Publication Date:December 14, 2001 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description The new, updated edition of the renowned classiccomplete with cutting edge neuroplaticity and exciting experimental rehabilitation research! Living with Brain Injury will help readersboth families of patients and professionals alikethrough new, uncharted territory of brain rehabilitation, a world where people we love may change before our eyes, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
An Excellent but Outdated ResourceMarch 16, 2010 Garry Prowe(Gainesville Florida) 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While this book is excellent, it is ten years old. I prefer the much newer Mindstorms: The Complete Guide for Families Living with Traumatic Brain Injury (2009). Living with Brain Injury answers most of the questions asked by those new to brain injury. It's easy to read (with one exception) and can be digested in small portions. This is important because this book should be read by families as soon as possible after an injury. When I first picked up Living with a Brain Injury a few days after my wife's accident, I found much of Chapter 1, "An Anatomy Lesson," rough going. I'm not sure any writer could explain the complex operations of the brain in a manner that is understood easily by traumatized family members. I quickly moved on to the other more accessible chapters. Chapters 2-4 describe what happens to the brain when it's injured and the types and degrees of brain injury. Chapter 5 introduces the diagnostic and predictive tools used by medical personnel. When Jessica's doctors told me she would be changed forever by her brain injury, I turned to Chapters 6-8, which describe, in lay language, the most common physical, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms suffered by survivors. Chapter 9, "How to Pick the Right Rehabilitation Hospital" lists the fifteen components every rehabilitation program should include. Chapters 10 and 11 describe the rehabilitation personnel and processes that will help your survivor recover as well as possible. Chapter 12 provides even more hope in its explanation of the amazing ability of the brain to rewire itself around damaged areas. Returning home from the hospital presents new challenges to both survivors and caregivers. The final two chapters address these issues. Throughout Living with Brain Injury, Senelick and Dougherty assure their readers that people can recover well from a brain injury, something that we all can't hear too often.
Great Resource for Family of Brain Injured Loved OneFebruary 10, 2010 Antionette B. Kimball(Ocala, FL) I've purchased 5 of these books for family memebers - we each refer to it often. But don't wait for long - buy it as soon as you need it so you will know better what's ahead. And you will want to keep it around for a while. I also got the video, but find the book easier to manuever in.
The author, Richard C Senelick, MD, must be a very caring person, as he personally answered my email regarding the video.
Again, many decisions may have to be made, and you will be more aware of
some of them if you get this book as soon as you need it....
Also, start taking pictures immediately, and if your loved one has to be moved from one place to another, take more pictures, especially in rehab. Plan a meeting with the new rehab immediately and present facts and figures about how your family member is doing. Therapy departments are not the best at forwarding information, and may want to do tests over and over again, or may not believe how your person is doing. You will save time and money and effort by being prepared with your information.
A. Kimball
Probably nothing you didn't already know.May 23, 2009 L. Laflamme(Ga. USA) If you are living with someone with a brain injury, there is probably very little in this book that you didn't already know. Having said that, it still is worth the read. It's a long process and reading things you heard in the hospital or rehab months before is reassuring and comforting. Knowing that when things start manifesting, you aren't crazy is a help too. You can read that others have gone through the same or worse.
The Best Layman's TBI BookOctober 31, 2008 R. Gibbons(Dallas, Texas) Of all the traumatic brain injury books designed for laymen that I have read, this is the best -- from both understanding the medical aspects to dealing with the personality changes in a TBI patient. I only wish that a more recent edition was available and that a chapter dealing with the wild ride that occurs with elderly patients was included.
A must read for families/friends of TBI patientsAugust 8, 2008 Tina Schuman Excellent coverage of a very difficult subject.I am a brain injury nurse @ a rehabilitation hospital and have worked w/TBI patients for 20 years. This book takes you through the unfortunate experience about as well as anything I have yet read.I bought this for my daughter whose longtime boyfriend suffered a closed head injury in April,2008. She could not put this book down for 3 days. Excellent info/insight.
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