The Eastern Panhandle TBI Support Group held its first annual Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Fair this month in West Virginia, educating the public and sharing information with brain injury survivors and their families.
A weekend of carnage in the NFL intensified the growing attention football players, coaches, executives and officials have been paying to concussions. The league levied hefty fines against defenders who delibrately injured ball carriers and receivers with helmet-to-helmet hits and announced rule and policy changes intended to protect all professional players from concussions. Such moves…
Virginia Beach will host the 6th annual International Brain Injury Clubhouse Association’s (IBICA) conference on the weekend of September 16th and 17th at the Fulton Bank’s regional office at 4429 Bonney Road. The conference is being run by Mary Buckley Foundation’s Beacon House. The Beacon House was started by Matt Buckley, whose wife, Mary, suffered…
Some Virginia workers are being denied workers’ compensation benefits because they can’t remember how their head injury occurred while on the job.
A new study shows that more and more young people and students are suffering from head injuries while playing basketball.