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There is an important point on page 2 of the above article. It says:
Good quality fats and protein are very important. Those of us who have avoided eating fats all our lives are having greater brain degeneration late in life. This is because we have been missing the fats needed to make neurotransmitters, cell membranes (the brain of each cell) and hormones. Whether or not you are afraid of fats, here are some suggestions. Eat the organic chicken with the skin and eat duck and chicken eggs including the yolk. Supplement your foods with cold-water fish oil and coconut oil from the best sources. Eat 4 teaspoons of coconut oil/day, more if you can, to avoid/cure dementia (see Dr. Mary Newport’s article) |
Air Travel Tips
Here is an excellent article about air travel. I contributed my tips from experience traveling frequently during the early stages of my recovery to this article. The part about seating that reduces visual stimulation is of paramount importance to me.
http://braininjuryselfrehabilitation...al-challenges/ |
Good article on brain food
Here is a link to an article from brainline.org
Good food you can add to your diet to promote a healthy brain. http://www.healthybrainforlife.com/a...foods-to-enjoy |
Hormone & TBI
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More on using hormones to heal brain injury.
Concussion can cause hypopituitarism, neuroendocrine dysfunction, growth hormone deficiency, other hormone deficiency and insufficiency and other endocrine related imbalances that can cause many symptoms that are associated with "brain injury" but are actually caused by endocrine system dysfunction that was caused by the brain injury. It can be treated and with treatment the symptoms will improve or be completely eradicated. http://www.dcoe.health.mil/MediaCent...sfunction.aspx http://www.dcoe.health.mil/Content/N...rence_Card.pdf http://www.dcoe.health.mil/Content/N...mendations.pdf http://www.dcoe.health.mil/Content/N...ing_Slides.pdf |
Didn't see this listed. Includes a series of videos on TBI basics, brain injury causes and effects, other acquired brain injury, and practical advice for coping.
http://www.braininjury101.org/ |
Here's scientific evidence why everyone needs sleep to heal.
While you sleep, your brain is able to clean itself out of toxins and other things that it needs to. http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-beh...te-brainwasher I speculate that there are more things it needs to clean out after a concussion, which may be why people recovering from a concussion are so tired! And why it's such a good idea to rest when your body tells you that you need to. |
Organic Coconut Oil
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Hormone imbalance caused by concussion. Neuroendocrine dysfunction caused by concussion. etc.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ne-deficiency/ http://www.dcoe.mil/content/Navigati...ing_Slides.pdf http://www.dcoe.mil/content/navigati...mendations.pdf http://www.tbi-research.org/neurotrauma09kreber.pdf |
The links I posted earlier don't seem to be working now and I can't edit my post. Here are some more links about hormonal imbalance and neuroendocrine dysfunction after concussion:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ne-deficiency/ http://w.jwci.org/uploadedFiles/Home...ituitarism.pdf http://www.dcoe.mil/content/Navigati...ing_Slides.pdf http://tbi-research.org/12hormone.pdf http://www.tbi-research.org/neurotrauma09kreber.pdf If you start looking, you can fond dozens and dozens of articles about growth hormone deficiency, neuroendocrine dysfunction, hypopituitarism and post-traumatic hypopituitarism caused by mTBI if you start Googling them. This seems to be what a lot of experts are researching these days. I suspect in the next 10 years or so, that a lot more information will be gained about this subject, and that will include changing the hormone levels that are considered "normal" or average so that more people can be treated. There also seems to be some discrepancies among experts opinions concerning different gender needs of GH. |
TED Talk: Can the Damaged Brain Repair Itself?
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Thanks
There is a lot of information in this link that I can personally connect with, unfortunately. Thank you....<3
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questions about HBOT
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Referrals for binocular vision screening (for convergence insufficiency and vision therapy, etc) are available at http://www.braininjuries.org and http://www.nora.cc
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Thanks for this, Margo. What kind of treatment did you get, if you don't mind my asking?
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You'll be okay!
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I'm new to this forum (a fall in my condo 8 months ago has me dealing with similar symptoms to yours). If you rest and don't try to push through it you will heal. Reading through the stories on this forum gives me hope. I had a very similar experience to you. I didn't realize I had a problem at first and now here I am with getting tired just from talking to my friends, sensitivity to noise and getting dizzy from just walking. BUT each week when I don't overdo it I do see improvement. The key is to have patience. It sucks to lose your social life, especially at your age when going out is expected but you just have to tell your friends you are sick and just stay home. Let yourself heal now. It's better to have a boring year at 20 than to live it up in misery and suffer for longer. Rest now so you can enjoy the rest of your 20s when you are ready. You might want to postpone the trip - America isn't going anywhere. Our pizza will be here waiting for you over the next 80 years of your life. You will get here! When you are depressed come to this forum and see there are people who understand. Hang in there! |
Article from today - NeuroTalk News Forum
Even Mild Traumatic Brain Injury May Cause Brain Damage http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread207059.html http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/07...age/72677.html ___________ White matter correlates of cognitive dysfunction after mild traumatic brain injury Published online before print July 16, 2014, http://www.neurology.org/content/ear...00000000000666 ___________ Neurology Now: June/July 2014 - Volume 10 - Issue 3 - p 24-31 doi: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000451324.82915.54 Tracking Traumatic Brain Injury: What new biomarkers may reveal about concussion over the short and long term. Shaw, Gina http://journals.lww.com/neurologynow...at_new.16.aspx |
Vestibular Migraines
Vestibular Migraine (a.k.a. Migraine Associated Vertigo or MAV)
http://vestibular.org/migraine-associated-vertigo-mav |
Useful and informative link on recovery from PCS
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Drug interaction checkers
many of the interaction checker sites allow you to add vitamins and supplements to check everything- here are a few of them-
http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html http://www.rxlist.com/drug-interaction-checker.htm http://reference.medscape.com/drug-interactionchecker |
Compound protects brain cells after traumatic brain injury
Article focuses on its use shortly after brain injury, but it has been shown that injury can kill cells up to 20 years after injury, so compound could eventually be given to those with chronic brain injury symptoms years later http://now.uiowa.edu/2014/09/compoun...c-brain-injury |
This P7C3 group of compounds are the target of the research being started by Calico, the company started by a Genentech and Google group. The research is just starting.
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STUDY SHOWS “REVERSING BRAIN DAMAGE” AMONG NFL PLAYERS IS POSSIBLE:
http://www.amenclinics.com/latest-ne...lthy-protocol/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How Do Omega-3 Fats Help Support Brain Healing?: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...-benefits.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Omega 3 Acids Continue To Provide Hope In Curing Brain Injury: http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/bl...brain-injuries ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brain damaged teen Grant Virgin makes amazing recovery after fish oil treatment: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/hea...-1226805478121 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
Professor Jeff Bazarian does a Q&A on concussions:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comm...n_a_professor/ |
Harvard Psychiatrist recommends weed for Concussions?
Has anyone looked into this? Seems to go against everything I have thought or thought I knew about Marijuana. Just for the record I am a devout Mormon who believes that any addictive substance should be avoided - life is hard enough sober let alone with an altered consciousness. IE helping my concussed 16 year old daughter while intoxicated would not really work - if anything could drive me to drink it would be the past year. If anyone has personal experience or knowledge please IM me. Thanks
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Sneezing Tips / advice
I thought this might be useful for those that find sneezing aggravates symptoms.
http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-a-Sneeze I have found just point 1 of method 1 to be very effective. Not really tried the others. |
Texas Researcher Developing Concussion Pill
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Omega 3's and other research to heal brain injury
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http://www.frequency.com/video/medic...4496?cid=5-235 Hope that helps! |
We've talked about CBD oil in the main forum. Canabidiol oil can be refined from commercial hemp. Here is a company that sells it. https://www.hemplifetoday.com/lp/choose-quantity/
It is also available on Amazon. |
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The Brain That Changes Itself
Book suggestion -
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge M.D. (Author) [also comes in different formats e.g. audiobook] |
Music Therapy
Yes good suggestion Lara. I have that book - some inspiring stuff in there!
Anyhow, apologies if someone has posted on this before but I can thoroughly recommend listening sessions to music that ideally gives you goose bumps! It really feels like it does me a world of good... Obviously only for those that can handle music cognitively etc. and clearly one must take precautions re volume, avoiding in ear earphones and sticking to (lighter) classical music in the main, particularly in the beginning of course... Happy to recommend/post a playlist of inspiring classical music if anyone is interested :) A lot of stuff online on this but here are some more relevant links: http://www.brainline.org/content/201...red-brain.html http://braininjury.blogs.com/brainin...in-injury.html http://www.alzheimers.net/2014-07-21...ntia-patients/ |
For some of us, in ear or over the ear ear phones are best. They reduce the ambient sounds so the brain has less work load filtering the ambient sounds. Room speakers often have too much echo and can be stressful, vs restful.
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fair enough Mark and deffo over ears i'd recommend too - re inears, though, speaking from my own experience i'd say beware as my brain simply could not handle that amount of stimulation for about a couple of months post injury - made my tinnitus worse too in an odd way, ie not through ringing but other noises started featuring...
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Interesting article I cam across today. Linking chronic inflammation to a number of brain diseases including TBI and its symptoms. I thought it was a good read. . . maybe they're even on to something :winky:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/bo...aign=nova_next |
Oxaloacetate / Oxaloacetatic acid
Article suggesting that supplementing this may provide protection against the effects of cancer, stroke and TBI...
http://www.naturalhealthadvisory.com...n-protect-you/ and some more stuff on it: http://www.mauldineconomics.com/tech...ws-brain-cells http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25027327 |
Article
Incidence of Gait Abnormalities After Traumatic Brain Injury Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation April 2009 Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 587–593 http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/...712-7/fulltext |
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