Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

TWIN FALLS Matt Smith couldnt breathe. He couldnt open his eyes. And his brain was beginning to swell. Time was running out and an ambulance would not be able to get to him. Smith had just fallen about 15 feet from an area known as Broken Bridge near Auger Falls, landing on his head, crushing part of his skull and breaking his femur. Three days later, he awoke in a Boise hospital, confused and was covered in tubes and monitors. As his brother walked in the room and started explaining what happened, Smith began pulling out the tubes that kept him alive. Smith told his brother he wanted to leave the hospital. He said, No, man. You almost died, Smith said. Smith underwent brain surgery, and had 30 staples from ear to ear across the top of his forehead. Five weeks later, Smith is up walking and talking, nearly back to his old self. Ive always been kind of a fast talking, lets get it done kind of guy, he said. Now, hes a little slower, but the father and business owner is still getting things done. Originally posted here: Man Recovers from Brain Injury after Accident at Auger Falls … Continue reading →

today's news related articles F ew things are more tied to Wisconsins culture than football. From the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field and the swaying bleachers at Camp Randall in Madison to the high schools, colleges, parks and backyards where the game is played all across the state, football is a part of life here in the Badger State. But now the sport stands at a crossroads. The profound effects of concussions and traumatic brain injuries have many questioning the future and the viability of Americas most popular sport. Enter the Head Health Initiative, a four-year, $60 million collaboration between the National Football League and General Electric. The initiative aims to increase the accuracy and speed of traumatic brain injury diagnosis, accelerate concussion research, develop a new game plan for treatment and ultimately, improve the safety for athletes. Perhaps its fitting then, given the states immense football culture, that the Head Health Initiative will be based in Wisconsin. GE Healthcares global headquarters for Magnetic Resonance (MR) in Waukesha will be the primary development site for the partnership with the NFL. There, plans to produce a state-of-the- art MR brain scanner will be put into action. Here in Waukesha, we focus … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (NBC) - The skull's left corner is gone, leaving a jagged, diagonal edge drenched in red. The eyes are black and frantic. All of it resembles the Iraqi man who, in his final minute alive, stared up at Maj. Jeff Hall. For five years, that face tortured Hall, once a sharp Army leader later shoved to his own ragged edge. Not long ago, a woman handed Hall a blank mask, brushes and paints. She asked him to see what may emerge on the surface. "That image, seared into my mind, began leaking out of me," said Hall, one of hundreds of active-duty troops who have created masks as part of an art therapy program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. "I almost needed to regurgitate it.To be honest, it helped me let it go." Many more masks, some resembling Hall'sviolent creation, some depicting abstract demons, adorn walls at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICOE) on the Walter Reed campus. They reveal scars once carried and cloaked inside the minds of men and women back from war troops diagnosed with mild brain injuries and secondary psychological issues, including post-combat stress. Hall, 43, who titled his mask "The Shock … Continue reading →

ARLINGTON, Va., May 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- South Arlington chiropractor Dr. Wendy Jacobs announced that she is now treating patients for concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Jacobs recently attended the Annual Professional Football Chiropractic Seminar in Indianapolis. The South Arlington chiropractor uses chiropractic adjustments to address neurological damage following traumatic brain injuries. She also uses the Erchonia Laser to help reduce the brain inflammation following a concussive injury. Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia residents who have sustained a concussion may now receive chiropractic treatment from South Arlington chiropractor Dr. Wendy Jacobs. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that affects the nervous system, causing problems that include memory impairment, headaches, difficulty concentrating, and problems with balance and coordination. According to Dr. Jacobs, prompt treatment for a concussion injury is essential to a safe recovery. "Mild concussions are increasingly common injuries sustained while playing contact sports," said Dr. Jacobs. "They can also occur during a car accident. While most concussive traumas are mild, prompt treatment is still important to reduce brain swelling, manage pain, and support the body's natural recovery process." According to Dr. Jacobs, a combination of chiropractic care and laser therapy can help manage pain and … Continue reading →

Prototype spots swelling and bleeding in a pilot studybut the novel technique employed is relatively unproven. A helmet that sends a magnetic field through the wearers head might someday offer a quick way to reveal whether the brain is swelling or bleeding as the result of an injury. In a prototype of the helmet, a small halo-like coil generates a magnetic field above a persons head; another coil, just above the ears, detects the magnetic field induced in the volunteers brain. Because liquid such as blood affects the magnetic fields phase, the team behind the device was able to distinguish eight brain-injured patients from 46 healthy volunteers in a pilot study, they report in the journal PLOS One. The device does not allow researchers to create an image of the brain damage as is possible with computerized tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), state-of-the-art techniques used in major hospitals. But it might one day offer those in more remote settings a simple, cheap method of deciding whether a patient needs to travel for advanced medical care (see Imaging Method Reveals Hidden Brain Injuries). It might also point to a way of using a helmet to detect brain injury … Continue reading →

The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers. Brain calisthenics: A Lumosity user plays an online game. Cancer survivors sometimes suffer from a condition known as chemo foga cognitive impairment caused by repeated chemotherapy. A study hints at a controversial idea: that brain-training software might help lift this cognitive cloud. Various studies have concluded that cognitive training can improve brain function in both healthy people and those with medical conditions, but the broader applicability of these results remains controversial in the field. In a study published in the journal Clinical Breast Cancer, investigators report that those who used a brain-training program for 12 weeks were more cognitively flexible, more verbally fluent, and faster-thinking than survivors who did not train. Patients treated with chemotherapy show changes in brain structure and function in line with diffuse brain injury, and they often report long-term cognitive effects, says Shelli Kesler, a Stanford University clinical neuropsychologist who led the research. The new study suggests that cognitive training could be one possible avenue for helping to improve cognitive function in breast cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy, she says. The results may not convince everyone. One of the … Continue reading →

The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers. Brain calisthenics: A Lumosity user plays an online game. Cancer survivors sometimes suffer from a condition known as chemo foga cognitive impairment caused by repeated chemotherapy. A study hints at a controversial idea: that brain-training software might help lift this cognitive cloud. Various studies have concluded that cognitive training can improve brain function in both healthy people and those with medical conditions, but the broader applicability of these results remains controversial in the field. In a study published in the journal Clinical Breast Cancer, investigators report that those who used a brain-training program for 12 weeks were more cognitively flexible, more verbally fluent, and faster-thinking than survivors who did not train. Patients treated with chemotherapy show changes in brain structure and function in line with diffuse brain injury, and they often report long-term cognitive effects, says Shelli Kesler, a Stanford University clinical neuropsychologist who led the research. The new study suggests that cognitive training could be one possible avenue for helping to improve cognitive function in breast cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy, she says. The results may not convince everyone. One of the … Continue reading →

Public release date: 15-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Craig J. Bryan craig.bryan@utah.edu 801-587-7978 University of Utah People in the military who suffer more than one mild traumatic brain injury face a significantly higher risk of suicide, according to research by the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah. A survey of 161 military personnel who were stationed in Iraq and evaluated for a possible traumatic brain injury also known as TBI showed that the risk for suicidal thoughts or behaviors increased not only in the short term, as measured during the past 12 months, but during the individual's lifetime. The risk of suicidal thoughts increased significantly with the number of TBIs, even when controlling for other psychological factors, the researchers say in a paper published online Wednesday, May 15 in JAMA Psychiatry, a specialty journal of the American Medical Association. "Up to now, no one has been able to say if multiple TBIs, which are common among combat veterans, are associated with higher suicide risk or not," says the study's lead author, Craig J. Bryan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah and associate director of the National Center for Veterans Studies. … Continue reading →

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Topics: brain cancer, cancer council queensland, tumour JORDAN Carroll faces a lifetime of medication, serious side effects, and the certain knowledge that he will eventually be blind - and he's still only 16 years old. The Brisbane teenager has been battling a brain tumour since he was 11 - cheating death on more than one occasion. The tumour has taken his eyesight, his memory and his childhood. And there's very little doctors can do for him. Jordan's mum, Marie, has watched him endure a long and painful process of trial and error as his doctors tried chemotherapy, brain surgery, and even a trial drug in a bid to shrink his tumour. There are few effective treatments for brain tumours like Jordan's, which is why Marie is calling on Queenslanders to donate to Cancer Council Queensland's Tax Appeal - and give research into brain tumours a substantial boost. Marie said the nightmare began when Jordan complained of a terrible headache one night. "Within minutes, he was yelling with pain and had started to throw up, so we decided to take him to hospital," she said. "On the way, he stopped and was very quiet - we were close to going home … Continue reading →