News Tagged ‘TBI treatment

father and son hit the road to raise brain injury awareness

TBI 100x100When Joshua Brantner was 20 years old, he attended a party that changed his life forever. He arrived as a healthy, ordinary guy but left in an ambulance with a traumatic brain injury that severely impaired his mental and physical functions.

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Concussions in children require extra care and attention

concussion 100x100Concussions, that fall on the mild side of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) scale, are receiving significantly more consideration these days than ever before, thanks to studies that probe and attempt to grasp the often elusive nature of TBI.

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Clemson research offers hope for TBI patients

ClemsonLogo2 100x100New hope for people living with the physical and mental impairments of traumatic brain injury has emerged from Clemson University. Assistant professor of bioengineering Ning Zhang used a combination of synthetic and natural materials in developing an injectable biomaterial that showed great promise for brain tissue regeneration in laboratory tests.

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Teenager’s miraculous comeback provides hope for TBI patients

ok bullock 02 100x100Seventeen-year-old Aaron Bullock, an Oklahoma resident, was critically injured in an ATV accident in 2005. The boy was riding an ATV at the home of his friend’s grandparents when the accident occurred. Sadly, Bullock was not wearing a helmet at the time. Among other , including a broken leg, Bullock suffered from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that left him comatose for more than 2 months. When he emerged from the coma, it was clear that the TBI had a devastating impact on Bullock’s eyesight, mental abilities, and muscle control. Doctors weren’t optimistic about his recovery.

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