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Often overlooked, undertreated part of brain injuries

On behalf of posted in brain injury on Saturday May 4, 2013

More than three million Americans live with traumatic brain injuries. Here in Massachusetts, we have the lowest rate of traumatic brain injury (TBI) fatalities in the nation at 9.9 per 100,000 residents. Statistics like that are cold comfort to those who live every day with TBI, however. A recent article on TBI by U.S. News & World Report indicates that an often unspoken problem is that many must deal with sexual dysfunction. Sexual problems are often overwhelmed by the magnitude of the other physical and emotional difficulties TBI victims must cope with, so they are sometimes overlooked, a new study…

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Living with traumatic brain injury

On behalf of posted in Traumatic Brain Injury on Friday March 22, 2013

We read recently of a man who lives every day with not only his loving wife, but also the symptoms of traumatic brain injury. Though he's far from us in Boston, his experiences are not far removed from those who suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in a motor vehicle accident, a fall at work, a slip on some stairs, or elsewhere. The Alabama man suffered his TBI as he worked with Alpha Company, part of the 91st Engineer Battalion, in Iraq for a 15-month stretch over 2004 and 2005. He felt the impact of several improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in his tour. The…

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