Posts tagged brain

• Paralyzed Patients Control Robotic Arm With Thoughts

  David Mittleman | May 17, 2012 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Once upon a time, paralysis typically meant that an individual would be reliant on someone else for the rest of their life to assist them with daily functions. But thanks to technological...

• HB 4936 - Putting Michigan's drivers in harm's way.

  Timothy Smith | January 05, 2012 10:28 AM | 7 CommentsTraverse City, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In mid-September, Representative Peter Lund, who is Chair of the House Insurance Committee, introduced House Bill 4936 which is a reform proposal being pushed by Michigan’s Auto Insurance...

• The Forgotten Injury After TBI: The Injury to the Marriage

  Timothy Smith | December 16, 2010 12:32 PM | 2 CommentsTraverse City, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It is clear to the doctors who treat traumatic brain injury, as well as the attorneys that represent those same injured individuals, that the organic damage to the brain itself is a very real injury...

• Two Children Killed by a Fresh-Water Parasite

  Mark Bello | August 17, 2011 9:39 PM | 3 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  This video is a special health warning report on a parasite known as the brain-eating amoeba which claimed its second young victim this month. Naegleria is a microscopic ameba (single-celled...

• Don't Use Tap Water in Neti Pots--It Could Kill You

  David Mittleman | December 18, 2011 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  If you use a Neti Pot for cleaning out your sinuses, you might want to read the latest news from health regulators in Louisiana. Although some people swear by the neti pot, if not used correctly,...

• Endocrine System Dysfunction Following Brain Injury

  Timothy Smith | January 15, 2009 2:14 PM | 2 CommentsGrand Rapids, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  SeminarWeb has asked me to speak again on this emerging issue in the area of traumatic brain injury. I presented this issue to a national group of attorneys in early 2008 and have been asked to...

• Advanced Technology Showing How PTSD Alters Brain Function

  David Mittleman | November 28, 2009 4:22 PM | 4 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  For years people suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were dismissed as complainers and fakers. Their cases were given little to no serious consideration from the medical community...

• The Mystery of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Uncovered

  David Mittleman | April 29, 2012 10:26 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is characterized by inexplainable, chronic and severe tiredness that doesn't go away with rest and is not directly related to other medical conditions. For patients...

• Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Three This Summer

  David Mittleman | August 18, 2011 3:58 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  It might sound like something out of a horror movie, but it's true--three people have died this year from brain-eating amoebas that flourish in warm water, especially during the summer. While it...

• Brain-Eating Ameba Takes the Lives of Two More

  Mark Bello | December 20, 2011 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  In August, a sixteen-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy died in separate incidents from meningitis after contracting Naegleria, a microscopic ameba (single-celled living organism) that can...