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THE SCARECROW
IS BACK, LIVE,
IN PERSON
AND A WEEK FROM
SUNDAY!
OCTOBER 23, 2022
at its all new location
Piney Run Park
in Beautiful Sykesville, MD
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TO JOIN:
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Register yourself or your team for the Scarecrow Classic before October 21, 2022
- Complete the In Person 1 Mile Run/Walk or 5K (3.1 miles) at Piney Run Park on October 23, 2022
- Celebrate your accomplishment at our Victory After Party and by sharing on social media! #ScarecrowBrainChallenge2022
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PLACE
30 Martz Road,
Sykesville, MD 21784
The 2022 Scarecrow Classic will be held October 23, 2022 . This In Person event, hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Maryland (BIAMD) will rally survivors, families, friends, and supporters around the common goal of raising awareness about brain injury within the community and providing much needed funding to support the programs and initiatives of BIAMD.
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WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP?
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE THIRD VIRTUAL RACE OF THE B.R.A.I.N. CHALLENGE?
Brave,
Resilient,
Adaptive,
Innovative,
Never giving up
I WANT MY PUZZLE PIECE!
IF YOU OR YOUR TEAM PARTICIPATED VIRTUALLY THE LAST TWO YEARS AND WANT TO RUN VIRTUALLY AGAIN...HAVE NO FEAR!
WE ARE READY FOR YOU, TOO!
and select
to sign up yourself or your team.
This year's piece is the Parietal Lobe.
Last year we had runners in four states and three countries. We got lots of great pics and even better stories! We would love to beat that record for this year's virtual race.
Missed a year and need a piece?
You can sign up for that as well.
So get out there and run/walk/roll/treadmill/eliptical your way to glory!
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#5Thoughts Friday
The
Edition
10/14/2022
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A new long-covid study based on the experiences of nearly 100,000 participants provides powerful evidence that many people do not fully recover months after being infected with the coronavirus.
The Scottish study found that between six and 18 months after infection, 1 in 20 people had not recovered and 42 percent reported partial recovery. There were some reassuring aspects to the results: People with asymptomatic infections are unlikely to suffer long-term effects, and vaccination appears to offer some protection from long covid.
“It’s one more well-conducted, population-level study showing that we should be extremely concerned about the current numbers of acute infections,” said David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. “We are in trouble.”
Jill Pell, a professor of public health at the University of Glasgow who led the research, emphasized that the study revealed the wide-ranging impact of long covid on people’s lives. “There are lots of different impacts going beyond health to quality of life, employment, schooling and the ability to look after yourself,” she said.
CLICK HERE for more on this important story on COVID recovery.
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A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-related death and disability worldwide.
The report, by the 2022 Lancet Neurology Commission, has been produced by world-leading experts, including co-lead author Professor David Menon from the Division of Anesthesia at the University of Cambridge.
The commission documents traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a global public health problem, which afflicts 55 million people worldwide, costs over US$400 billion per year, and is a leading cause of injury-related death and disability.
TBI is not only an acute condition but also a chronic disease with long-term consequences, including an increased risk of late-onset neurodegeneration, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia. Road traffic incidents and falls are the main causes, but while in low- and middle-income countries, road traffic accidents account for almost three times the number of TBIs as falls, in high-income countries falls cause twice the number of TBIs compared to road traffic accidents. These data have clear consequences for prevention.
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Thanks to all who made the
in beautiful
such an amazing success.
Special Thanks to our artists:
Spanky Bentz
Jim Jim Miller and
Christina Osheim
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Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, occurs when energy impacts the head causing brain damage. Different methods of injury can cause TBI. For example, TBI may be caused by car accidents, contact sports, or military combat.
TBI often stems from physical impacts to the head or acceleration/deceleration injuries—where the brain strikes the inside of the skull. But what about brain injury caused by a blast wave from an explosion? Should that type of brain injury be considered distinct from a TBI caused by a physical impact? The short answer is "yes."
Dr. Ralph DePalma is a trauma surgeon and special operations officer for the VA Office of Research and Development.
Blast injuries to the brain are often called “invisible injuries” because there is no evidence of an external injury on physical examination or routine medical imaging. In a blast, energy from explosive shock waves is transmitted into the brain, causing injury. "It has become clear through clinical practice and research that this type of TBI is a unique clinical entity," says trauma surgeon Dr. Ralph DePalma.
Prior to the fall of 2022, there was no dedicated medical code for blast injury to the brain. At that time, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code book contained eight separate codes for blast injury (or blast overpressure) to organs in the human body: the colon, rectum, ear, lung, bronchus, small intestine, fallopian tube, and thoracic trachea. But nothing for the brain.
That concern drove DePalma, special operations officer for the VA Office of Research and Development (ORD), and Dr. William Rice, an occupational medicine physician with the Department of Defense (DOD), to petition the CDC Coordination and Maintenance Committee in 2020 to create a new diagnostic code for primary blast injury of the brain.
CLICK HERE to learn about Dr. DePalma's efforts and the new code that went into effect on October 1, 2022.
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2) Books We are READING This Week |
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By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.
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1) Quote We are Contemplating |
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- “I’m not lazy. I’m just exhausted from fighting my way through every single day.”
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HAVE A WONDERFUL
WEEKEND.
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