There’s a lot of speculation about just how well the NFL is managing its players’ safety in the wake of very high profile traumatic brain injury research through the past year, dramatic deaths, and lawsuits from former players. Through all this attack, the NFL has gained an image of a big business that often is…
ReadAfter getting hit by a car while walking home from a friend’s house, James Edwards’s parents were left wondering if they would ever see their son smile at them again. At the age of 16, Edwards was deeply comatose, and no doctor could predict what would happen to him. He is still limited, but over…
ReadEvery day soldiers return from their service with traumatic brain injuries that will seriously impact their lives for years, possibly even until they die. Lt. Col Richard Brunk knows all of this well. Now retired from the service, the chaplain had only been in Baghdad two weeks when a rocket destroyed the chapel he was…
ReadIn 1994, two separate people received serious traumatic brain injuries that forever altered their lives. Michael Bethune was 22 when he was in a car accident in the fall that left him so severely brain damaged that his family was told he would never be able to speak, or understand language again. Michelle Dunniway was…
ReadWhile most Christmas lists across the country feature materialistic goods like iPads and televisions, one New Hampshire woman is asking for something much more meaningful. Myla Gott, a 22 year-old woman from North Hampton, NH suffered a diffuse axonal brain injury during a car crash in 2009, and she has been fighting back from TBI…
ReadProfessor Valery Feigin is Professor and Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, at the AUT University of Aukland. He recently did an interview with April Cashin-Garbutt for News Medical, about his recent research on TBI. Beyond providing people with a very nice and simple explanation of TBI, his statements also reveal…
ReadDr. Michael Whalen, MD PhD is the HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has also spent his time studying traumatic brain injury and treatment for the condition. He sat down with Ravi Parikh from Medgadget to discuss the current state of TBI treatment and infrared light treatments he is working on…
ReadOne Persian Gulf War veteran is undergoing an experimental treatment for the nearly 20 year old issues he has from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and so far the results are astounding. For an hour every day, for at least 40 days, Jeff Brennan, a former Marine sergeant, sits in…
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