If the injury is a traumatic brain injury, all of the following reasons are twice as important; patients cannot recover alone, and must rely upon family to look after things while they concentrate on healing. To provide peace of mind so the family can concentrate and devote all their time and attention to the patient’s [...]
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Christina MacEachern was injured on September 12th, 2005, when her head came into contact with a semi-trailer truck. She suffered severe bi-frontal lobe injuries. A 60-minute video of Christina (post-injury) was produced by Shawn Serdar of Pacific Producers Group and was shown during Christina’s trial. This 13 minute, edited version of the video has kindly [...]
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It seems that researchers these days are really trying to look at the differences between men and women in brain injury. When I started practicing in this area, the new research was about whiplash-type injuries and the discussion looked at the female physiology (slimmer necks and less musculature in the neck and upper back) and [...]
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Our experience with survivors of TBI certainly accords with proposition that both survivors and their families need support to enhance the survivor’s functional capabilities and everyone’s well-being. Recent research agrees with us. A six-week group intervention study looked at patients with acquired brain injury and their significant others and found that support enhanced both client [...]
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Unfortunately, the consequences of brain injury are far reaching, and the risk of further injury after an initial brain injury is a real risk that many of our clients face. Most clients find that the struggle through rehabilitation is hard enough, but as they are told that they can’t (or shouldn’t) go back to the [...]
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