Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

NEWPORT NEWS, Va - Traumatic brain injury has taken center stage as a health concern for both the military and sports professionals. Last week, Hillier Ignite, a fledgling philanthropic organization based in Virginia Beach, awarded its first Lifesaving Innovation Award to InfraScan Inc., a medical device company that focuses on developing hand-held diagnostic devices for head injury and stroke assessment based on near infrared technology. Founder Luke Hillier made the award at the Warrior Expo, a trade event sponsored by his company ADS Inc., at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Citing his grandmother's experience with a bad fall, Hillier noted the importance of early detection and treatment of a brain bleed. "Right now traumatic brain injury, TBI, is a pressing problem," he said. His new venture, Hillier Ignite, is committed to supporting entrepreneurial effort and innovation while supporting active duty military and veterans. "This could save the lives of our military and it also has civilian applications," he added. The Infrascanner Model 2000 is a portable device that screens for intracranial bleeding to determine whether patients need a CT scan and immediate attention. It can be powered by disposable AA batteries. The improved model, based on an earlier prototype, was … Continue reading →

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A hormone produced by the body could help heal a traumatic brain injury. Health issues lead to Lester Talley's near fatal accident. The husband and father of two suffered a serious traumatic brain injury. "My brain had started swelling," Talley said. "There really is no definitive therapy for the treatment of acute brain injury," said Dr. Laskowitz a neurologist. Lester's wife Ashley feared the worst. "Seemed like my world was coming to an end," Ashley Talley said. While in a coma, Lester was enrolled in a phase three trial called Synapse. The study is testing if progesterone could help treat traumatic brain injury It is a natural hormone produced in men and women that's most often associated with pregnancy. "There is good evidence that it reduces inflammation," Laskowitz said. The hormone has to be given within eight hours of an injury. It is infused into the brain for five days straight. "...and their ultimate endpoint is how they are doing at six months," Laskowitz said. Read more: Hormone could help heal traumatic brain injuries … Continue reading →

A young mum left severely brain-damaged after botched hospital treatment during childbirth has won compensation after a seven-year battle. Auckland woman Joanna Louise Crampton, 37, was admitted to North Shore Hospital two days before Christmas in 2005 to give birth to her third son. She suffered a "catastrophic" amniotic fluid embolism - a rare emergency in which debris enters the body during childbirth. The hospital was severely criticised for its "monumental failure" in the case. Crampton's family has been battling the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which declined a 2006 claim because it said the injuries were as a result of an "unpredictable complication", rather than a lack of treatment. But after seven years, that fight is finally over, with an Auckland District Court judge overturning ACC's decision. It is not clear what Crampton's compensation will be. Her former husband, Damian Crampton, said lawyers are still discussing the figure. He told the Sunday Star-Times that his former wife now lives at a West Auckland residential rehabilitation centre for people with traumatic brain injuries. "We still go visit her," he said. Damian Crampton has since remarried and raises their three children with his new wife. In a decision released last month, Judge … Continue reading →

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NY woman allegedly defrauded $480,000 from Boston Marathon charity. The FBI released video and photos of two suspects in the Boston marathon bombing on April 18, 2013. The twin bombings killed three and injured 170 on April 15, 2013. This video show Suspect 1 in a black hat. UPI License photo TROY, N.Y., July 19 (UPI) -- A New York woman is accused of faking medical records and defrauding a Boston Marathon charity of $480,000 for a brain injury that doesn't exist, police say. Audrea Gause, 26, of Troy was arrested and arraigned in Troy City Court and sent to the Rensselaer County (N.Y.) Jail Friday. She faces charges in New York for being a fugitive from justice in Massachusetts for allegedly defrauding One Fund Boston, the charity set up for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union reported. Gause is accused of forging detailed medical records and bills for an alleged brain injury suffered in the bombings during the Boston Marathon. She claimed to have spent two days hospitalized at Boston Medical Center and 10 days of treatment at Albany Medical Center Hospital in New York. However, an investigation by Martha Coakley, attorney general of … Continue reading →

Taskirat, Ammarah and The vehicle | credits: File copy A police corporal, identified simply as Friday, has been accused of knocking down a teacher, Mrs. Taskirat Anjolaiya, and her baby, Ammarah. It was learnt that as a result of the incident, the mother and daughter sustained pelvic fracture, brain injury and a broken jaw among others. According to eyewitness, the policeman, who is attached to FESTAC Police Division, was driving against traffic on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway when he knocked down the victims. PUNCH Metro learnt that the graduate of Mathematics Education was alighting from a commercial bus with her child and had not noticed the police patrol van coming from the wrong direction. The victims husband, Sulaiman, said the policeman claimed he was running an errand for the Divisional Police Officer, Ibrahim Zango. The policeman was said to have told them that he was instructed by the DPO to drop off a woman at the airport in Ikeja and he drove against traffic to avoid traffic congestion on the appropriate route so that she would not miss her flight. He said, The accident occurred on June 23, 2013. My wife was on her way to a religious progamme when a police … Continue reading →

Awareness of NFL Player Brain-Injuries Draws Attention to Brain Injuries Among Public at Large, Says Noted Brain-Injury Attorney with Law Firm Weitz & Luxenberg Brain injuries happen to workers on the job, they happen to men and women in uniform on and off the battlefield, they happen to seniors in nursing homes who are negligently cared for and fall as a result, says brain injury attorney Shareef Rabaa, Esq. Just recently in the news was the story of pop-singer Miguel inflicting a head injury on an unsuspecting girl in the audience while he was performing a dance number at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards. In short, every active person is at risk for brain injury, says Rabaa, a noted legal authority on neurological injuries traumatic brain injuries, in particular. And, increasingly, people are becoming aware of this fact. Public awareness of brain injury and, specifically, a devastating form of it known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE] has been building for some time but did not capture wide attention until the sports press began running hard this year with stories about former NFL players who have serious health problems they and numerous experts say are the product of brain injury, Rabaa … Continue reading →

The first satellite center of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Fort Belvoir opens its doors for new patients beginning Monday. The Fort Belvoir National Intrepid Center of Excellence will extend the services of the main NICoE facility at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to area servicemembers and be the new home of Traumatic Brain Injury care at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. Funded and conceived by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, the Fort Belvoir NICoE satellite is the first of about seven to 10 satellite centers scheduled for construction over the next several years at some of the largest military deployment bases around the country. At 25,000 square feet, the NICoE satellite will serve about 600 servicemembers each year. Our goal is to revolutionize the care model for Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress through an innovative, inter-disciplinary care model for both the warrior and Family to maximize functional ability and allow a productive return to military service or community, said Heechin Chae, Traumatic Brain Injury Department chief at Belvoir hospital. The facility will use an interdisciplinary approach to TBI rehabilitation, featuring a comprehensive team offering intensive diagnosis and treatment, according to Chae. Because of … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES - We know maps can lead us to some of our favorite destinations, but did you know they may also put us on the road to better health? Now, new research in brain mapping may help find treatments to some of the most common neurological and memory disorders. Dr. Mayank Mehta is one of a number of researchers at UCLA studying the secrets of the human brain. "We hope this could help us understand what goes wrong in Alzheimers disease," said Mehta, a professor of neurology, physics and astronomy. Mehta mapped neuron patterns that form when rats do simple tasks in hopes of learning more about how different sections of the brain communicate. "The brain has its own dynamics, its own laws of physics. If that goes wrong, clearly it will play a role in loss of memory, such as Alzheimers or PTSD," Mehta explained. They're diseases that Dr. Arthur Toga said may one day be treated with targeted therapies using brain mapping. "Our ability to look at a living brain of an individual that has a disease, or has had a traumatic brain injury, has allowed us to target exactly what has happened and suggest various therapies," … Continue reading →

A traumatic brain injury (TBI), typically resulting from car crashes, slip and falls, or other severe impacts, may occur without the victim even realizing they have suffered an injury at all. Although the victim may look and speak normally, dangerous symptoms can develop from sudden brain impact such as decreased cognition, change in mental state, or altered personality. With both the lack of awareness and victim recognition, sufferers typically go unnoticed, failing to receive any mental care for their injury. A tramautic brain injury can occur when the skull strikes an object such as a steering wheel, the windshield of a car, or other object at a high velocity. The impact may cause bruising of the brain not visible at the time of accident. However, it is important to remember that a traumatic brain injury can also result without the head striking anything at all. When the neck is whipped back and forth, the brain has nowhere to go except back and forth inside the skull literally striking the skull with each movement. So while the head may not strike anything, the brain is striking the skull repeatedly. A traumatic brain injury can result from such force. Diagnosis can be … Continue reading →