Brain Injury

As women’s sports steal more of the spotlight, especially during the most recent Olympics, more female athletes are sharing their experiences of dealing with traumatic brain injuries. One of athlete brave enough to share her struggle is Sue Lopez, the first semi-professional female football player in the 1970s, who now lives with dementia as a…

Accident victims can suffer a traumatic brain injury due to many different causes. A man or woman may suffer a violent blow to the head in a car accident, while working, after a slip and fall, or due to a construction accident. Newborns may suffer a traumatic brain injury due to medical malpractice. Recreational accidents…

It’s easy to get lost in the language of the medical world. So much terminology goes into every condition and even then there’s usually more than one name for something. Those who aren’t intimately familiar with this field can find it commonplace to use certain conditions or terms interchangeably with little understanding of the intricate…

Victims of a car accident, fall, act of violence, or sports injury who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) need all types of physical help. They need to be treated by neurosurgeons, pain management doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and many other health providers. For emotional and behavioral help, they may need to…

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur for many different reasons: a car crash, a slip and fall, a sports injury, or for other reasons. The common denominator is that there is usually a violent blow to the head. Victims of traumatic brain injuries need immediate emergency medical care. Traumatic brain injuries from a car crash can,…

It is not very often that folks can be proud of being below-average – but when it comes to the number of children with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), being below-average is a good place to be. MedPage Today reports that in a recent study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, “The lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury…