Category: Traumatic Brain Injury

What is a Cerebrospinal Fluid? Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. CSF supplies nutrients to the brain and spinal cord and also provides cushioning for the brain inside the skull. Thin layers of tissue m ...

Managing Relationships after a TBI Sustaining a traumatic brain injury can come with many medical complications that can have a significant impact on you and your loved ones. Not only do the stresses of healing from your injury take a toll on everyda ...

One of the most catastrophic injuries that a person can sustain is a traumatic brain injury. These can be classified as either mild or severe, but when someone is seriously harmed, there are often life-long effects that come along with it. Understand ...

The frontal lobe of the brain sits just above the eyes as is considered our emotional control center and home to our personality. Due to its location, it is very susceptible to traumatic brain injury (TBI) in car, bus or truck accidents, football or ...

Sadly, 29 year-old Canadian freestyle skier, Sarah Burke died yesterday due to complications from a vertebral artery tear or dissection which led to severe bleeding on the brain and causing her to go into cardiac arrest. She was injured during a trai ...

As a proud parent, you are watching your son play during a high school football game. With 3 minutes left to go in the game, the quarterback throws him the ball and he catches it. As always, he takes off down the field running past the 30 yard line, ...

More traumatic brain injuries or TBI’s. As soon as I hear that the Philadelphia Eagles are playing their first pre-season football game, I think fall, cooler days, colorful leaves on the ground, and sadly, head injuries. As with any sport ...

As the Memorial Day holiday and official opening of the summer season is upon us, how can we not think about how enjoyable it will be to relax on a hot summer’s day in a swimming pool? I know I am already thinking about it. Many swimmers and pool m ...

On Thursday, a federal jury awarded a Virginia man $212 million after he claimed that the Botox injections he was receiving for hand tremors and writer’s cramp left him brain-damaged and disabled. It is thought that the jury’s decision ...