Brain Injuries
Severities of brain injuries
What are the mild, moderate and severe?
This is the command center of the body
What 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 term defines how a person understands the world and acts in it.
What is cognition?
This is having difficulty storing and recalling information
What are memory deficits?
These professionals address social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral concerns that occur after brain injury
What is a counselor?
This is a 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 2 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...
Traumatic Brain Injuries are 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 causes a person to have trouble understanding, speaking, reading, and or writing.
What is aphasia?
These are professionals that address vision impairments, arm 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?
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?
Driving after using drugs or drinking alcohol. One of the most preventable causes of brain injury.
What is driving while intoxicated?
This is how many Americans will sustain a traumatic brain injury every year
What is over 2.8 million Americans?
This is how long before brain damage if somone goes without oxygen
What is 4 to 6 minutes?
This is the part of the brain that controls high level thinking called executive functioning
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is a work order day program where survivors of brain injury come to socialize and work on goals alongside other survivors of brain injury
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?