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Couldn't Happen to Me: A Life Changed by Paralysis and Brain Injury

"This is not the path I chose. But I have to make the best of it."

What Does It Mean to Survive?

"Life and living is the very definition of surviving. It is what the living do. Definitions are meant to change. Able to change. For the brain injured, begging to change. What does it mean to you to have survived?"

Medications

Medications are substances recommended by a doctor to help you deal with symptoms of PTSD or TBI or both.

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Is There a Simple Solution to a Complicated Problem?

Though solutions come in unexpected places, I never expected my local Target store to hold to key to freedom from one of my biggest challenges since my brain injury – living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Healing Your Marriage After Brain Injury

Marriage issues post-TBI? Read these experiences of others and take a quiz.

Fact Sheet on Computer Access

Learn what can help from computer hardware and software that can speak for non-verbal people to programs to assist those with learning disabilities to more easily perform cognitive activities.

The Importance of Sleep after Brain Injury

It’s time to put a label on one of my biggest fears as a brain injury survivor: Backsliding. Over the last couple of months, I began to fear that this was happening to me until another survivor shared with me that lack of sleep exacerbated brain injury symptoms. And in two ticks of a clock, the lightbulb went on over my head.

Celebrating Her Loving, Wild, Red-Headed Boy

"I’d burst through the ICU doors like one of Charlie’s Angels; I was there to do my job, to do anything to help Mark get better.”

Goal Setting and Coordination of Care: Tone Management in Brain Injury

Learn about the recent advances in treating and managing brain injury-related spasticity.

Communicating a Way Forward

Learn why caregiver Abby Maslin calls aphasia "the unexpected homewrecker," and what she did to help.

Civilian TBI: The Other Story

Learn why speech-language therapy is crucial after TBI and why insurance companies are sometimes reluctant to pay.

Facts About Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States After Severe Brain Injury

Facts About the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States After Severe Brain Injury

Brain injury can cause a wide range of disturbances of consciousness. Learn more.

Futile Comparisons

As a caregiver for her husband who sustained a TBI, Rosemary learned that comparisons don’t serve us, they only make us bitter.

Two Powerful New Brain Injury Books

As a caregiver, wife, and mother, I have found great solace in sharing my story. I have also learned a great deal from reading first-hand experiences of people who have survived a TBI. I recently read two new books about brain injury that I'd like to share. Both stories add new insight into the way we experience traumatic brain injury in our own lives.

Visual Function in Patients of a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center: A Descriptive Study

Learn more about the visual problems associated with polytrauma injury.

Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System

Learn about the miracle of this spongy, three-pound mass of fatty tissue we call the brain.

I Wanted My Brain Back

What happens when you’re a PhD economist and you suddenly can’t remember things or think straight?

Leaning into Loss After Brain Injury

David and his wife smiling seated at a restaurant

Three of my four sons abruptly walked out of my life with no explanation and no communication. I was being ghosted long before that term even existed. It was, by far, the most painful part of my journey.

Climbing Back: A Family’s Journey Through Brain Injury

Elise Rosenhaupt discovers that her life before her son Martin’s devastating traumatic brain injury has prepared her for helping him through his rehabilitation and recovery.

Helping Families Navigate the School System to Obtain Appropriate Services After Brain Injury

Helping Families Navigate the School System to Obtain Appropriate Services after Acquired Brain Injury

Head Injury Increase in Military Highlights Limited Treatment Options: New Research Seeks Answers

War and trauma have always gone hand in hand.

The Student with a Brain Injury: Achieving Goals for Higher Education

Finding the right help to navigate through college and beyond.

Beautiful Truth

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to share with a group of caregivers and survivors at a rehab. From the moment they entered the gym, I sensed their exceptional spirits. This was not surprising, as I have discovered the brain injury community to be comprised of the finest people you will ever encounter.