Colleen LoGrande, Author at United States Brain Injury Alliance

Free TBI Webinar: Health Disparities and Traumatic Brain Injury

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Learn from experts working in research in communities to address health disparities for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a live webinar on Wednesday, May 15. This webinar will discuss TBI in the larger context of health disparities and how health equity work in other fields could be applied to brain injury. This webinar

USBIA Spring Newsletter 2019

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Our latest newsletter is out! Click the link below to read what’s happening: USBIA Newsletter Spring 2019

23 Apr

USBIA January 2019 Webinar – Not Invisible and Love Your Brain

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

January 2019 kicked off our 2019 webinar season! The first webinar was with Amy Zellmer of #NotInvisible and Kim Baker, Director of Implementation of the Love Your Brain Yoga Program. If you would like to listen in on January’s webinar, please click here.

23 Apr

Emergency Department Visits for Sports- and Recreation-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Children

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Emergency Department Visits for Sports- and Recreation-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Children — United States, 2010–2016 Traumatic brain injury (TBI), a common injury among young athletes, can lead to short- or long-term emotional, physiologic, and cognitive sequelae. For more information, click here.

3 Dec

Sport-Related Concussion in Children and Adolescents

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Abstract Sport-related concussion is an important topic in nearly all sports and at all levels of sport for children and adolescents. For more information, click here.

3 Dec

Concussions Tied to Doubled Risk of Suicide

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

(Reuters Health) – Survivors of traumatic brain injuries may be more than twice as likely to die by suicide as individuals without a history of injuries like concussions or skull fractures, a research review suggests. For more information, click here.

9 Jul

Have You Ever Been Diagnosed with a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Such as a Concussion?

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Participate in an observational study!

25 Jun

Physical Education Teachers’ Awareness and Understanding of Concussions, and Concussion Policies and Protocols

Written by Colleen LoGrande

Tagged As United States Brain Injury Alliance

Purpose: Our primary aim was to determine physical educators’ current level of understanding of concussion symptoms and response guidelines. For more information, click here.

7 Jun