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Category: Awareness

List of Brain Injury Symptoms

Member’s story of her diagnosis through her brain injury and the symptoms she had.

Brain injury, Diagnosis, Symptoms

BIST Member Shannon talks Introspection

Thriving after a brain injury in discovering a goal in life that brings meaning to what you have to personally offer to the world.

Brain injury, personal growth, Recovery

Why I stopped asking ‘what if’

BY: STEVEN EDELMAN I imagine Bill Buckner must have repeatedly asked the ‘What if?’ question to himself for years after the … More

Bill Buckner, Steven Edelman, What if
We have battled this brain injury together, but alone

A year with a different brain

A version of this article was originally published on March 18, 2017 BY: ERIN MOORE On March 18, 2016 my … More

#areyouaware, Erin Moore, Hidden Disability, persistent concussion symptoms, Spouses of ABI Survivors, women and brain injury

I live with brain injury: walk a mile in my shoes and you will understand

BY: LEAH DANIELLE KARMONA Living life with a brain injury is difficult. People who do should be commended for trying their … More

Leah Danielle Karmona, Survivor stories, women and brain injury

The waves of ABI-related trauma

BY: MARK KONING If you ask me, any type of brain injury is traumatic, whether it is acquired by a … More

Brain injury, Hidden Disability, Mark Koning, post traumatic stress disorder

Come with BIST to see Brain Storm: a Toronto Fringe play about brain injury, a psychic medium and Dr. Wilder Penfield

BY: MERI PERRA If you’re of a certain age and lived in Canada, you likely remember this classic Heritage Minute featuring … More

Why didn’t my bike helmet prevent my TBI?

BY: SOPHIA VOUMVAKIS 15 per cent of the approximately 18,000 traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) that occur in a year in … More

bike accident, helmets, Hovding

Without action, awareness does little

BY: ALYSON ROGERS Nine years ago, I walked into an emergency room with very obvious signs of a concussion. Despite glaring … More

Alyson Rogers, Brain Injury Awareness Month, Concussion, Sydney Crosby

Talking it out: ABI survivor and caregiver stress

BY: MARK KONING Whether you are a survivor or caregiver to someone with a brain injury, it is sometimes quite … More

ABI stress, BIST / OBIA peer support program, caregiver relief, caregiver stress, peer support, stress management

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