Archive for the ‘Children Brain Injury’ Category

Can you Survive a Ruptured Brain Aneurysm? Part 3of3

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE SURGERY? Physical and mental damage usually occurs whether the ruptured brain aneurysm is repaired with coils or clips. The effects are very similar to what a stroke victim suffers. Collateral damage, others that are affected, will take its toll. They have to adjust to the fact that the person [...]

Payment Options for the Traumatically Brain Injured – Part II

As we discussed last time, once the acute care period is over and the patient is stabilized, the resources available to the patient can substantially impact treatment and recovery. In a perfect world, every patient would have unlimited access to the best resources available to meet their needs. Ours unfortunately is not a perfect world. [...]

Cerebral Palsy and Other Brain Dysfunctions: – Language and Communication Development

  Parents understandably want their child not only to be able to understand them, but to be able to communicate with them too. Interaction is fundamental to humanity, – in a way I think it defines who and what we are. We are the only species which uses the symbolism of language and when a [...]

Stress In Children Due To Brain Injury

Stress and children ought to be poles apart. Children have double capacity to create and remove stress among the elders, by their rants and tantrums. Let us assume for a while that children do not have serious stress causing habits like smoking and drinking. As for problems related to poverty the perspective of children is [...]

Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi) And Children

Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) can occur at any age, but http://www.ask4sam.net/brain-injuries-children.html”> TBI in childrenseems especially devastating because of the loss of human potential. Estimates show that more than one million childhood brain injuries occur each year with more than 100,000 requiring hospitalization. When your child suffers from a traumatic brain injury because of a defective [...]

Of Motorcycles, Traumatic Brain Injury, Natasha Richardson, and My Younger Brother

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Accident Lawyer) One New Years Eve some 20 years ago my younger brother was walking around Montreal when he slipped and fell on ice, hitting his head. A stubborn sort, my brother refused medical attention, until [...]

Obstetrical Malpractice Leading to Brain Injuries

For new parents, the birth and development of their child is a time of joy. When your child suffers from brain injuries or other serious birth defects, however, that joy can be tempered with fear, concern, and worry. How do birth injuries occur? Most birth defects occur naturally through no fault of the obstetrician [...]

Brain Injuries And Motivation

     During the first year after my partner sustained his brain injury, life was a roller coaster ride.  By the end of that first year though, his confused periods became fewer, his moods improved little by little and I gradually came to realize that he had been left with several deficits.      A brain injury [...]

Brain Injuries – Anger, Frustration and Bumps In The Road

When living with someone who has sustained a traumatic brain injury, there will no doubt always be some anger, frustration, irritability and bumps in the road when things don’t go as expected, as wanted or take longer than anticipated. Things happen to all of us and when they do we learn, as we mature, to [...]

Brain Injuries and Lack of Empathy

Damage to the frontal lobe can affect feelings of not only empathy but also of lack of compassion.  And in most cases there are few feelings of guilt as a result of their behavior.  This deficit can alter decisions that most likely would have been handled very differently pre-injury. My partner often displays these deficits [...]