Posts Tagged ‘TBI’
By Paul Stone On May 6th, 2013
It has long been understood that self-reporting is a terrible diagnostic method for brain injury, but until recently there were few other ways to go about identifying possible brain injuries. For athletes,…
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By Paul Stone On April 29th, 2013
Two weeks after the tragic blasts in Boston that shook the world, we still know very little about the motivation behind the attacks. We have learned much about the two…
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By Paul Stone On April 29th, 2013
Many keeping up with brain injuries in football, myself included, have considered rule changes as an unlikely solution to the huge numbers of concussions on the field, because we have…
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By Paul Stone On April 24th, 2013
Out of all of the issues that can haunt a traumatic brain injury patient, behavior control seems to be a common and extraordinarily tragic part of the puzzle. From depression, addiction, anxiety,…
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By Paul Stone On April 24th, 2013
Close to one fifth of the soldiers returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq are diagnosed with blast concussions, but many of these may actually have a rare hormone deficiency so…
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By Paul Stone On April 23rd, 2013
Despite the previous ideas that age and amnesia are the primary indicators of prolonged recovery time for traumatic brain injury, a new study suggests that severity of a broader range…
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By Paul Stone On April 22nd, 2013
Sometimes writing about traumatic brain injury facts doesn’t get the point across well enough. Saying that more than 1.7 million cases of TBI occur every year, as the CDC has…
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By Paul Stone On April 17th, 2013
New evidence is making it more and more clear that heading a soccer ball could be a problem over a prolonged period of time. Previous research has suggested this, and…
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By Paul Stone On April 16th, 2013
While almost all of the coverage about traumatic brain injury lately seems to focus on well-paid adult males, there are many more young men and women suffering concussions during competitive sports. Women…
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By Paul Stone On April 16th, 2013
Yesterday the world watched as bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. So far three have died, and over 140 people were injured. Despite the sadness and…
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