Brain Injury Resource Library
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Quality of Life: What's Important
Information on quality of life and what's important.
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Fiber in Your Diet
Information about fiber in your diet.
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Life Expectancy after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Information about life expectancy after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Managing Your Medications
Information about managing your medications, including a medication worksheet to keep you organized.
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COVID-19 Fact Sheet
PDF
As COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to spread across the world, we understand that there are many concerns in our community about health and safety. Here is a basic fact sheet on COVID-19 including symptoms, how it is spread and how to minimize your risk of exposure.
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Stroke: Brain Attack!
Information about strokes.
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Educational Video: Seizures After Brain Injury
Video
A seizure is an abrupt and uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. Seizures can affect different people in different ways, but for people with brain injury, there is an increased risk of seizures. This video provides an introduction on how to recognize and respond to a seizure.
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Recovery of Consciousness After Traumatic Brain Injury
Video
Recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex neurological process. Severe injuries commonly result in a wide range of impaired consciousness. Consciousness refers often to a person’s awareness of self and their interactions with their environment. Mild injuries may sometimes cause brief timeframes of impaired consciousness such as confusion or disorientation. However, severe injuries may have a period of time whereby they have complete unconsciousness and no awareness of themselves or the world around them. Terms such as Coma, Vegetative State, Minimal Conscious State, Emerging Consciousness and Post-Traumatic Confusion or Post Traumatic Amnesia are often used by professionals caring for your family member but can be confusing to understand.
This video presentation is intended to demonstrate general patterns of improving consciousness and cognition following severe TBI. In this video, you may learn basic anatomy of TBI and what happens behaviorally step-by-step with improving consciousness. Your family member may not follow this sequence exactly and may skip steps depending on their more specific type of injury. Furthermore, as consciousness improves your family member may also have different types of impairments in their thinking abilities, referred to as Cognition. This presentation will highlight a step wise sequence of improving cognition and offer you as family members helpful suggestions on how to better assist your loved one during the rehabilitation process.
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Recovery of Consciousness After Brain Injury
Video
Recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury is a complex neurological process. Severe injuries commonly result in a wide range of impaired consciousness. Consciousness refers often to a person’s awareness of self and their interactions with their environment. Mild injuries may sometimes cause brief timeframes of impaired consciousness such as confusion or disorientation. However severe injuries may have a period of time whereby they have complete unconsciousness and no awareness of themselves or the world around them. Terms such as Coma, Vegetative State, Minimal Conscious State, Emerging Consciousness and Post-Traumatic Confusion or Post Traumatic Amnesia are often used by professionals caring for your family member but can be confusing to understand.
This video presentation is intended to demonstrate general patterns of improving consciousness and cognition following severe TBI. In this video, you may learn basic anatomy of TBI and what happens behaviorally step-step with improving consciousness. Your family member may not follow this sequence exactly and may skip steps depending on their more specific type of injury. Furthermore, as consciousness improves your family member may also have different types of impairments in their thinking abilities , referred to as Cognition. This presentation will highlight a step wise sequence of improving cognition and offer you as family members helpful suggestions on how to better assist your loved one during the rehabilitation process.
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Pain Management
Information about pain management.
We are in the process of building our interactive resource library, and new resources will be added regularly. Thank you for your patience as we continue to provide resources and services to support the spinal cord injury and brain injury community. If you are searching for additional educational information, we encourage you to call our nationally-recognized Nurse Advice LiNurse Advice Line. Nurses are available Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. MST. Call 303-789-8508 or toll-free at 1-800-247-0257. If your question or problem is urgent or an emergency, do not call the Nurse Advice Line - please go to the nearest emergency room, urgent care center, or call 911.