Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury - Softcover

G. Denton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888799374 ISBN 13: 9781888799378

Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Brain injury is often caused by everyday occurrences ? domestic violence, sports accidents, car smashups. 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, including driving, sex, self-esteem, stamina, support systems, nutrition, pain, and much more. With its up-to-date findings, case studies, list of resources, and comprehensive bibliography, this is the bible that patients, caregivers, and family members will turn to again and again for help. 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! Written from the unique perspective of a clinician who has herself survived a mild brain injury, Brainlash offers important tips that will make the road ahead easier.

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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: Demos Medical Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888799374
• ISBN 13: 9781888799378
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 392