Brain Injury

What is the prognosis?

Approximately half of severely head-injured patients will need surgery to remove or repair hematomas (ruptured blood vessels) or contusions (bruised brain tissue). Disabilities resulting from a TBI depend upon

Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr. Glen Johnson has made a labor of love in his on-line survival guide to TBI.

Although not all brain injuries are considered "traumatic" or result in brain trauma, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the function of the brain.

In 2003, Terry Wallis emerged from a coma-like state, the result of a car accident 19 years earlier. Since regaining consciousness, he has been able to form sentences, count to 25, and has even recovered limited use of his limbs.