Brain injury is a society-wide issue.
Poor understanding, ineffective preventive half-measures, and inconsistent care, are the specters that lurk around every sporting event, every high-velocity activity, every action sport.
Indeed, nearly every aspect of our lives harbors some threat of concussive brain injury. From getting in and out of the shower, to walking down stairs, to getting in the car and driving to work, to going out to lunch, to moving computer equipment around, to changing paper in a copier, to just enjoying your weekend, one wrong move, one hasty decision, and your entire life can change.
I’ve got plenty more to say on the subject – you can now find the post at my TBI research blog – https://tbiresearchriffs.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/concussion-hysteria-enough-spitting-lets-team-up/
I hope you’ll join me there for more focused discussions of emerging neuroscience and brain injury research.
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Author: brokenbrilliant
I am a long-term multiple (mild) Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or TBI) survivor who experienced assaults, falls, car accidents, sports-related injuries in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My last mild TBI was in 2004, but it was definitely the worst of the lot.
I never received medical treatment for my injuries, some of which were sports injuries (and you have to get back in the game!), but I have been living very successfully with cognitive/behavioral (social, emotional, functional) symptoms and complications since I was a young kid. I’ve done it so well, in fact, that virtually nobody knows that I sustained those injuries… and the folks who do know, haven’t fully realized just how it’s impacted my life.
It has impacted my life, however. In serious and debilitating ways. I’m coming out from behind the shields I’ve put up, in hopes of successfully addressing my own (invisible) challenges and helping others to see that sustaining a TBI is not the end of the world, and they can, in fact, live happy, fulfilled, productive lives in spite of it all.
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People only seem to care when brain injury impacts them………sadly. By then, it’s a little to late. Not all brain injuries can be prevented but the ones that are, why can’t they be?
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I agree – I think people get really freaked out by the idea of brain injury. That’s partly because the brain is such a “black box” that few people understand, and partly because they are terrified of the prospect of something happening to them. Brain injuries can be prevented… provided people take them seriously, which fear prohibits them from doing. It’s very unfortunate. And avoidable.
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