Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Minor Brain Injury - Softcover

Deuton, Gail L., Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964665352 ISBN 13: 9780964665354

Publisher: Attention Span Books, 1997

Synopsis

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury can happen to anyone, anytime; in cars, sports or workplace accidents, falls or through physical assault, including domestic violence and shaken-baby syndrome. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control estimates that 1.4 million Americans sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) each year, and that at least 5.3 million Americans currently have long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of a TBI.

Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible - and to support the wide range of people affected by MTBI. For patients, family members, Physicians and other health care providers, Attorneys, health insurance companies, employers and others, it covers options and services, health and vocational issues, medicolegal topics, psychological and emotional implications, and more!

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Review

As a survivor of a brain injury, the author provides valuable insightsÇ does a good job of providing personal insights in an accessible, understandable, and practical way. - Elliot J Roth, MD, (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)<p><I>""... Brainlash will prove invaluable for employers, support groups, health care providers, and legal representatives to better understand mild traumatic brain injury and recovery options. ""</i>--Midwest Book Review <P><i>""This comprehensive guide complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Its down-to-earth, practical advice covers virtually every aspect of the recovery process... Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible and to support the wide range of people affected by mild traumatic brain injury.""</i>--American Rehabilitation <p><i>""Techniques used by Denton to help her in her own recovery are amazing and should be considered by others going through similar situations... Any person involved in any aspect of brain injury would do great benefit to themselves by reading this important book.""</i>-- From the Foreword by James S. Brady

About the Author

<P>Dr. Gail Denton is both a psychotherapist and a brain injury survivor. She wrote <I>Brainlash</I> to make sense of her experience and to share what she learned along the way. She presents a way of understanding the depth and breadth of the road ahead for everyone involved in the process of recovery. </P>

Edition details

• Publisher: Attention Span Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0964665352
• ISBN 13: 9780964665354
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English