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Tag Archives: traumatic brain injury
The Model Systems Databases – A Wealth of Data at Your Fingertips
What are the leading causes of spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury? How can a person’s age when they were injured impact their recovery? How many people with these injuries return to work? These are the kinds … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for August 2018
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: Does chronic pain affect a person’s mental health and are there strategies to help deal with both? This edition … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged Answered Questions, chronic pain, disability, electrical stimulation, low back pain, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, pain, people with disabilities, psychological care, Research In Focus, SCI, Spanish, Spanish-language, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury, veterans
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month: Change Your Mind About TBI
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by an external force, such as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating injury, that disrupts the normal function of the brain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for March 2017
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. What is a brain injury? The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) (en inglés) (90DP0082) has a four part series on understanding traumatic … Continue reading
Chronic pain and disability: Pain Awareness Month
The American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) defines chronic pain as “ongoing or recurrent pain, lasting beyond the usual course of acute illness or injury or more than 3 to 6 months, and which adversely affects the individual’s well-being.” In other … Continue reading
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Tagged #ChronicPain, ACPA, Burn Injury, chronic pain, Chronic Pain Awareness Month, Disabilities, disability, MSKTC, NARIC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, pain, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, research, SCI, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, June 20 to Friday, June 24
Advocacy: Briana Scurry embraces new role as women’s brain health advocate (The Washington Post) In April 2010, Washington Freedom goalkeeper Briana Scurry sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a Women’s Professional Soccer match. Three and a half years later, … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, congressional brain injury task force, diabetes, emotional trauma, EPESE study, foot-operated video game controller, Gloria Mundi Care, medication and older adults, mindfulness therapy, OrbisBox, seniors, TBI, Temple Grandin hug machine, traumatic brain injury, type 2 diabetes
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Research: Research traces link between combat blasts and PTSD (The New York Times) Whereas the link between concussions and post-traumatic stress disorder has become clearer in recent years, a specific connection between PTSD … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged Access Earth app, accessible hotel accommodation, Alzheimer's Disease, blind, blood test for Alzheimer's disease, Brrailled LEGO instructions, concussion, elderly with disabilities, Gallop NYC, infant exoskeleton for spinal musclar atrophy, Marsi Bionics, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, riding program for children with disabilities, robotic suit, Superflex, TBI, therapy animals, traumatic brain injury
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas, Uncategorized
Tagged ABI, acquired brain injury, assistive technology, AT, brain injury, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, inclusion, NIDILRR, people with disabilities, rehabilitation, research, Spanish, Spanish-language, TBI, technology, traumatic brain injury, vocational rehabilitation
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Spanish Resources from the NIDILRR Community
Did you know NARIC is not the only NIDILRR-funded project that offers information and resources in Spanish? The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center offers factsheets for spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury in Spanish. These consumer-level factsheets were developed … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Right Resources Right Now
Tagged ADA, autism, Burn Injury, Burns, factsheets, families, Hispanic Heritage Month, NIDILRR, SCI, Spanish, Spanish-language, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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