems, according to an article in MedicalXpress.
The article cites a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery, which found that a concussion is usually diagnosed according to athletes’ subjective symptoms. Researchers also concluded that use of the term “concussion” in sports injuries may ...
continue reading...The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) is developing some promising forms of technology to combat traumatic brain injury in U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, Fox News reports.
According to the report: “The mildest form of such injury, known as a concussion, is a problem familiar with sports fans. But military medical experts often refer to traumatic brain injury, or TBI, as the signature injury from Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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