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Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE)
Troubled troops, veterans and family members have a round-the-clock, free resource for locating the help they need to deal with psychological health problems and Traumatic Brain Injury. The center is always staffed with trained, professional health-resource consultants.
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National Center for TeleHealth and Technology
The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide mobile application for health care providers gives instant access to a comprehensive quick-reference guide on improving care for mTBI patients. Designed to reflect current clinical standards of care, the mTBI Pocket Guide mobile application can help you improve quality of care and clinical outcomes for patients.
Military and civilian physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and related treatment and therapy providers can use the application to find information on assessing, treating, and managing common symptoms of mTBI patients.
The mTBI Pocket Guide mobile app offers clinicians a wide range of diagnostic, treatment and information resources:
- Definitions, causes and severity ratings for mTBI
- Department of Defense mTBI Clinical Guidance
- VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Concussion/mTBI symptom management
- Summary of cognitive rehabilitation clinical recommendations for mTBI
- Clinical recommendations on driving assessment after mTBI
- Consolidated ICD-9 TBI coding tool for providers
- Examples of clinical tools and resources, and how to obtain them
- Examples of patient education materials, and where to obtain them
The National Center for TeleHealth and Technology also has these apps: Breathe 2 Relax, PTSD Coach, T2 Mood Tracker and Tactical Breather.
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American Veterans with Brain Injuries, Inc.
American Veterans with Brain Injuries (AVBI) was organized in 2004 as a grassroots effort whose mission is to offer support to the families of American Servicemembers and Veterans who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. AVBI.org went live on the Internet in 2006 to provide a web based peer support network and information resource. In January 2009, in order to expand support services and programs specifically designed for these veterans and their family members, American Veterans with Brain Injuries, Inc. was incorporated as a Not for Profit organization.
Brain Injury Association of America
Founded in 1980, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together with its network of more than 40 chartered state affiliates, as well as hundreds of local chapters and support groups across the country, the BIAA provides information, education and support to assist the 3.17 million Americans currently living with traumatic brain injury and their families.
If you or someone you love has sustained a brain injury, please call the Brain Injury Association of America at 1-800-444-6443 for information and resources and/or visit, www.biausa.org.
Brain Injury Resource Foundation
The mission of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation is to provide education, advocacy and support for persons affected by brain injury.
Brainline
Preventing, treating and living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Advocacy, news and information for survivors, friends, families, caregivers and professionals.
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Military Outreach Campaign)
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Center (PRC), the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), and the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) have resources and expertise to enhance the care and recovery of active military and veterans with paralysis and/or traumatic brain injury.
The PRC Military Outreach Campaign assists all service members and veterans with mobility impairment from a spinal cord injury or a traumatic brain injury. The PRC has two locations and an extensive website to help those living with paralysis make more informed decisions about their treatment.
Download a brochure about our Military Outreach Campaign.
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) is to serve active duty military, their beneficiaries, and veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) through state-of-the-art clinical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs. DVBIC fulfills this mission through ongoing collaboration with military, VA and civilian health partners, local communities, families and individuals with TBI.
In 2008, DVBIC's mission expanded to include Force Health Protection and Management. This encompasses the following Department of Defense (DoD) programs: TBI Surveillance, TBI Registry, Pre-deployment neurocognitive testing, Family Caregiver Curriculum, 15 year longitudinal study of TBI, Independent study of automated neurocognitive tests. DVBIC has been named the Office of Responsibility or Executive Agency for these programs.
DVBIC's multi-center network design and collaborations with forward medical commands allows for clinical innovation along the entire continuum of care: from initial injury in the war zone through to medical evacuation, acute care, rehabilitation and ultimately a return to community, family, and work or continued duty when possible.
This website features a Family Caregiver Curriculum.
Traumatic Brain Injury
TraumaticBrainInjury is a project of TraumaticBrainInjury.com, LLC. Our mission is to be the leading internet resource for education, advocacy, research and support for brain injury surviviors, their families, and medical and rehabilitation professionals.
Traumatic Brain Injury: The Journey Home
Welcome to The Journey Home - the CEMM Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) web site. This site provides an informative and sensitive exploration of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), including information for patients, family members, and caregivers. Topics include types and symptoms of brain injury, TBI treatment and recovery, and helpful insights about the potential long-term effects of brain injury. Animation is used to help patients clearly understand the brain, and the results of injuries to different parts of the brain. Survivors and their caregivers share courageous stories about their own experiences, providing down-to-earth facts along with inspiration and hope. Watch the Traumatic Brain Injury introduction video.
Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide (Online Book)
Nearly all of the survivors of a traumatic head injury and their families with whom I have worked have had one complaint: There is nothing written that explains head injury in clear, easy to understand language. Most say the available material is too medical or too difficult to read. The goal of this online book is to better prepare the head injured person and family for the long road ahead.
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Find out why we are here and who we are. We recommend visiting The Bridge From Despair for personal stories, advice, anecdotes and thoughts from survivors of brain injury and family members of survivors of brain injury.
We provide information about Brain Injury: Intracranial Pressure, Coma, The Rancho Los Amigos Scale, Neurosurgery, Brain Anatomy, Brain Functions and Pathology, and a complete Glossary of terms you may encounter.
The ICU Guide explains the function of the equipment in the Intensive Care Unit, the roles played by different members of the medical team, how to get information from doctors and other medical professionals, suggestions on locating other resources, and the role of family members of the patient.
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide
The Mild TBI Pocket Guide is a quick reference, all-encompassing resource for primary care and other TBI health care providers on the assessment, treatment and management of patients with mild TBI and related symptoms in the continental United States.
The clinical guidance and tools in the guide include:
- TBI basics
- Summaries of the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Concussion/Mild TBI(2009) and Updated DoD Mild TBI Clinical Guidance (2008)
- ICD-9 coding guidance for TBI
- Cognitive rehabilitation for mild TBI
- Clinical recommendations on driving assessment after TBI
- Patient education tools
- Other clinical tools and resources
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Operation American Pride
The goals and mission of Operation American Pride are to assist military families, both active
duty military and military members who have suffered a traumatic injury who are receiving
medical treatment while recovering in one of our VA hospitals or at their home of record.
Operation TBI Freedom (Colorado)
Operation TBI Freedom specializes in care coordination to provide the best individualized supports and resources for military personnel and veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Care coordination helps each individual with TBI:
- Manage crisis situations
- Identify resources
- Learn self advocacy
Our Care Coordinators listen to the specific needs of those enrolled in the program and help them link to services and funding resources to which they are entitled. Some of the greatest areas of need include assistance with:
- Financial issues
- Housing problems
- Benefits
- Legal Issues
- Crisis Counseling
- Family Education and Support
- Medical Care
- Mental Health Services
- Employment
- Assistive Technology
All services offered by Operation TBI Freedom are free of charge and offered by Certified Brain Injury Specialists with military and Case management experience.
Project Victory (TIRR Foundation)
TIRR Foundation and the TIRR Memorial Hermann have joined together to provide rehabilitative care for military service members injured in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The program, Project Victory, seeks to enable soldiers with a traumatic brain injury regain skills and functions that were lost through their injury.
Project Victory is looking to serve veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom who are experiencing the following symptoms:
- Trouble with memory, attention or concentration
- Difficulty organizing tasks
- Blurred vision or eyes tire easily
- Easily angered or irritated
- Difficulty inhibiting behavior- impulsive
- More sensitive to sounds, lights or distractions
- Impaired decision-making or problem-solving
- Feeling tired all the time
- Headaches or ringing in the ears
- Slowed thinking, moving, speaking or reading
Project Victory works with military personnel and veterans of recent military service, who served in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom and who have screened positively for post concussive symptoms or been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury while in combat or stateside. Services within Project Victory are provided at no cost to the client and without regard to age, ethnicity or gender.
Real Warriors Campaign
The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.
Ten in Ten Project
The 10 in 10 Project is launching with our initial mission to help every Soldier and Marine returning home from the war with a traumatic brain injury. With your donation and support the 10 in 10 Project will be able to give real help and real hope to our troops, and their families. Once the initial mission is fulfilled, the project will open the giving to the millions of civilian Americans living after brain injury who are unable to afford or access the necessary assistance.
Website includes Brain Injury Recovery Kit and Ticket of Hope fundraising program.
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