"Improving the quality of life for survivors of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and their families and supporting programs designed to prevent injuries"
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January 2012
Humor and Determination
Key to Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords Recovery
First Lady, Michelle Obama, Announces New Program to Help TBI Survivors
NEW ORLEANS -- A local doctor was among those asked to be with Michelle Obama today in Richmond, Virginia, as she announced a new program to help the troops coming home from the wars in the Middle East.
NBA Jumps Onto Concussions
March 8 2011 9:00PM
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The NBA is consulting with an independent neurologist and may establish a league-wide policy for handling concussions by next season, The Associated Press has learned.
Chris Paul collides with Ramon Sessions in the paint. Paul took a hit to his neck area and was carried off of the floor and did not return to play
CTE Found in Probert's Brain Tissue
Boston University researchers find CTE in ex-NHL player Bob Probert's brain tissue
Click Here - CTE Found in NHL Player's Brain
AP
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2001 photo,Chicago Blackhawks' Bob
Probert (24) and Los Angeles Kings' Belanger (12) mix it up in the third period of an NHL hockey game in Chicago.
Two newspapers are reporting researchers at Boston University have found a
degenerative disease in brain tissue donated by former NHL enforcer Probert. The
New York Times and The Globe and Mail in Toronto reported on their websites
Wednesday night, March 2, 2011, that Probert had chronic traumatic
encephalopathy when he died last July of heart failure at age 45. (AP Photo/Fred
Jewell, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2001
photo,Chicago Blackhawks' Bob Probert (24) and Los Angeles Kings' Ken Belanger
(12) mix it up in the third period of an NHL hockey game in Chicago. Two
newspapers are reporting researchers at Boston University have found a
degenerative disease in brain tissue donated by former NHL enforcer Probert. The
New York Times and The Globe and Mail in Toronto reported on their websites
Wednesday night, March 2, 2011, that Probert had chronic traumatic
encephalopathy when he died last July of heart failure at age 45. (AP Photo/Fred
Jewell, File) 
March 2011
For millions of people with traumatic brain injuries, getting access to long-term rehab isn't that easy.
Click here - For Brain Injury, A Treatment Gap
After Scott Hamilton survived a brain injury, his wife, Stacey Boyd, was stunned to learn their insurance company refused to cover his rehabilitation.
February 15, 2011
NBC’s chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman profiles two patients who miraculously survived severe brain trauma and defied the odds with their amazing ability to relearn how to live.
Click Here: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury - How some patients thrive after trauma?
Congress Tackles Traumatic Brain Injury in Youth and Pro Sports
October 14, 2010
(NBC) -- Concussion experts say two things are needed to better protect student athletes from traumatic brain injuries: A new law and a change in attitude. Hard knocks and bone crunching blows are a large part of football, especially among professional players, but for younger athletes whose brains are still developing concussions make it difficult to do their school work effectively. Read full story
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