Brain Injuries
Severities of brain injuries.
What are mild, moderate, and severe?
This is the command center of the body.
That is the brain?
These are the three general ways TBI can affect a person
What are cognitively, physically, and psychologically?
They help people regain their physical function, relearn daily tasks, and restore their fitness and wellness.
What is a physical therapist?
This is one of the most important items to wear for the prevention of brain injury in children and adults.
What is a helmet?
This is a period of prolonged unconsciousness brought on by illness or injury.
What is a coma?
This is how many lobes of the brain there are
4 lobes of the brain
This is having difficulty storing and recalling information.
What are memory deficits?
What is a counselor?
This is the first thing you should do when getting in a car. One of the best ways to protect against brain injury during a car crash
What is a seat belt?
Traumatic Brain Injuries can be caused by these things
What is a blow to the head or by penetration of the head from a foreign object. This could happen from falls, car crashes, assaults, shock waves...
This term defines how a person understands the world and acts in it.
What is cognition?
This causes a person to have trouble understanding, speaking, reading, and/or writing.
What is aphasia?
These are professionals that address vision impairments, arm impairments, and cognitive impairments. Help people with brain injuries improve their activities of daily living.
What is an occupational therapist?
Installing rails in bathroom, improving lighting in home, reducing rugs and clutter, and nonslip bathmats
What are ways to prevent falls in the home?
Acquired Brain Injuries can be caused by these things
What are 1. Closed head trauma 2. Stroke 3. Lack of Oxygen 4. Infection 5. Tumor 6. Surgery
This is the part of the brain that controls high level thinking called executive functioning
What is the prefrontal cortex?
These cause difficulty planning, focusing attention, and/or juggling multiple tasks successfully.
What are executive functioning tasks?
These professionals help improve cognitive behavioral skills, swallow functions, and speech impairments.
What is a speech therapist?
What is driving while intoxicated?
This is how many Americans and how many North Carolinians will sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury every year
What is over 2.8 million Americans and over 80,000 North Carolinians?
This is how long before brain damage if someone goes without oxygen
What is 4 to 6 minutes?
What are attention deficits?
What is a brain injury clubhouse?
Everyone should avoid driving this way. It could be texting and calling people while driving, applying makeup...
What is distracted driving?