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State Trooper Fortunately Saved from Fatal TBI

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A Mississippi state trooper who recently suffered a brain injury has returned to work. Several months ago, while he was working on a tractor, clearing greenery for a fence on his property, a huge limb fell from a tree and fell onto his head like an arrow, causing his brain to hit the left […]

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Social Education Can Benefit TBI Victims

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Sydney, Australia–Researchers at the Liverpool Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit have found that re-teaching social communication skills to people who have suffered traumatic brain injury can help them recover from their injuries. The study found that such education can help victims’ brains better respond to visual and social cues and thus better read other […]

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Air Force Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic Serves Soldiers

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Alaska–Elmendorf Air Force Base houses the only traumatic brain injury treatment center that the Air Force has. So far, it has treated around 1,500 patients, most of whom (1,100) were soldiers coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan, though almost 20% of soldiers are thought to experience traumatic brain injury.
The Elmendorf Air Force Base’s traumatic […]

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Study Seeks to Understand War Concussion Aftereffects

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Cleveland, OH–The Cleveland Clinic and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, are working together to understand how blasts and explosions in war zones affect in the long-term, as many soldiers who have returned from war zones are still suffering from the effects of explosions.
Many soldiers who suffer traumatic brain injuries in war zones […]

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Carthage to See New Brain Injury Center

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Carthage, NY–November will see the opening of a new brain injury center here. It will be only the third brain injury center in the state of New York. Because there are only two brain injury centers in the state of New York, many people do not or cannot seek the brain injury treatment […]

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