Comprehensive TBI Information Added To AgingFit.com
The leading website for health AgingFit.com has added a section for traumatic brain injury information to its list of health advice and guidelines. They are hoping to do their part…
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Standard Treatment For TBI Is No Better Than Clinical Monitoring
The standard treatment for traumatic brain injury has just been drastically devalued by a group of researchers at the University of Washington and their collegues at six hospitals in Bolivia…
ReadTBI Patient Asks For Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment For Christmas
While 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…
ReadProf. Valery Feigin Talks Traumatic Brain Injury
Professor 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…
ReadChildren’s Brains Show Structural Change Long After Symptoms
Children who have sustained a traumatic brain injury have evident brain change for long after the physical symptoms subside. These findings were published in The Journal of Neuroscience, and the…
ReadPentagon Says Military TBI Is Down 42 Percent
The latest traumatic brain injury news from the Pentagon is surprisingly good, as they report that incidences of TBI among U.S. troops are down 42 percent. That is a drop…
ReadDr. Michael Whalen Speaks About The Current State of TBI
Dr. 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…
ReadLauren Smith Offers Advice For Parents of Young Football Players
Dr. Lauren Smith is the interim health commissioner of the state Department of Public Health in Massachusetts, and was instrumental in state legislation to force high school coaches to be…
ReadOxygen Treatment Gives Veteran Hope For Healing
One 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),…
ReadStudy Finds More Evidence Linking TBI and CTE
New research published in the scientific journal Brain helps support the theory that repeated “mild” traumatic brain injuries can lead to long-term degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy…
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