My third podcast -Possible effects of a head injury

http://chadfrancour.podbean.com/e/my-third-podcast-1434919369/?token=b6b2ac3dced0ef8843a16584c51ec860

In my third podcast I will cover the possible effects of a brain injury.  So let us get started:

Memory

Impaired memory is one of the universal problems of people with head injury.

• Calendar:
  • Keeping track of important dates, project due dates, and events.
  • Clear thoughts
  • Jot down EVERYTHING
  • A sense of accomplishment

Headaches

Headaches can be a serious problem with a head injury. In one study of head-injured people, 50% reported having a headache when they were discharged from the hospital. After one year, 33% of this same group of people said “my head still hurts.”

• Two approaches
  • Controlling:
  • Preventing

• Keeping hydrated with water

GETTING OVERLOADED

Overload theory: when a brain injury person goes into a loud, busy, and hectic place he or she may becomes cognitively overloaded.

• TAKE A BREAK!

Sleep disorders

Sleep is very important to the healing process.  Lack of sleep makes the other head injury symptoms much worse. Sleep also has an important role in physical healing.

Anger and Depression

People accept that head injury can change your thoughts and memories but has difficulties understanding that it also contains your emotions.

• Anger and depression
• What is happening in the brain?

Word finding

Word-finding is a common, and often annoying, problem. Almost every head-injured person has this problem to some degree. Head-injured people may talk normally; speech flows evenly and it’s easy to understand. But they’ll have this very odd problem–they’ll know the word they want to say but just can’t come up with it.

I would like to take the remaining time to thank you for listening and to remind you to, “live everyday like it was your last!”.
CF