March 30th, 2015
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency that is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability. The CDC directs national attention on developing and applying disease control and injury […]
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March 29th, 2015
I bet you didn’t know that March is Brain Injury Awareness month. If you didn’t then you aren’t alone. These days we are bombarded with causes. There might as well be a month dedicated to Awareness Month Fatigue. However, Brain Injury Awareness Month is one that needs your attention and there are some great people […]
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March 27th, 2015
It is commonplace for an individual who has sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to experience or to display outward behavioral and emotional changes following it. The traumatic brain injury (TBI) may have been mild, such as a concussion, more severe or somewhere in between. Two main kinds of occurrences account for most traumatic brain […]
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March 23rd, 2015
Generically, baseline testing may be defined as any test that measures current or pre-treatment parameters against which responses to therapy may be measured[1]. Stated otherwise, this kind of test is administered before an activity or therapy in order to ascertain an equilibrium or “resting state” measurement. Knowing that, it can be determined what effect the […]
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March 20th, 2015
For the past number of years, there has been much discussion in the media, the medical profession and within professional, amateur and even school sports, about traumatic brain injury. Concussions, often deemed to be a “mild brain injury,” are usually categorized as the least catastrophic on the traumatic brain injury spectrum and this is where […]
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