Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain Injury Association of America is a website with a lot of information. They have links to State Chapters. Many of the State Chapters have their own libraries of information. Spanish and English resources.
National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury a web site run by the Virginia Commonwealth University. They publish online information about the National TBI Centers and there is a very good newletter TBI Today with helpful and practical suggestions about day-to-day issues in dealing with a head injury. You can sign up to have the newsletter sent to you automatically.
The Traumatic Brain Injury Guide - and online booklet written by Dr. Glen Johnson a Clinical Neuropsychologist. You can read it online or download it. He requests that individuals send him a donation if they can afford it.
National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - Along with information about TBI, there is information on clinical trials, summaries of research projects, and links to other types of brain disorders.
Booklet: Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research
Center for Disease control and Prevention (TBI) - English and Spanish resources
The Michigan.Gov web site has a section on TBI. It has a number of educational brochures and guides including the booklet "Michigan Resource guide for patients with TBI and Their Families. You can download the booklet. It is available in English, Spanish and Arabic. Another information guide deals with access to state services for persons with TBI.
The Brain Injury Association of Florida has online some useful information for families including: Brain Injury a Family Guide available in both English and Spanish that you can download. They also have a guide called Making Life Work that is currently only available in English that deals with issues of someone returning home after TBI and inpatient rehabilitation. From the website you need to click on the "information you can use" tab in the left column.
The University of Washington Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Program has some nice Patient and Family Education Brochures covering such topics as "driving and TBI", "Sleep", "Pain", etc. They also have a resource page that lists web site links to other information.
The CDC has some helpful resources.
Booklet "Facts about Concussion and Brain Injury"
Last updated 06/02/2010