A must to have on hand when you or a family member is faced with this unfortunate injury

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	• Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools and Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss Cheryle Sullivan Demos Health, 2008 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Clever ways to learn to be clever again

There are few injuries more traumatic than brain injuries. Not to be able to find just the right word at just the right time can be...devastating.

This book will teach you tricks for how to cope. Much of it consists in learning to plan, to take notes, and to organize, organize, and organize again so you can regain your life.

I would like to point out also that this book would be of extreme value to any caregivers. Sometimes it can be difficult to persuade someone with brain injuries to read a book like this. Even so, this book will show you how to help your loved one.

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A must to have on hand when you or a family member is faced with this unfortunate injury

The brain is the most important organ of the human body, and dealing with damage to it is a feat in itself. "Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools, & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss" is a guide for those who are afflicted and those who are family to them. Touching on the many sorts of brain injury and the effects of each, it tackles subjects such as communication, struggling with memory, medication, and dealing with day to day life when it's an epic challenge to do so. "Brain Injury Survival Kit" is a must to have on hand when you or a family member is faced with this unfortunate injury.

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Excellent resource book !

Even if you dont' have a brain injury this book is well worth reading, it has helped me organize my life and get things organized!

Concise & utterly useful guide

The physician who wrote this book suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury herself, and is thus intimately familiar with the myriad effects a severe concussion and worse can have on memory, organization, thinking, and on and on. She does a truly fantastic job of concisely explaining strategies and techniques for coping with all sorts of difficulties following a brain injury.

Her sparse writing style is particularly useful to the brain injured, who frequently have difficulty with reading dense prose. The reader can easily use the book section by section; each chapter and section stands alone, so that there is no need to read chapter 2 in order to make sense of chapter 4, etc. Every page of this slim volume is packed with extremely valuable tips.

Of all of the books I've read since my mild brain injury several years ago, this is amongst the very best.

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Helped my client with TBI and furthered my education!

I very much appreciated this book. I began to read it to see if it might have some ideas for a client of mine who has brain injury impairments. I was hooked when I found that it was written by an MD who both has and treats folks with TBI (traumatic brain injury). But my client and I continued to be launched into it's organized, clearly expressed ideas: it is so easy to read (early high school and up) and yet idea-provoking and empowering, propelling folks with TBI toward self-care actions and awareness. This might just be a 'must' for those of us working with folks with TBI, whether you're a professional - doctor, nurse, visiting aide, counselor, therapist, or family or friend. I am proud to have it on my shelf.

I would have liked to have seen more on coping with the emotional impact and changes of TBI on both the patient and those around them, as well as the medical tools and medications now being developed. Maybe the next book the author writes?

In sum, I strongly recommend the pennies for the book, and still turn to it again and again to get the concrete, practical and compassionate ideas it offers.

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More and more Iraq war veterans are returning Stateside with brain injuries, drawing public attention to this condition. This practical, easy-to-use book gives brain injury survivors, their families, and their loved ones the strategies they need to boost brain function and live well. The book is a compendium of tips, techniques, and life-task shortcuts that author Cheryle Sullivan, a medical doctor and brain injury survivor, has compiled from personal experience. With a different tip for each day of the year, the book explains balancing a checkbook, using medication alarms, compensating for impaired memory, locating things that have been put away, finding the right word, concentration exercises, and much more. From basic principles to unique solutions for saving time and energy, this book is packed with helpful information for those coping with the special challenges of this surprisingly widespread condition.

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