Brainlash

Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury, 3rd Edition is an easily accessible guide that complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Written by a psychotherapist who has experienced mild traumatic brain injury firsthand, its down-to-earth, practical advice covers virtually every aspect of the recovery process...

Complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Written by a psychotherapist who has experienced such injury firsthand, it provides practical advice on virtually every aspect of the recovery process.

There are more than 200,000 cases of traumatic brain injury in the United States every year. It is a major cause of deaths and disabilities. This guidebook provides essential information on Traumatic Brain Injury, but also presents first-person narratives by people coping with Traumatic Brain Injury. Readers will learn from the words of patients, family members, or caregivers. The symptoms, causes, treatments, and potential cures are explained in detail. Alternative treatments are also covered. Each essay is carefully edited and presented with an introduction, so that they are accessible for student researchers and readers.

This is the definitive book on brainlash, the result of a whiplash action to the brain that causes it to be bruised or torn within the skull. Written by a doctor who is a brain-injury survivor, Brainlash presents a way of understanding the road ahead for everyone involved in the process of recovery, which can take weeks, months or years. Spouses, family and friends of brainlash patients learn to better understand and cope with their loved one's condition. Doctors, nurses and other health care providers learn more about the experience from the patient's point of view, a blessing to patients who cannot articulate it for themselves. Attorneys representing brain-injured clients get a rundown of short- and long-term effects the injury can have on their clients' lives. It also enlightens health insurance professionals about the condition and informs employers about the options available to keep the brain-injured employee.

On a crisp October day in 2002, Lindsey O'Connor woke from a 47-day medically induced coma. She heard her ecstatic husband's voice and saw his face as she emerged from the depths of unconsciousness. She was bewildered by the people around her who looked so overjoyed and were so thoroughly attentive and attuned to her every move. Then came the question: "Do you remember that you had a baby?" Lindsey drifted in and out of consciousness again for weeks. When she finally and gradually surfaced permanently from her long submersion, she struggled to understand that the day her baby came into the world was the day she left it. Her awakening was the happy ending for her family and friends--the miracle they had been praying for--but it was just the beginning of Lindsey's long and frightening journey toward a new reality. With visceral images and richly layered storytelling, Lindsey O'Connor vividly tells the poignant true story of the struggle to reenter her world and rebuild her identity. Underlying this life and death battle is a story of lost and found love, the effort to make sense of life-altering events, and the continuing search for self. This moving memoir paints a powerful picture of pain, beauty, and the unsurpassable gift of finally knowing who you are.

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Over 1.4 million people sustain a brain injury each year in the United States. Add to that the number of returning veterans with a brain injury and the numbers are staggering. The Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss aims to give brain injury survivors, their families, and loved ones the strategies they need to improve brain function and quality of life. The book is a compendium of tips, techniques, and life-task shortcuts that author Cheryle Sullivan has compiled from her personal experience. Readers will learn successful approaches to: Balancing a checkbook Using medication alarms Compensating for impaired memory function Locating things that have been put away Word finding Concentration exercises Communication tools And much more! From basic principles to unique solutions for saving time and energy, this book is packed with helpful information for those coping with the special challenges of a brain injury.