Brain Injuries
This is the month we celebrate Brain Injury Awareness.
What is March?
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 is how much the average adult human brain weighs.
What is 3 pounds?
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 buckle your seat belt?
This is a common, mild form of traumatic brain injury.
What is a concussion?
This is how many lobes of the brain there are
4 lobes of the brain (frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal)
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?
This sport is the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries in high school students.
What is football?
This term defines how a person understands the world and acts in it.
What is cognition?
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?
This is driving after using drugs or drinking alcohol (and one of the most preventable causes of TBI).
What is driving while intoxicated (or driving under the influence)?
This is how many Americans will sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury every year.
What is over 2.8 million Americans?
This is the part of the brain that controls high level thinking called executive functioning
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What are attention deficits?
This is a day program where survivors of brain injury are supported in attaining greater independence and enjoying quality of life through participation in cognitive rehabilitation, creative arts, social interaction, and life skill development.
What is Structured Day Program?
Everyone should avoid driving this way. It could be texting and calling people while driving, applying makeup...
What is distracted driving?