08 January 2024
Research to understand family relationships and the psychological wellbeing of partners following a loved one’s brain injury.
Research about family relationships after brain injury
If you are the partner or spouse of someone who has had a brain injury (such as traumatic brain injury, encephalitis or stroke), please consider participating in an ongoing research project t...
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16 November 2022
Fundraising …. Luke to lift the equivalent of a blue a whale in a day!
Luke to lift the equivalent of a Blue whale in one day to raise funds for Brain injury is Big.
Blue whales are large, in fact, their tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their heart as much as a small car!!
All funds raised will go t...
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08 September 2022
Fundraising Charity Golf Day
For the last 10 years, Brain Injury Group have held their annual charity golf day in October and raised funds for Brain Injury is Big. In that time, they've had over 720 golfers attend, hitting over 12960 balls, raising in excess of £28,626 to enabl...
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20 October 2021
New Buddy Patient Liaison Initiative
Has your loved one recently sustained a serious brain injury? Maybe you are feeling that you've been left in the lurch with no real help or advice from medical staff. Do you feel that you have had to become an 'expert' in neurological conditions?...
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26 January 2021
Can we help you with our grant scheme?
Does your loved one need any equipment or therapy to help improve quality of life at this very difficult time?
Perhaps, for example, a powerpack for a wheelchair, an ipad or portal to help with communication, or sensory equipment to help with stim...
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02 November 2020
Can you help with some research into the experience of a partners grief and a child’s behavioural and emotional challenges following a parental brain injury?
Poppy Harding is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist and is looking for adults who: their partner has experienced a brain injury, and they have a child with this partner aged 7-17. It is a short online survey and should take no longer than 20 minutes to ...
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27 January 2020
Would you like to get in contact with others in a similar situation?
If you just want to chat on line with others in a similar situation as yours, just visit our forum or join BIG talk on facebook....
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29 November 2019
Our thought go out to Gary Rhodes family and friends after his tragic death this week.
Gary Rhodes died of head injury, family confirms
Article taken from the Guardian Newspaper
The TV chef Gary Rhodes died from bleeding between the skull and the brain, according to a statement from his family.
They said they wanted to end “painfu...
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25 October 2019
Failed and forgotten in a US Care Home
Hopelessness can’t be predicted within the first three days a brain injury, says Dr John Whyte. Yet, as he has learned in decades of working with disorders of consciousness (DOC), many doctors assume otherwise.
Faced with an unconscious head tra...
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16 October 2019
Tranexamic acid to stop brain bleeds could save thousands of lives
DRUG TO STOP BRAIN BLEEDS COULD SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES (Times Newspaper 15/10/19)
Thousands of lives could be saved worldwide every year after scientists showed for the first time that a drug can reduce mortality after traumatic brain injury.
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03 October 2019
Parents of brain injured win legal fight to take her to Italyfor treatment after British Doctors refused
The parents of a brain-damaged young girl have won a legal fight to take her to Italy for treatment after British doctors argued that her life support should be turned off.
Five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb has been at the Royal London Hospital since suff...
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18 July 2019
The brain injured daughter I have ‘lost’ but not lost – Helen’s story
The brain injured daughter I have ‘lost’ but not lost – Helen’s story
Annette’s daughter Helen, suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of 18.
Annette recalls the emotional story of how the traumatic brain injury has affected Helen...
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13 June 2019
This is what real love looks like!
The Most Inspiring Love Story
This is what real love looks like!
Posted by Power of Positivity on Tuesday, 28 May 2019
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16 May 2019
Updated Glasgow Coma Scale
WHAT IS THE GLASGOW COMA SCALE AND HOW IS IT BEING UPDATED?
This article looks at the expansion of the Glasgow Coma Scale to assist in classifying severity and prognosis in brain injury.
What is the Glasgow Coma Sc...
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13 March 2019
Action for Brain Injury week theme announced!
Action For Brain Injury Week is a week-long awareness raising event that takes place between the 20th and 26th May 2019.
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26 February 2019
Welcome to our new website
We first launched our web site in 2011 with the help of Lynne's son Scott.
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18 May 2018
Empowering the severely brain injured and their families.3
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03 May 2018
Empowering the severely brain injured and their families.
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03 December 2017
Empowering the severely brain injured and their families. 2
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