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How to Avoid Severe Brain Injury

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]

How to Avoid Severe Brain Injury

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]

Barriers to Returning to Work Following a Brain Injury

The severity of the injury - whether it is mild, moderate or severe - will have a large bearing on when and if someone is able to return to work following a traumatic brain injury.  But that is only one of the many things that will determine a survivor’s ability to return to the work [...]

Brain Injuries and Apathy

Apathy is very common following a traumatic brain injury and may often occur in conjunction with depression, but not always.  It may become apparent shortly after a brain injury or may not be evident until a few years later.
There are many indications of this deficit - a decrease in goal-oriented activities and no interest in [...]

Brain Injuries and Dependencies

Following a traumatic brain injury, the survivor may become dependent upon those close to them.  These dependencies may be emotional in nature or based on a substance abuse.  Whatever dependency is involved, it can lead to difficulties in recovering from the injury.
Some of the emotional problems that can lead to dependency are a result of [...]