Head & Brain Injuries

• 6-Year-Old in Critical Condition After Being Attacked By Three Pitbulls

  David Mittleman | August 29, 2010 6:29 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Blackman Township, MI--Joyce Norris sadly recalls how her child's life was drastically changed after a horrific pitbull attack. Joyce's daughter, Tyah Norris, is in critical condition at a hospital...

• Link to NFL Concussion Poster

  Michael Phelan | August 26, 2010 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Ever since my blog about the NFL Concussion Poster, I've received several comments and e-mails inquiring about the commercial availability of these posters. I have yet to find out where they can be...

• Whiplash Causes Brain Damage in 23% of Cases, According to New Study

  Michael Phelan | August 18, 2010 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A new study published in the July issue of the journal Brain Injury, (“Chiari and Whiplash Injury,” co-authored by Ezriel E. Kornel, M.D. F.A.C.S., Michael D. Freeman, Ph.D., et al.)...

• NFL Concussion Poster A Must For All Locker Rooms

  Michael Phelan | July 28, 2010 3:03 PM | 2 CommentsRichmond, VA

  The National Football League will soon release a poster to be hung in all league locker rooms entitled, Concussion, A Must Read for NFL Players, Let's Take Brain Injuries Out of Play. After years of...

• Head Injuries and Kids

  Kristina Labanauskas | July 21, 2010 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  There has been an alarming increase in the number of emergency-room visits for head injuries in kids in the past five years. In fact, a new analysis by theAmerican Association of Neurological...

• A “Silent Epidemic”: Traumatic Brain Injury and Motor Vehicles

  Pierce Egerton | July 01, 2010 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  One might expect that motor vehicle accidents contribute to an overwhelming majority of traumatic brain injury (TBI) fatalities in North Carolina. Surprisingly (and sadly), even more TBI deaths are...

• Children and traumatic brain injury

  John Demas | June 29, 2010 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  When you throw a stone into the center of a small pond, it creates a beautiful ripple that expands from the center and stretches slowly but surely across the pond. If the stone was large enough, the...

• A “Silent Epidemic:” Traumatic Brain Injury and Falls

  Pierce Egerton | June 29, 2010 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  In North Carolina, injury is the third-leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. In individuals between the ages of one and 44, injury causes more deaths than anything else. Traumatic...

• Brain Autopsy Reveals Former Bengal Henry Had Progressive Brain Damage

  Michael Phelan | June 28, 2010 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, Chris Henry, died last December when he fell out of a vehicle during a domestic dispute. He was only 26 years of age. Shockingly, after performing an autopsy...

• Leader of Pentagon Program for the Treatment of Brain Injuries Abruptly Steps Down from Post

  David Mittleman | June 27, 2010 5:03 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  The leader of the Pentagon’s program for the treatment of brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorders suddenly stepped down from her post last Monday. Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, who...