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What Is A Brain Injury?

How Many People Have TBI?

What Are The Causes Of Brain Injury?

What Are The Types Of Brain Injury?

What Are Possible Impairments?

Commonly Asked Questions

Is There Any Treatment?

What Is The Prognosis?

What Research Is Being Done?

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What Are Possible Impairments?

Cognitive: short and long term memory deficits,
slowness of thinking; difficulty maintaining attention
and concentration; impairments of perception,
communication, reading and writing skills; reasoning,
problem solving, planning, sequencing and judgment.

Physical: speech, vision, hearing, and other sensory
impairments, headaches, lack of coordination, muscle
spasticity, paralysis on one or both sides and seizure
disorders. Many persons with brain injuries appear to
be recovered physically but may experience problems
with fine motor control.

Psycho-Social, Behavioral/Emotional: Fatigue, mood
swings, denial, self-centeredness, anxiety, depression,
lowered self-esteem, sexual dysfunction, restlessness,
lack of motivation, inability to self-monitor, difficulty
with emotional control, inability to cope, agitation,
excessive laughing or crying and difficulty in relating to
others. After a brain injury, it is important to monitor
the individual’s emotional status.

Remember . . . As every person is different, so is
every injury, and the person’s ability to recover
from the injury.