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http://www.biawaspokane.org
Brain Injury Association of Washington Spokane Chapter
http://www.tbiwa.org
Eastern Washington TBI survivor Network
Survive Thrive and ALIVE
Documentary Film: Understanding Traumatic Brain
Injury
This 29-minute video, introduced by
General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), offers an introduction to TBI, a health
issue affecting at least 1.4 million Americans each year. It features the
recovery journeys of several service personnel and their families. (this is on
the DVBIC web site)
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Ok family's here is a link to how it really is with a TBI
survivor I know it will be the hardest things a family can do is to be
there, your TBI survivor will push you away, say things they really
don't mean, there recovery depends on you, if you abandon them their
chance of making it out of the prison this devastating injury creates.
The statistics are frightening click the link below.
http://tbirecovery.org/Intro.html
 Brain Injury Information for Spokane
Washington
If you are going through and
trying to recover from a brain injury in Spokane, you have a long road ahead of
you. There is very little help and supports available. It has become
my personal mission to seek out any help, help develop help. This means
educating Doctors and medical professionals. How fair is that you are sick
and you have to create your own help. And if your anything like me which
studies show you are. The lack of education and information has scared off
every one you know and care about. You are not alone, there are others
suffering from this new person, with new parts of the brain. Now here is
the challenge you have to accept and realize that its not totally a bad thing,
to remold your emotions into what God has chosen. I look at this new me as
a gift from God, and I am trying to create a better me, a me who realizes what
truly is important in life. And pray I have learned from my mistakes and
can be this gentle person for Christ, I will share what resources are available
and you can email me and I will share anything I know about the journey you are
embarking on.
Click image for interactive map of the brain
which will open in it's own window
below is the
brain injury association of Spokane Washington
http://www.biawaspokane.org
Spokane's only TBI resource
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TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SURVIVAL GUIDE
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Chat
here with
survivors and families dealing with TBI
http://www.braininjurychat.org/tbichat.htm
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also called acquired brain injury
or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain.
TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an
object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. Symptoms of a TBI can be
mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain.
A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of
consciousness for a few seconds or minutes. Other symptoms of mild TBI include
headache, confusion, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision or tired eyes,
ringing in the ears, bad taste in the mouth, fatigue or lethargy, a change in
sleep patterns, behavioral or mood changes, and trouble with memory,
concentration, attention, or thinking. A person with a moderate or severe TBI
may show these same symptoms, but may also have a headache that gets worse or
does not go away, repeated vomiting or nausea, convulsions or seizures, an
inability to awaken from sleep, dilation of one or both pupils of the eyes,
slurred speech, weakness or numbness in the extremities, loss of coordination,
and increased confusion, restlessness, or agitation.
Is there any treatment?
Anyone with signs of moderate
or severe TBI should receive medical attention as soon as possible. Because
little can be done to reverse the initial brain damage caused by trauma, medical
personnel try to stabilize an individual with TBI and focus on preventing
further injury. Primary concerns include insuring proper oxygen supply to the
brain and the rest of the body, maintaining adequate blood flow, and controlling
blood pressure. Imaging tests help in determining the diagnosis and prognosis of
a TBI patient. Patients with mild to moderate injuries may receive skull and
neck X-rays to check for bone fractures or spinal instability. For moderate to
severe cases, the imaging test is a computed tomography (CT) scan.
Moderately to severely injured patients receive rehabilitation that involves
individually tailored treatment programs in the areas of physical therapy,
occupational therapy, speech/language therapy, physiatry (physical medicine),
psychology/psychiatry, and social support.
What is the prognosis?
Approximately half of severely
head-injured patients will need surgery to remove or repair hematomas (ruptured
blood vessels) or contusions (bruised brain tissue). Disabilities resulting from
a TBI depend upon the severity of the injury, the location of the injury, and
the age and general health of the individual. Some common disabilities include
problems with cognition (thinking, memory, and reasoning), sensory processing
(sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), communication (expression and
understanding), and behavior or mental health (depression, anxiety, personality
changes, aggression, acting out, and social inappropriateness). More serious
head injuries may result in stupor, an unresponsive state, but one in which an
individual can be aroused briefly by a strong stimulus, such as sharp pain;
coma, a state in which an individual is totally unconscious, unresponsive,
unaware, and unarousable; vegetative state, in which an individual is
unconscious and unaware of his or her surroundings, but continues to have a
sleep-wake cycle and periods of alertness; and a persistent vegetative state
(PVS), in which an individual stays in a vegetative state for more than a month.
What research is being done?
The National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) conducts TBI research in its
laboratories at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and also supports TBI
research through grants to major medical institutions across the country. This
research involves studies in the laboratory and in clinical settings to better
understand TBI and the biological mechanisms underlying damage to the brain.
This research will allow scientists to develop strategies and interventions to
limit the primary and secondary brain damage that occurs within days of a head
trauma, and to devise therapies to treat brain injury and improve long-term
recovery of function.
More information about
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research is available at
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/research/tbi/index.htm
http://biausa.org/BIAUSA.ORG/word.files.to.pdf/good.pdfs/NBBICannouncement2.pdf
Consequences of a Traumatic Brain
Injury
Below is your first step
the Brain Injury Association of Washington, I have started to attend their
board meetings to get involved in actively seeking real supports for a real
injury, that seems to slip through the cracks, but you are not alone. By
contacting the Brain Injury Association of Washington they have a TBI tool kit
to help train your doctors. It is produced by the Centers for Disease
Control "CDC" They have a office here in Spokane which I hope to be involved in
to learn what is out there for us.
The contact information is
Washington Brain Injury
Association
607 S. Government Way
509-340-0786 ask for Gloria or Craig
http://www.biawaspokane.org
their office hours are
Monday through Thursday 10:AM to 3:PM
http://www.biawa.org
Below
is an excellent handout to share with your doctor with the TBI Tool Kit
http://www1.va.gov/environagents/docs/TBI-handout-physicians.pdf
Next
there is a TBI support group on the second Wednesday of each month at St. Lukes
Rehab room #200 it is from 7PM - 9PM
http://biawa.org/support.htm
Here next
is the Brain Injury of Association of America's info they have some information
available but it is scarce too, but the more you can learn about what's going on
the sooner you might be able to live life again.
http://biausa.org/
At the
last board meeting which I attended I had the honor of meeting and talking with
Kathy J. Ward the U.N. ambassador of peace and she is inspiring and working with
us with us TBI survivors to help
make a difference she has some self help tools on her web site which I have
listed below everyone is different and any tools that you can make work for you
is good.
http://www.kathyjward.com/KJW
http://www.kathyjward.com/blog
Here below is a 24 hour free TBI
chat room so you can chat with others going through this devastating injury that
everyone sees but no one can understand it is as real and even more serious than
any injury you could ever get. In the beginning months they were all that
would talk with me, everyone else thought I was crazy realizing this was a real
injury. I so tried to act like it was not there, that made me tired, a
tired that sleep could not fix. Till eventually I would crash because you
cannot be what everyone thinks you should be for to long.
http://www.braininjurychat.org/tbichat.htm
TBI
recovery Fact Sheet
Why so many TBI survivors Die years after there
injury but seemed healthy
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Next you need to have some counseling by someone who truly
knows what is going on with a MTBI survivor, make sure they know about TBI the
damage that it can cause dealing with someone who don't is un-thinkable.
You are going to need to talk a lot of these thoughts that have just been mixed
up real good. You have to purge each one and restore them in your brain,
now this is a very hard process and extremely emotional, all you can do is the
best you can. And don't blame other people for not understanding it, up
till now there has been no one there to help families understand it. Keep
fighting and good luck....
http://biausa.org/
http://www.headinjury.com/nwresources.htm
http://www.discoverhiddensecrets.com/TBIresources.html
Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research
http://www.neurologychannel.com/tbi/treatment.shtml
http://brainsinjury.com/
http://www.braintrauma.org/
http://www.brain-injury-resource.com/treatment-options.htm?c=gawbi
Click Here for the Aging with Brain Injury presentation by Audrey Nelson and Dr.
Tina Trudel
(286k Powerpoint Presentation)
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The Defense and
Veterans Brain Injury Center's (DVBIC)
documentary, Understanding Traumatic
Brain Injury, is now available for
viewing on our website at
http://dvbic.org/cms.php?p=Education.
Understanding
Traumatic Brain Injury is a 29-minute
program, introduced by General Colin L.
Powell, USA (Ret). It offers an
introduction to traumatic brain injury,
a health issue affecting at least 1.4
million Americans each year. It features
the recovery journeys of several service
personnel and their families.
Viewers can also visit
http://www.DVBIC.org
and click on the Education tab at the
top of the home page.
Two related products
are also available on the same page at
our website:
(1) Fact sheet on traumatic brain injury
(TBI) awareness and prevention, and
(2) Documentary User's Guide for
organizations that plan to use this
documentary as part of their educational
efforts in 2007. See the website for
ordering details.
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Acquired Brain Injury Video: Teens Talking to
Teens. The actual DVD is a high-quality,
full-screen video featuring candid discussions
with three teens. Each teen discusses the
challenges of living with and succeeding with
their brain injuries.
http://videos.emule.com/videos/tbi/
This
is a serious of 900 videos about tbi I hope
these provide some good information
CEU Course
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Washington University held on
May 22, 2007 are now available
for download...
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Here are some interesting
videos
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Walking with the
Pediatric Lokomat
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Pediatric Lokomat® Videos -
Traumatic brain injury
As with my Dad, I bought into or
transferred my belief system that told
me God could not really love, accept or
approve of me unless I measured up to
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Jill Marquis.
Living with a brain injury
BBC Guernsey's
Kay Langlois recently spoke to local
woman Jill Marquis and found out
what it's like living in Guernsey
with a severe brain injury.
Guernsey woman Jill Marquis'
life changed beyond all belief
one night in December 2006. She
slipped and fell on decking in
the garden, and banged her head.
Headway Guernsey's
logo
Initially she had no idea
how serious the fall had
been, and it was some time
before she was aware of the
full extent of the brain
injury she'd suffered.
Jill is still on the slow
road to recovery with the help
of neuro-physiotherapist Kitty
Rabey, and the Charity Headway
Guernsey, which offers support
to people with a brain injury,
and to their families.
In the mid-morning show on
Monday 25 February 2008 Kay
Langlois spoke to Shelaine Green
from Headway, Kitty Rabey and
Jill Marquis. Jill explained to
Kay how the accident happened...
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What does one look for
in a rehabilitation
center following a
traumatic brain injury?
This video explains how
to choose a rehab
center, and details the
treatment one should
expect in a rehab
hospital. The
information is provided
by Joanne Finnegan, MSA,
CTRS, who is CEO of
ReMed Recovery Care
Centers, and a board
member of the Commission
on Accreditation of
Rehabilitation
Facilities.
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In this video, David
Lenrow, M.D., walks
viewers through the
structure of the brain
anatomy, and what
functions are controlled
by the different parts
of the brain. Dr. Lenrow
is on the staff of the
Hospital of the
University of
Pennsylvania and a
faculty member of the
University of
Pennsylvania Medical
School.
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M.D.
This video, which is
an interview with
David Lenrow, M.D.,
explains the primary
job of the brain,
and how it affects
and controls
different parts of
the body. Dr. Lenrow
is on staff at the
Hospital of the
University of
Pennsylvania and is
a faculty member of
the University of
Pennsylvania Medical
School.
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This video, an
interview with David
Lenrow, M.D.,
explains the effects
of a TBI injury, and
points out the
differences of the
various categories
of traumatic brain
injury - mild,
moderate and severe.
Dr. Lenrow, who is
on staff at the
Hospital of the
University of
Pennsylvania and a
faculty member of
the University of
Pennsylvania Medical
School, point out
that even a "mild"
TBI can adversely
affect the
day-to-day
functioning of a
person
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M.D.
In this video, David
Lenrow, M.D.,
explains how and
when a traumatic
brain injury is
diagnosed and
treated. Dr. Lenrow,
who is on staff at
the Hospital of the
University of
Pennsylvania and a
faculty member of
the University of
Pennsylvania Medical
School, also
explains why it is
sometimes difficult
to diagnose a
traumatic brain
injury.
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This video, an
interview with
Joanne Finnegan,
MSA, CTRS, points
out the role of
family members in
the treatment and
recovery of a
patient with TBI.
Finnegan is CEO of
ReMed Recovery Care
Centers, and a board
member of the
Commission on
Accreditation of
Rehabilitation
Facilities (CARF).
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This video,
featuring an
interview with
Joanne Finnegan,
MSA, CTRS, outines
what information a
family will need
from the time a
loved one is
diagnosed with a
traumatic brain
injury (TBI) to when
the patient is
discharged. Finnegan
is CEO of ReMed
Recovery Care
Centers, and a board
member of the
Commission on
Accreditation of
Rehabilitation
Facilities.
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M.D.
In this video, David
Lenrow, M.D., talks
about the physical
aspects of a
traumatic brain
injury. Dr. Lenrow,
who is on staff of
the Hospital of the
University of
Pennsylvania and a
faculty member of
the University of
Pennsylvania Medical
School, explains the
differences between
penetrating and
closed head
injuries.
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latest treatments for Traumatic Brain Injuries
(TBI). These videos are important assets for TBI
patients and discharge planners, with
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education to: (1) improve care
for TBI patients, (2) give
support to families, and (3)
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TBI
Education Series available for viewing or free
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Beginning in
the fall of 2004, the UW TBI Model System has
cosponsored a video conference TBI Education
Series that has presented nationally recognized
speakers covering topics on traumatic brain
injury research, education and prevention. The
events were open to anyone with an interest in
the treatment and care of TBI survivors, and
included a question and answer session following
each presentation. Community-based providers,
state agency personnel, family members, and the
general public who work with or have an interest
in traumatic brain injuries were encouraged to
attend. The UW TBIMS co-sponsored this series in
cooperation with the Department of Social Health
Services, Aging & Disabilities Service
Administration, Lead Agency-Washington State
Traumatic Brain Injury Grant. (HRSA Grant #
H21-MC000620200). Recording of these
presentations can now be viewed or downloaded
through the
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Pediatric TBI:
Transitions to School and Community-
This session is
directed at teachers, social workers and other
social service providers as well as the families
of TBI patients. We provide information about
pediatric TBI and recovery and accessing
community and school resources. The session will
pay particular attention to the transition of
pediatric TBI patients from hospital to school
and from school to the community.
Andrea Dorsch,
PhD: Children’s Hospital and Regional
Medical Center, Seattle
Cinda Johnson, Ed.D., Seattle University
How to Cope With
the Financial Aftermath of TBI-
This session is
directed at individuals with TBI & families. A
panel of speakers will discuss practical ideas
to manage the financial effects of TBI on the
individual and family and how to plan for the
rest of life.
Susan Scully,
MSW, Harborview Medical Center
Robert Fraser, PhD: TBIMS Co-Investigator
Bud & Joy Carlisle: TBIMS Advisory Board
Members/TBI Survivors
David Foster-Koth: Senior Trust Advisor, Wells
Fargo
Persisting
Post-Concussion Syndrome-
This session is
directed at family practitioners, physiatrists,
neurologists, physician assistants,
psychologists, and other health care
professionals. An interdisciplinary panel
explores topics such as diagnosis of concussion,
evaluation and treatment of headache after head
injury, the role of neuropsychological
examination in treatment & indications for
therapy, and support services during transition
back to work.
Kathleen Bell,
MD Physiatrist
Mary Pepping, PhD, Neuropsychologist
Dot Salogga, RPT
Julie Brunnings, Speech Therapist
Karen Ball, Vocational Counselor
Community Resources for
TBI: The Present and the Possible-
This session is
directed at case managers, social workers and
other social service providers. We will
introduce the TBI Toolkit designed to help
professionals provide support to persons with
TBI and family members by providing information
about TBI, recovery and accessing resources. The
second part of the session will examine a
prototype of how an intensive day program for
younger adults was developed from the senior
services community. Discussion and state-wide
brainstorming about present resources and future
possibilities will follow.
Nora Gibson,
Executive Director ElderHealth
Marti Spicer, Director, Heads Up Program,
ElderHealth
Susan McDonough, MSSW, Aging & Disability
Services Administration-DSHS
Brain Injury
Basics: How Brain Functions Are Affected
&
Psychiatric Disorders & TBI: Diagnosis &
Treatment Options
Mary Pepping, Ph.D, Associate Professor,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program,
University of Washington Medical Center
Jesse Fann,
M.D., MPH. Assistant Professor,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry
Understanding &
Managing Behavioral Problems in TBI
&
Pragmatics of Communication & TBI
Myron Goldberg,
Ph.D.,
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Julie Brunings,
MS, CCC &
Juli Rosenzweig MS. CCC
Speech Pathologists,
University of Washington Medical Center
http://www.braininjurymn.org/education/family.cfm
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Brain
Anatomy and Function
Types of Brain Injury
There are two broad
classifications of traumatic brain
injury: open and closed. Open
head injury occurs when the
skull is penetrated by a sharp
instrument (such as a knife) or an
explosive missile (such as a bullet
or shell fragments). In penetrating
head injuries, tissue damage will be
found at the point of penetration
and surrounding the path of the
intruding object. Consequences of an
open head injury can be swelling,
lacerations from skull fragments,
and vulnerability to infection and
further injury.
Closed head injury is
primarily caused by a blunt impact
or blow to the head without
penetrating the skull. The most
common form of brain damage is
caused by closed head injury.
Consequences of a closed head injury
can be swelling, increased
intercranial pressure, and tissue
compression.
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Library.
Here, you can view our video
programs designed to keep you informed
about the latest treatments for
Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). These
videos are important assets for TBI
patients and discharge planners, with
information on all aspects of TBI.
Especially interesting to patients
and the families of TBI victims are the
videos about choosing a rehabilitation
center and the symptoms of TBI from
medical professionals.
The information provided on these
videos is for educational purposes only
and is not intended in any way to be a
substitute for professional medical
advice. This is not and does not
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