Brain Injuries
Traumatic, mild, non-traumatic
What are types of brain injury?
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?
A treatment used to remove blood clots, repair skull fractures, or reduce pressure on the brain
What is a surgery in BI?
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?
Anticonvulsants, pain relievers, sedatives, antidepressants
What are medications?
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?
Lack of oxygen (stroke), exposure to toxins, pressure from a tumor
This is the part of the brain that controls high level thinking called executive functioning
What is the prefrontal cortex?
These are for 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?
Concussions that cause the brain to bounce in the skill, not life threatening but can have lasting impacts
What is mild TBI?
This is how long before brain damage if someone goes without oxygen
What is 4 to 6 minutes?
What are attention deficits?
This is a welcoming space for individuals with brain injury to connect, share experiences, and support each other.
What is a support group?
Everyone should avoid driving this way. It could be texting and calling people while driving, applying makeup...
What is distracted driving?
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?