Brain Injury / Head Injury
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Music Therapy In Response to Spinal Surgery or Traumatic Brain Injury
It has been over one year since the Tucson shooting spree that killed six people and injured twelve, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot wound to the left hemisphere of her brain,…
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Facet Joint Pain Following Cervical Hyperflexion-Hyperextension Trauma
Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD, in a recent narrative review published in Spine[1], summarized evidence which demonstrates that injuries to the cervical zygapophysial (also known as facet) joints are the primary source of pain following hyperflexion-hyperextension…
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New Law on Traumatic Brain Injury
On May 8, 2007, Governor Gregoire signed into law House Bill (HB) 2055 that created a new law focusing on assisting survivors of traumatic brain injury and their caregivers. The new law recognizes the struggles…
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Magnitude of the Problem
“ …People are uneducated about traumatic brain injury. They don’t recognize it when it happens to them or their loved ones, they don’t know the extent of the public health problem…. “ This is my…
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Traumatic Brain Injury and the Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
The possibility a traumatic brain/head injury with loss of consciousness presents a potential risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has now been studied. It had previously been suggested traumatic brain injury created a heightened risk…
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Traumatic Head Injury and Long Term Risk of Depression
Of particular concern to care providers evaluating and treating patients injured in auto accidents is the possibility of head injury. Most individuals who sustain a traumatic head injury diagnosed as a mild concussion will experience…
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A Better Assessment of Head Injury Symptoms Using Questionnaires
Complaints of post-concussion symptoms and head injury are common among populations of auto accident and other trauma victims, particularly during the acute phase of injury. Symptoms frequently involve reports of memory and attention deficit, headaches…
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PTSD, Automobile Collisions and Other Injury Causing Incidents
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a greatly misunderstood diagnosis frequently made with individuals who have been traumatized physically and emotionally. There is no doubt physical trauma caused by motor vehicle collisions, trip and falls, pedestrian…
