Introduction

  Because you picked up this book, we can assume that you or a family member has undergone one of the most challenging medical injuries existing – mild traumatic brain injury, or MTBI.  MTBI is a cluster of psychological and emotional difficulties that occur when a person has had severe trauma to the head. It is a curable condition, but many people live with these types of injuries without any medical guidance or psychological assistance.  The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook represents a multistep approach to addressing your injuries.  Throughout the book I will provide you with education on head injuries and information about what you might expect while navigating your course of recovery. This book will guide you through the process of examining where your deficits may be and help you to determine to what degree these deficits may affect you. I will give you the tools to better understand how the injury impacts your life and how to deal with this impact.

  The exercises within this book serve many purposes. They will help you to quantify the level of damage you’ve experienced and identify your strengths. The exercises have been tested by more than a hundred patients with different levels of brain injury and are designed to examine and treat very specific regions of the brain. With the information we gain from the exercises, you can compare your performance with that of others and determine your level of impairment. Therefore, the process of recovery will coincide with identifying and addressing your symptoms.  As you progress through the book and complete the exercises, I will guide you in examining and quantifying different aspects of your cognitive function (the operation of your mind and thoughts).

  Your recovery process will not only include the cognitive aspects of healing – those related to thinking – but will also encompass the emotional influences, social impacts, professional consequences, and economic hardships that you may encounter. This recovery process will initially entail some retraining of cognitive functions like attention, emotions, and memory. We will also explore strategies that will help you compensate for your specific identified deficits and begin to rebuild cognitive function. We will set and achieve realistic goals that will guide your recovery.

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