head injury

I found this resource and wanted to add it here, it's a wonderful website that has been developed to provide the information coaches, teachers, parents, students, administrators, doctors (perhaps) and other providers can benefit from related to brain injury in our young people. Naturally, this will also apply to brain injuries in older people as well.  So if you have a brain and it might be injured someday, or you're studying on behalf of your occupations that have to do with family, friends, patients, I strongly suggest you go to this website.  read more »

I'm going to set you up with the link for a really wonderful article in Life Extension's online magazine, and also bring parts of it to put underneath in order to show you what the article is 'about' in order to REALLY encourage you to venture there and read the whole thing.  ALSO, there are other topics in this forum related to brain injury so please navigate with the links above this topic's title and go 'up' to the forum and see the list.    read more »

Brain injuries and diseases, as well as 'normal aging' and 'aging in place' are a primary factor for the majority of the clients I work with as a 'functional advisor and consultant' and 'health navigator', or 'concierge of health information', as I have come to say.  I utilize Lumigrate as my primary source of information to guide people, as they might look around and tell others they know who will look around, and essentially find a 'core of information' to follow out to in the links of the experts who provide information.  read more »

Lynn Hellerstein had posted a link to a very nice overview piece about vision and different conditions identified as special needs, learning disability, head injury, etc.  The link is: www.pediastaff.com/blog/special-article-oculo-visual-problems-of-patients-with-special-needs-5368  read more »

After January 1, 2012, student athletes in Colorado sustaining a "head injury" (as they are commonly called, but ultimately is a 'brain injury' and we should be using THAT word to show the importance every time it's uttered) will finally have a fighting chance of a "concussion" (which is a physics word that the health industry adopoted, again, it undermines the importance of the BRAIN is INJURED) occurring during school activities not impacting the rest of their lives.  read more »