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Summary
Summary
Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook is the ultimate brain injury recovery handbook. Inside, acclaimed writer Joe Healy comprehensively discusses what leads to brain injuries and how to heal from them and manage them during the process. Recovery techniques are lifestyle modifications: nutritional, physical, occupational, and attitude ones.
This is an important title for all family and friends of sufferers of brain injuries, doctors, and caretakers. With Healy's guidance, support networks will learn how to lead sufferers on their journey back to "normalcy," working and socializing as the person did before the traumatic event.
This unique book is distinctive in its scope, covering the science of the brain, its easy-to-follow nature, its accuracy, and its encouraging you- can -recover, don't just learn to cope and give up attitude. Family, friends of the injured person no longer need to feel alone, discouraged, or overwhelmed. This is a much-needed, hands-on, and extremely valuable volume.
Author Notes
Joe Healy is an acclaimed writer and editor and a traumatic brain injury survivor. He was an editor at Outdoor Life magazine, editor-in-chief at Vermont magazine, associate publisher at Fly Rod & Reel , and is currently editor of Covey Rise . Healy is involved with many fly-fishing and sporting organizations and often interviewed about outdoors-related topics. He lives in Vermont.
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
Mess with the brain, and you're royally screwed, Healy declares in this memoir about the impact of his traumatic brain injury (TBI) in 2012. The 44-year-old attempted to rescue the family's black cat when it was perched in a tree. Healy still cannot remember whether he fell off the extension ladder or from the tree, but it was nearly three weeks before he regained consciousness after the accident. He suffered intracranial hemorrhages (these did not require surgery) and a dislocated wrist. He recounts his treatment, especially an intense rehab program. Healy's discussion of TBIs includes symptoms, disabilities that might result, and long-term consequences. Depression and lack of impulse control can be serious sequelae. Post-traumatic amnesia, neuroplasticity, and the role of caregivers are addressed. Healy's main focus is on recovery. And that process requires patience, perseverance, and a positive attitude. He extols the benefits of meditation. Working his way back toward normalcy, he acquires an expanded appreciation of ordinary life. A contemplative and emotional story that details the frustrations and elation of rebounding from brain injury.--Miksanek, Tony Copyright 2016 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In 2012, Healy, a private school public relations director, fell, hit his head on the ground, and ended up in a coma, close to death, for 20 days. When he woke up, he was told he had suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A few weeks in a rehabilitation center, with intensive occupational, physical, and speech/language therapy allowed Healy to return home, but he was not ready to go back to work. Two years later, he started writing this book, incorporating his research on TBI-extensive reading of medical texts, head-injury studies, and databases, exploring damages associated with sports and recreation, and military service-related TBI-with an account of his own experience. VERDICT This title serves best as a moving, insightful memoir of a well-educated person struggling to communicate yet slowly overcoming his TBI. For an injury handbook consider instead Vani Rao & Sandeep Vaishnavi's The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior After Brain Injury.-Marcia G. Welsh, Dartmouth Coll. Lib., Hanover, NH © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
