Unfortunately there is no current "cure" for brain injury. There are many types of brain injury, open head, closed head, anoxic, strokes, acquired, etc. There are a number of different treatments available to help with brain injury from speech pathology to help with speaking, surgery to help with immediate bleeds and hematomas. The range of treatment should be led by either your primary care physician or a physiatrist who will help find the best treatments availble to help someone with a brain injury regain some of the skills or functions they may have lost due to the injury.
Unfortunately there is no current "cure" for brain injury. There are many types of brain injury, open head, closed head, anoxic, strokes, acquired, etc. There are a number of different treatments available to help with brain injury from speech pathology to help with speaking, surgery to help with immediate bleeds and hematomas. The range of treatment should be led by either your primary care physician or a physiatrist who will help find the best treatments availble to help someone with a brain injury regain some of the skills or functions they may have lost due to the injury.
When someone suffers from a head injury it is vital to get a injury attorney. You can go to the website www.esteybomberger.com/brain_injury.html to find out more information about brain injury attorneys and what they can do to help.
Depends on what type of brain injury, and what the effects are, where and how it occured. The law is put into action to help defend the family or the person injured.
i cant help you there but go onto the internet and type in nhs symtoms of a brain injury. i am guesiing you will forget things and have a bad headache sorry if this is no help rebecca kensington
A hypoxic ischemic brain injury can occur if an infant has an oxygen deficiency before, during, or after birth. Pomegranate juice is high in polyphenols, which have shown to help reduce the amount of damage caused by hypoxic ischemic injury.
Taking drugs with a brain injury is not a good idea. However, people who have sustained a brain injury will often turn to drugs to deal with the injury. Drugs like ecstasy can be especially troublesome because of the way they interact with the pathways and connections inside your brain. It's a good idea to find help. http://www.brainline.org/landing_pages/categories/substanceabuse.html has a ton of articles on the effects or drug use on brain injuries.
There are various federal programs in place to help those with traumatic brain injury. These include Social Security and assistance from the state department of rehabilitation. brainandspinalcord.org has information on this and other topics relating to brain and spinal cord damage. The following link contains more info on federal programs: http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/coping-traumatic-brain-injury/federal-programs-tbi/index.html
A good resource to use to find a lawyer for a traumatic brain jury is the Attorney Help Line. You can call the help line at 1-886-882-7246. The help line is free and can be contacted 7 days a week.
Yes. If the injury is a mild one, this is very possible.
While no two people will be the same, learning the basics about traumatic brain injuries will help you understand and relate to your clients. Here is a link to an article going over the realities of TBI: http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/Coping-traumatic-brain-injury/index.html and another going over recovery-related aspects: http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/recovery-traumatic-brain-injury/index.html
Yes and no. The neurons, what we would call brain cells, do not regrow but the supporting glial cells can regrow. Recovery of functions after a traumatic brain injury generally are the result of forming new pathways within the brain around the damaged area.