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Important Facts about a Traumatic Brain Injury
-Most people, after suffering a TBI do make a good recovery. -Using a seatbelt and wearing a helmet is one of the best ways to help prevent a TBI from occurring. -One of the most commonly injured areas of the brain is the Frontal lobe, which controls thinking and emotion regulation. -Males are twice as […]
Living with an Invisible Disability – TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
Hello, I am David A. Grant, writing for TBITalk.com . While there are many people who have lived with lifelong disabilities, I am a relative newcomer to being disabled. For the first forty-nine years of my life, I was fully-abled. Everything changed in late 2010. I was cycling in southern New Hampshire when a sixteen-year-old driver […]
Stay Away from Ordinary Drugs! Take the Natural Route!
Ordinary drugs have shown limited benefits for brain (serious physical or emotional harm) since they don’t address the main cause of what is driving (hard hit to the head that knocks you out) signs of sickness. Now, no neuro-(serving or acting to prevent harm) treatment options exist that improve signs of sickness after a TBI.[5] […]
How to Prevent Neurons from Dying after Brain Injury
Electrical stimulation of the brain by applying current to the eye may help retinal nerve cells to survive injury. While these neurons may not be restored to full function, they are prevented from dying. But to achieve survival, their interconnections, the dendritic tree, needs to disconnect rapidly for the protective action to unfold. In a […]
Sleep is Important in the Healing of TBI
There is a link between the amount of sleep the patient gets and the rate at which their brain heals. A study of 30 people that were hospitalized for moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries found that sleep quality and brain function improved in tandem, researchers reported in the journal Neurology. “Patients who still had […]
New Test to Quickly Identify Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
A new test using peripheral vision reaction time could lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of mild traumatic brain injury, often referred to as a concussion. Identify Brain Injury A new test using peripheral vision reaction time could lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of mild traumatic brain injury, often referred […]
What is a Diffuse Axonal Injury? (DAI)
“As tissue slides over tissue, a shearing injury occurs. This causes the lesions that are responsible for unconsciousness, as well as the vegetative state that occurs after a severe head injury. A diffuse axonal injury also causes brain cells to die, which cause swelling in the brain.” DAI is characterized by axonal separation, in which […]
Tips on How To Recover from a TBI
Recovering from a Brain Injury could be a long and grueling process, especially if you do not have the information to better assist you to heal. In this post, we go over how to help accelerate the healing of your brain. Recover – Get a lot of rest around evening time, and rest amid the […]
Diffuse Axonal Injury
Audio: Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) A brain injury, in which damage is in the form of extensive lesions in white matter tracts occurs over a widespread area. DAI is one of the most prevalent and devastating types of traumatic brain injury, DAIs are a major cause of unconsciousness and most likely, leads to vegetative state after […]