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BIAMD's #5ThoughtsFriday - 03/10/2017
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#5ThoughtsFriday is
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MARCH
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BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS MONTH
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On
Sunday, March 12th
be sure to catch
BIAMD Executive Director,
Bryan Pugh,
on the
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Here are the 5 things we thought were
worth sharing with you this week:
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5) Its Time to Take Brain Injury Awareness to Capitol Hill
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Brain Injury Awareness Day
Washington, D.C.
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4) They seek understanding and treatment instead of prison and, in some cases, mercy instead of execution.
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Not long after Kris Parson returned home from the war in Iraq, his girlfriend began calling the police to their house in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, a suburb about 15 miles north of Minneapolis. She’d dial 911 to report that she and Parson were fighting, and that she was afraid he was going to hurt her. Every time police came to the house—on at least a dozen occasions—things would calm down and the officers would leave.
The police found no evidence that Parson, who served as a combat engineer with the Minnesota National Guard, had physically hurt his girlfriend, and he hadn’t done anything to warrant an arrest.
Then one night she called the police again. This time she said Parson had put his hands around her throat and tried to strangle her. The police arrested him on felony charges of domestic violence.
While he was being booked at the jail, Parson knew just whom to call. There was this lawyer over in Minneapolis who handled lots of cases for veterans and had once represented him on a drunk driving charge. The guy understood veterans and how the war had messed them up. He knew what was going on in their brains and could help. His name was Brock Hunter...
To read the rest of the story, CLICK HERE.
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3) Women athletes are 50 percent more likely than male athletes to have a sports-related concussion, according to a preliminary study
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"Sports-related concussion is a significant public health problem and research has typically focused on male athletes," said author James Noble, MD, of Columbia University in New York, N.Y., and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. "Studies comparing male and female college athletes have often been limited in size and had incomplete follow-ups."
This study looked at 1,203 athletes from 2000-2014 at Columbia University and included 822 men and 381 women who participated in sports like soccer, basketball and football. Participants took tests to measure thinking skills and processing speed before and after a concussion. The researchers also tracked symptoms and when participants returned to play after a concussion.
The Report will be formally presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 69th Annual Meeting in Boston from April 22 to 28, 2017.
To read the Article about the study in ScienceDaily, CLICK HERE
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2) What We Are Reading That You Might Enjoy...
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Laskowski’s first novel provides a unique insider’s look into the world of a brain-injured man in his mid-thirties. More than a decade before the novel opens, Robert Nyquist suffered traumatic injury in a rock-climbing accident near his home in Missoula, Montana. His once-bright future irrevocably lost, he is now writing this account of his present life as he starts Transitions, a new rehab program that promises to teach him the skills necessary to leave the group home to live more independently.
Robert is aided in his ambitious endeavor to record his thoughts by a volunteer writing coach, Ellen, who encourages him to articulate his feelings and helps him to make his memoir intelligible
Telling his story causes Robert to explore and re-define his relationships—with Lorna, another group home resident who is dying of multiple sclerosis and with whom he has established a sexual and emotional bond; with his parents, who are still struggling to accept their son’s disabilities; with his adolescent son John, whose very existence still fills him with uncertainty; and with his caregivers.
Robert’s voice is that of a man desperate to achieve coherence and “appropriateness” in the midst of a swirling, confusing reality.
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1) Quote We Are Contemplating...
“One small crack doesn’t mean that you’re broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”
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"Partners in Progress" on March 23-24, 2017, is a multi-track neuro-conference focusing on issues related to: individuals with brain injury and family members, children and adolescents in the school system, advocacy, and professional and clinical training. The purpose of the two-day conference is to provide state-of-the-art information about brain injury treatment, services, research, and advocacy, and to improve collaboration and networking between individuals with brain injury, families and professionals.
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Those CEU's in GREEN are APPROVED.
- Commission for Case Managers - 12
- Commission for Rehabilitation Counselors - 12
- Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
- Md. Bd. of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, & Speech-Language Pathologists - 12
- Md. Bd. of Occupational Therapy Practice - 12
- Maryland Board of Professional Counselors - 12
- American Therapeutic Rec. Assoc. - (Cat B) - 12
- Md. Workers’ Comp. Comm'n (MD WCC MCRSP) - 12
- The Md. Board of Social Work Examiners (Cat. 1) - 12
- The Maryland Board of Psychologists - 12
- Maryland Nurses Association - 12
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Thanks
to All of These Amazing Conference Sponsors:
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Did you enjoy #5ThoughtsFriday? If so, please forward this email to a friend! Got a story we need to follow or share?
Send it to info@biamd.org.
Want to find a story from a past #5ThoughtsFriday blog posts, visit the archive by clicking HERE.
Please let us know your requests and suggestions by emailing us at info@biamd.org or contacting us on Twitter.
Which bullet above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Let us know! Just send a tweet to @biamd1 and put #5ThoughtsFriday in there so we can find it.
Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful weekend.
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