Monday, October 31, 2005

Brain Injury literature

I have noticed an add on my blog that has some useful information for any brain injury survivor. The link is TBI Brain Injury Rehab. I'm not sure how long the ad will be posted, so I will include the link in this posting:

http://www.nrio.com/

I do not know this organization, so cannot comment on how effective it is. However, if you click on "resources", you will find some great information.

Something that is always a complicating factor with brain injuries is the effect on personality and cognitive abilities. Most people know that psychiatric conditions can have an impact on both these areas.

As a survivors advocate, it is important to determine whether the change is a brain injury - organic and not likely to improve...or a psychiatric condition that may improve with treatment. This allows us to get the best treatment for our client to restore his or her life. Further, if the change is psychiatric, we need to determine whether the trauma was a "material contributing factor" in the onset of the condition. That is essentially a legalism for "Was the the accident a serious factor causing the condition.

If this is a topic that interests you, then I encourage my readers...if there are any, to look at the website.

1 Comments:

At 4:09 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Very informative post! The brain is one of the most delicate organs of the human body and as such, it can be incredibly vulnerable to serious damage in the event of a head injury. Depending on the injuries sustained, the resulting damage can affect one or many regions of the brain with 5% of cases being classed as a moderate form of injury and 10% as severe.
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