Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

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 →

Colm OMolloy for The Boston Globe Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone (near right) and Dr. Mo Shafi use magnetic stimulation technology to observe brain function on a study participant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. By Karen Weintraub / Globe Correspondent/ July 14, 2013 Although scoffed at for years, computer games that drill specific skills are gaining currency as a viable treatment for brain conditions and a hedge against normal aging. A growing body of evidence suggests that a brain trained this way will be better equipped to work around damage caused by disease, injury, deficits, or aging just as a physically fit person can better avoid and bounce back from injury. Bonnie Wong, a clinical neuropsychologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and her colleagues are starting what they envision as a gym for the mind, offering brain training exercises specially designed computer games as well as nutritional and lifestyle coaching, social opportunities, and classes in meditation, music, and yoga. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers. Copyright 2013 Globe Newspaper Company. Get the full story with unlimited access to BostonGlobe.com. Just 99 for 4 weeks. Get Access Now Continued here: A gym for the mind: Brain ‘training’ gains currency as treatment for … Continue reading →

WAVERLY, IA. - Laura Baker was in the thick of last year's rolling circus of sweat-stained memories that is the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. She was there among the 10,000 riders who mingled in the shadow of grain elevators, jostled each other in line at roadside pie stands and made fast friends by the time they dipped tires a week later in the Mississippi River. Yet Baker doesn't remember pedaling a single mile. The now 26-year-old University of Denver graduate student and Wartburg College alum rode her inaugural RAGBRAI last year with her father, Tom, a Waverly Realtor. So technically, Baker isn't a newbie - often emblazoned with a virginal "V" on his or her calf muscles and subjected to a week of quirky rituals. But she recalls neither the heat nor the high jinks. Weeks after last year's RAGBRAI, she crashed her bike and suffered a traumatic brain injury that erased six months of her memory. Through a grueling yet remarkable year of recovery, she became determined not only to climb back on her bike, but also to return to RAGBRAI with her dad. "That sort of represented getting back to her previous life, I think," … Continue reading →

Buy your city sticker by midnight or pay a fee tomorrow Buy your city sticker by midnight or pay a fee tomorrow Updated: Monday, July 15 2013 10:37 PM EDT2013-07-16 02:37:37 GMT If you don't have a Chicago city sticker yet, you're less than three hours from paying a hefty fine. If you don't have a Chicago city sticker yet, you're less than three hours from paying a hefty fine. Updated: Monday, July 15 2013 10:17 PM EDT2013-07-16 02:17:19 GMT Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she'll seek another term instead of running for Illinois governor next year. Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she'll seek another term instead of running for Illinois governor next year. Updated: Monday, July 15 2013 9:33 PM EDT2013-07-16 01:33:04 GMT There was a big turnout for this year's Taste of Chicago. There was a big turnout for this year's Taste of Chicago. See the article here: Missing 19-year-old with brain injury located, returned to hospital … Continue reading →

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) One of the two teens injured in a parasailing accident in Florida has arrived in her home state of Indiana. Alexis Fairchild, who suffered from brain and spinal injuries, left Florida on Thursday to drive to the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (RHI) in Indianapolis where she will enter her next phase of recovery. Click on the video in this story to see extended interviews from Friday's press conference. She will be getting at least three hours of therapy five days a week. She was scheduled to undergo a brain injury assessment on Friday. It is not known how long she be in inpatient care. Once she is released, there will be significant outpatient therapy. Fairchild's father, Michael Fairchild, and Doctor Lisa Lombard said Alexis, who is currently in a back brace, was in good spirits but did not get much sleep last night after a 12 hour drive from Florida. Dr. Lombard said Alexis will be getting the most intense rehabilitation at the facility. Treatment will include physical therapy, occupational therapy , speech therapy and neuropsychology treatment. I think she is very lucky given what has happened to her, Dr. Lombard said. That was a devastating injury, … Continue reading →

As a San Francisco personal injury attorney, over the years, I have seen many brain injuries and spinal injuries, fractures, burns, internal injuries and wrongful deaths. In any community, we attorneys will be exposed to these serious personal injuries over time; however, catastrophic injuries are actually not all that common to the every attorney. What is shocking about the Asiana Airlines crash is how in the space of mere seconds, so many people sustained so many catastrophic injuries. We know that plane crashes are horrific, and we are usually all saddened by the tragic loss of life. We count those in this crash at SFO as lucky because we only have two fatalities so far. But what about the severe life-altering injuries sustained by so many on board? Yes, the passengers have survived, however the toll of catastrophic injuries is very very high. For example, this recent airplane Korean Asiana Airline crash at SFO, resulted in over 180 injuries. Among those serious personal injuries treated by local hospitals were fractured spines, stretched and torn ligaments, internal bleeding, severe fractures needing surgical repair, compound fractures, road rash and head injuries, many permanent and all requiring long-term treatment. Chief Executive Sue Currin … Continue reading →