Driving After Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Physical disabilities and cognitive impairment are the main reasons that an individual may be unable to drive after a traumatic brain injury. Doctors are required to inform the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that a person has a health condition which impairs their...
22nd Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference | Feb 2012
Date: February 15-17, 2012, Location: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre in Vancouver, BC Satellite Conferences held simultaneously in Victoria and Kamloops, BC. The Annual Pacific Coast Brain Inury Conference will return February 15-17, 2012. The theme for 2012 is: Real...
G.F. Strong Rehab Centre Acquired Brain Injury Programs
G.F. Strong hosts a number of workshops for suvivors of brain injury and stroke, their family and friends. These workshops provide an open, informal forum in which to discuss and learn about the brain, how it works, and its recovery. Attendees concerns, questions and...
Read the latest issue of THE Challenge!
The Brain Injury Association of America authors a quarterly publication, THE Challenge!, which offers readers advice, support and guidance for those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury and their families. The latest issue of THE Challenge! features several...
Observations from the SickKids Centre for Brain and Behaviour Conference
SickKids Centre for Brain & Behaviour 2nd Biennial Conference - Brain Injury in Children July 12 - 14, 2011 – Toronto, Canada Day one of the conference was dedicated to a review of issues relating to birth injury and neonatal encephalopathy. We had some excellent...
A Run to Remember – brain injury awareness event
Brain injury survivor David McGuire is running a marathon a day across Canada to raise awareness of brain injury. The New Westminister native sustained a brain injury in 2005 and, although he was told that he may never walk again, David completed his first marathon a...
Brain Injury as a Result of Prescribed Medications
Not all brain injury arises from a traumatic event. A number of our clients have developed a often irreversible brain disorder called tardive dyskinesia (tardive means "delayed" and dyskinesia means "abnormal movement"). Tardive dyskinesia is a serious side effect...
Fraser Health & Douglas College Brain Injury Film Festival
Roughly 14,000 British Columbians suffer a brain injury each year, and it remains the leading cause of death and disability for people under 45. Some 300,000 Canadians, meanwhile, live with brain injuries caused by stroke. Fraser Health’s Acquired Brain Injury Program...
Rules about operating a vehicle not always the same
We tend to think about injuries arising from vehicle collisions as simply the result of “motor vehicle collisions” and that the rules associated with driving are the same whether the vehicle involved in a collision is a motor cycle, sports car, family van, snow plow...
ThinkFirst Canada combatting head injury in sport
The issue of head injuries in sport has exploded onto the Canadian scene in 2011. The media frenzy caused by the National Hockey League's biggest star, Sidney Crosby, falling victim to serious concussions grew with the deaths of former NHL and NFL players who suffered...
