Traumatic Brain Injury In The News

A video of the explosion showed grass flattening under the force of an invisible shock wave, swelling in advance of the fireball that scorched the crash-test dummy.

Young players are increasingly getting their "bells rung" in soccer, hockey and football, doctors said at a Hockey Canada seminar on concussions held Saturday in Winnipeg.

Monday night, we showed you what doctors must do, immediately following a traumatic brain injury, to provide the best chances for recovery. Tonight, in part 2 of our special assignment, TBI: The Silent Epidemic, we introduce you to people, right here in the Central Valley, who are continuing to recover, even years after their brain injury.

All three were shattered, in different ways. Eddie Silva lost his sight. For June Moss, the wounds were emotional. Shrapnel from an explosion tore into Angel Gomez’s head.

Marine Cpl. James Dixon was wounded twice in Iraq -- by a roadside bomb and a land mine. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, a concussion, a dislocated hip and hearing loss. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

It's been two years since doctors removed part of Chris Orr's skull and put it in his abdomen. They did this so the Salina man would have a better chance of surviving a traumatic head injury that had caused his brain to swell.

Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 6:52 p.m. All three were shattered, in different ways. Eddie Silva lost his sight. For June Moss, the wounds were emotional. Shrapnel from an explosion tore into Angel Gomez's head.

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The Iraq war disabled them in very different ways: one soldier instantly paralyzed by a sniper's bullet, the other brain-injured by months of head-rattling explosions.

It’s been two years since doctors removed part of Chris Orr’s skull and put it in his abdomen. They did this so the Salina man would have a better chance of surviving a traumatic head injury suffered after his head struck a Lawrence bridge.