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Tag Archives: brain injury
Second Impact Syndrome
Amid the recent growing concern over concussions in youth, collegiate, and professional contact sports is a lesser known yet serious head injury: second impact syndrome or SIS occurs when an athlete suffers a blow to the head too soon after … Continue reading
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Tagged athletes, athletics, brain, brain injury, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concussion, cuncussions, education, head injury, injury, MLB, NBA, nfl, NHL, owusu, prevention, second impact syndrome, sis, sports, teddowusu, teddy, treatment
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3rd annual Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference: Building on the Legacy of Coma to Community!
The 3rd annual Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference: Building on the Legacy of Coma to Community is the updated continuation of the Coma to Community Conference hosted by Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from 1977 through 1995. The main … Continue reading
Concussion and Football
Coaches and players are more aware of the risks of brain injury, thanks in large part to the research of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). Dr. Nancy Chiaravalloti, director of the Northern New Jersey TBIMS was interviewed by … Continue reading
MSKTC anuncia nuevas fichas informativas en español
El Centro de los Sistemas Modelo acerca la Traducción del Conocimiento (MSKTC por sus siglas en inglés) ha anunciado la ampliación de su página Web para incluir fichas en español para los consumidores en relación con lesiones de la médula … Continue reading
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Tagged brain injury, Centro de los Sistemas Modelo acerca la Traducción del Conocimiento (MSKTC por sus siglas en inglés), discapacidades, empleo, enlaces, familias, LCT, lesión por quemadura, lesion cerebral traumatica, lesion de la medula espinal, lesiones cerebrales, lesiones cerebrales traumaticas, lesiones de la medula espinal, lesiones por quemadura, LME, minorias, Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), MSKTC, personas con discapacidades, SCI, Spanish, Spanish-language, TBI
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The Evolution of Head Safety Equipment
A revolutionary device that could save lives by alerting family and friends in case of a serious injury is now available. ICEdot, the world’s first “personal crash sensor” is a fourth-generation safety device that pairs helmet and smartphone and uses … Continue reading
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Tagged alert, android, app, bike, biking, blading, bluetooth, brain, brain injury, climbing, concussion, derby, firs responder, head, health, helmet, hiking, icedot, injury, iphone, monitor, motor, mountain, owusu, phone, riding, rock, roller, skating, sport, sports, technology, teddowusu, teddy, wireless
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Head Injuries in the NFL: a First-Hand Account
In the article “What It’s Like When an NFL Linebacker Nearly Knocks Your Head Off”, former Denver Broncos tight end Nate Jackson recalls—in alarming detail—his experience of being concussed and knocked unconscious during a game in the National Football League. … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, brain injury, brain trauma, concussion, football, head, head injury, head trauma, injury, jackson, NARIC, naricspotlight, nate, nfl, owusu, rehabilitation, sports, teddy
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Spring Extreme Sports for People with Disabilities
This past winter, we wrote about extreme sports for people with disabilities. Now that spring has sprung, we wanted to share some sports, extreme and otherwise, that people with disabilities are participating in. Here is a list of individual, team, … Continue reading
Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities: State of the Science Conference. Part II.
NARIC’s Bilingual Information/Media Specialist, Marta Garcia, attended this year’s Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities: State of the Science Conference held on March 1 and 2, 2012. During the conference, Ms. Garcia attended panel presentations, track sessions, and networking opportunities. There were … Continue reading
Cognitive Function Levels after Brain Injury
The Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center recently published an online Spanish-language guide for families who have a family member with a brain injury. This guide describes the Rancho Levels of Cognitive Function, a scale developed by researchers to describe … Continue reading
Sensory Stimulation and Snoezelen
Sensory stimulation refers to interventions designed to stimulate one or more of the five senses. These interventions are designed to provide a relaxing and soothing activity which is failure free, responsive to the individual, and is enabling. Sensory stimulation interventions … Continue reading
