Brainlash : Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury - Softcover

Denton, Gail L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964665352 ISBN 13: 9780964665354

Publisher: Attention Span Books, 1996

Synopsis

Mild traumatic brain injury can happen to anyone, anytime in cars, sports, or workplace accidents, falls, or through physical assault, including domestic violence and shaken-baby syndrome. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control estimates that 1.4 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year, and that at least 5.3 million Americans currently have long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of a TBI.

Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible-- and to support the wide range of people affected by MTBI. For patients, family members, physicians and other health care providers, attorneys, health insurance companies, employers and others, it covers options and services, health and vocational issues, medicolegal topics, psychological and emotional implications, and more!

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About this title

About the Author

Dr. Gail Denton is both a psychotherapist and a brain injury survivor. She wrote Brainlash to make sense of her experience and to share what she learned along the way. She presents a way of understanding the depth and breadth of the road ahead for everyone involved in the process of recovery.

Review

The condition called "brainlash" results from whiplash type actions to the brain in which tissue may be bruised or torn by the forces of the brain being whipped around inside the skull from such conditions as a sudden stop or blow. This force throws the neck and brain into hyperflexion (forward thrusting) and then hyperextention (pulling or rebounding) and/or lateral rotation. The consequential action translates powerful forces to the brain, skull and skeletal system resulting in unnatural, potentially destructive contact between these structures and the surrounding connective soft tissues. In approximately two-thirds of those affected, physical, emotional and thinking skills will return to baseline within an average of two weeks to three months. Many of the remaining third will take an average of a year to achieve the majority of their improvements. A small proportion will sustain residual deficits which will be permanent. Brainlash is highly recommended for anyone who has suffered mild traumatic brain injury and their caretakers and family members. Brainlash offers valuable information, insights, real help and practical advice for people living with the challenge of a new life with mild traumatic brain injury. Brainlash will prove invaluable for employers, support groups, health care providers, and legal representatives to better understand milid traumatic brain injury and recovery options. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Attention Span Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964665352
• ISBN 13: 9780964665354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 383