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The Crisis over the Quality of Brain Injury Care (1)
We can be grateful for media attention, because it has finally taken brain injury rehab out of the closet. Until recently, the brain injury industry was unknown to the general public. Now in the glare of publicity, the bigger issues are beginning to hit the papers. Yesterday’s USA Today featured an article discussing our problems [...]
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Helping You Family Member to Recover from a Head Injury (1)
INTRODUCTION This guidebook is the companion to Self-Therapy for Head Injury: Teaching Yourself to Prevent Head-Injured Moments. It instructs family members, friends, and other supporters in how to assist the survivor of a severe head injury in doing self-therapy. Each issue is introduced in a chapter in the self-therapy guide. The recovery strategies are also [...]
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HOW TO START YOUR OWN GIVEBACK CHAPTER (1)
1. Why have meetings if the information is posted on the Web? GiveBack offers everyone a reference library on recovery techniques, but it does more for the towns with GiveBack chapters. GiveBack chapters create a community of their own filled with people who understand what you have gone through. In GiveBack meetings, members have their [...]
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Full Independence in the Home after TBI (2)
Survivors with very severe injuries cannot be left alone at home because their judgment is so impaired that they cannot stay safe without some distant supervision. Survivors with mild head injuries generally have no trouble being home alone, or managing their own homes. In between these two extremes are people who leave the hospital unready [...]
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