Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury [Paperback]

Ph.D. Gail L. Denton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1932603409 | ISBN-13: 978-1932603408 | Publication Date: January 10, 2008 | Edition: 3rd

Brainlash is a comprehensive guide that complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Written in a down-to-earth, practical style, the book covers virtually every aspect of everyday life that a brain injury sufferer will need to recover, from driving and sex to self-esteem. Brainlash includes detailed options and services for patients, family members, physicians, attorneys, and anyone affected by this surprisingly common condition. This revised and updated edition contains ten new chapters and features up-to-date finding, case studies, a list of resources, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The condition called "brainlash" results from whiplash type actions to the brain in which tissue may be bruised or torn by the forces of the brain being whipped around inside the skull from such conditions as a sudden stop or blow. This force throws the neck and brain into hyperflexion (forward thrusting) and then hyperextention (pulling or rebounding) and/or lateral rotation. The consequential action translates powerful forces to the brain, skull and skeletal system resulting in unnatural, potentially destructive contact between these structures and the surrounding connective soft tissues. In approximately two-thirds of those affected, physical, emotional and thinking skills will return to baseline within an average of two weeks to three months. Many of the remaining third will take an average of a year to achieve the majority of their improvements. A small proportion will sustain residual deficits which will be permanent. Brainlash is highly recommended for anyone who has suffered mild traumatic brain injury and their caretakers and family members. Brainlash offers valuable information, insights, real help and practical advice for people living with the challenge of a new life with mild traumatic brain injury. Brainlash will prove invaluable for employers, support groups, health care providers, and legal representatives to better understand milid traumatic brain injury and recovery options. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Dr. Gail L. Denton, Ph.D., is both apsycholtherapist and a brain injury survivor. She wrote Brainlash to make sense of her own experience and so share what she learned along the way. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Demos Health; 3rd edition (January 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932603409
• ISBN-13: 978-1932603408
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #66 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Physical Impairments

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GETTING BETTER STARTED WITH READING THIS BOOK, August 6, 2000

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Steven Lloyd (Pittston, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brainlash : Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury (Paperback)

If you have suffered from a mild traumatic brain injury, as I have,"Brainlash" was the starting point of recovery for me. And I thank God for this book & Gail Denton every day. I quote a paragraph from the book that sums up the point I was at when I started to read BrainLash. "Brain injury races undetected, underdiagnosed, and undertreated through our society." "Between the medical professions ( untrained to recognize it), the insurance community ( unwilling to pay for it ), and the legal sector (unable to represent the loss or grasp the consequences), the mildly brain injured individual has little to rely on and less to go on." And NO!!!! your not going crazy, It just seems that way. The Book is easy to read and finially puts a name on, fully defines,and gives solutions to the symptoms feelings and thoughts that a brain injured person is experiencing but dosen't know why. It is also important to have your family and friends read it so they can try to understand what you are going thru even when you can't understand it yourself. From the resource section of the book I highly recomend that you consider attending the Sensory learning institute and having cranio-sacral therapy. It has been aprox 18 months since my accident and although I feel full recovery is obtainable, it is a long journey and my journey didn't start until I read this book and used its resources.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brainlash reviewed by a head injury patient., September 22, 2001

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Bruno Kortenhorst (Mullumbimby, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury (Paperback)

I have read a number of books on the subject as I am a person who has a brain Injury. This book, more than any other I have read, has been extremely helpful to me. First of all because it explains so well what happens to the sufferer, both physiologically as well as emotionally. The book also gives lots of possitive suggestions for coping as well as for healing.

I fulheartedly recommend this book for both patients as well as their family and friends. It gives much understanding into the issue of brain injury and also much encouragement. It is an uplifting book, at least for me it was!

Thank you Gail Denton.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brainlash, March 7, 2000

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Jan Lebsock (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brainlash : Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury (Paperback)

This book was introduced to me about 16 months after a car accident that resulted in my brainlash. I had many treatments and many doctors with little results and I was scared and frustrated and very alone. As I glanced through it the first time, I thought-"someone understands." It has been very informative as well as comforting as I continue my healing process. The author really understands what I'm going through. It is easy to read and understand. Everyone who's had a head injury, knows someone who's had a head injury or treats someone who's had a head injury or handles the insurance for someone who's had a head injury should get and read this book.