TBI and Stroke: Risk Increases
Each year approximately 1.7 million people experience a TBI. These injuries include a wide range of consequences from brief changes in mental status to more enduring and severe injuries with…
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Blast related TBI and Sports concussions: a pathway to CTE
The recent focus on sports-related concussions and the onset of CTE in the later years of athlete’s life continues to make us more aware of the long-term problems associated with…
ReadUpcoming Film Looks at Future of Football
After seeing only the seven minute trailer for an upcoming documentary film about football, I won’t view the sport the same way again. “Gladiators: The Uncertain Future of American Football”…
ReadIntroduction of Guest Blogger George Visger
I first met George Visger in 2010 when he responded to a blog I wrote about brain injury and the NFL. He introduced himself as a former NFL player who…
ReadUCLA Football Player Makes Tough Decision
Patrick Larimore, a UCLA football player, made a tough decision to give up college football and his dream of playing in the NFL after sustaining his sixth concussion. Patrick started…
ReadThe impact of Less Than Honorable discharges of TBI Veterans
During my years of working exclusively with disabled veterans, my work brought me to homeless shelters, drug courts, veteran’s courts, prisons and county jails, and working with prison re-entry. My…
ReadMilitary Brain Injury Study
Taking a play from the playbook of the National Football League, the US Military has created a “Brain Bank” repository program for the study of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in…
ReadMovie about a snowboarder with a TBI
I normally don’t watch much television and never anything about extreme sports, but last night I was channel surfing and noted that HBO was showing a movie “Crash Reel” about…
ReadBrain scan rules out Alzheimer’s for former NFL Player
A tracer-enhanced PET scan for beta-amyloid plaques was used to diagnosis a former NFL player with post-traumatic dementia related to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This case illustrated the importance of…
ReadIt’s a Family Affair: Welcome to the “New Normal”
Following a brain injury the person enters into a system of medical care starting with a hospital’s Emergency Department, then to the ICU and onto to acute care. In the…
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