Once traumatic brain injury patients have been discharged from general hospitals and rehabilitation treatment centers, they can usually move back home. Family and friends can help ease this transition by making sure all doctor-recommended equipment and supplies have been ordered and delivered before the patient arrives home.. Although traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can inflict different [...]

After suffering a traumatic brain injury, many of us think we would keep pursuing every form of rehabilitative therapy offered to us, as long as we thought we might improve further. Yet once confronted with various setbacks and made aware of research statistics that claim we aren’t likely to regain many more physical and cognitive [...]

Once a traumatic brain injury patient’s condition has been stabilized, a special nutritional plan must be created and put into immediate effect. According to New York neurosurgeon Robert Hartl, M.D. and other experts, there seems to be a direct relationship between long-term survival of TBI patients and early nutritional intervention. In fact, a six-year, New [...]

There are many different types of traumatic brain injuries. If you’ve ever fallen and hit your head on the sidewalk or been in a serious car accident that made you hit your head on the windshield or a door frame, you may have suffered a concussion. Athletes who play football and other contact sports suffer [...]

Once your doctor says, “You’ve suffered a traumatic brain injury,” you may think your life has ended. Fortunately, many people who survive the initial injury and the early treatment stages stand an excellent chance of regaining some of the functional skills they may have lost. Each injured person’s future depends upon: (1) the exact parts [...]

Many traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) develop as the result of car accidents, sporting mishaps and major falls. Chances for full recovery often depend on whether the person develops further complications such as swelling (edema) of the brain. Doctors will first pursue orthodox practices to relieve the sudden, added pressure within the brain. One approach involves [...]

Before you even can begin to recover from brain injury, the doctors should observe you and decide the best treatment strategy that you can use. Not all symptoms caused by a brain injury will be experienced by all patients. Some patients have to deal with less issues than others whereas others have to deal with [...]

If you or a member of your family has been physically incapacitated with a brain injury through no fault of yours, you should seek compensation immediately. At the very least the person or persons responsible should help pay for your medical and rehabilitative expenses. To assess your situation and help you determine if you have [...]

When a person suffers from a brain injury, the damage can be very extensive. As such, depression is expected because suddenly one’s lifestyle changes has changed and it suddenly becomes difficult for them to physically do the things that they normally did and this alone, is very upsetting indeed. Simply telling them to cheer up [...]

A prognosis will give you a fair indication of what to expect after a medical disaster or problem. However, you cannot expect the doctors to say with finality exactly what will happen, because often the body has a way of answering that on its own. For instance, most physicians offering brain injuries prognosis stay on [...]