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This fact sheet provides sports safety tips to prevent or minimize sports-related traumatic brain injury. It also includes the signs and symptoms of TBI, and how to get help if you think you sustained a brain injury.
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This bicycle safety fact sheet provides tips to protect your head and help prevent TBI while riding a bike. It also includes the signs and symptoms of TBI, and how to get help if you think you sustained a brain injury.
During pandemic conditions, planners of mass immunization events need to consider additional measures to minimize risk of COVID-19 or similar infectious disease transmission.
Questions and answers about the MHS Joint HIE
Joint Health Information Exchange (jHIE) is a secure network that shares your health information.
Connected Health Security and Privacy information for mobile devices
Update to the current version already posted// (NEW) Fixed the 508 issue 20200807// Hope this isn't a duplicate effort. I thought I resubmitted this already.
Neck pain can occur together with headaches following a concussion. This fact sheet provides information to help patients manage neck pain. Various techniques are explained, including the use of heat or cold therapy, neck stretches, proper sleep positions and common activities that may contribute to neck strain.
This document describes the line leader responsibilities for the Department of Defense (DoD) mandated policy, DoD Instruction 6490.11, “DoD Policy Guidance for the Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion in the Deployed Setting,” that applies to all service members involved in potentially concussive events in deployed settings.
Getting restful sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your health, and it often takes thoughtful preparation during the day. This fact sheet offers service members and veterans who experience sleep disturbances with healthy sleep tips that can likely improve their sleep.
Although each headache is different, identifying common causes, or triggers, is important for health care providers and patients to determine appropriate treatment. This fact sheet provides non-drug options to help those diagnosed with a mild TBI and associated post-traumatic headache (PTH) manage symptoms.
This fact sheet can be used by health care providers to educate patients with concussion/mild traumatic brain injury on how to manage memory problems related to their injury.
This fact sheet describes the main causes of traumatic brain injury and the importance of prompt and proper treatment.
This fact sheet provides answers and information to commonly asked questions about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
This fact sheet identifies major physical, cognitive and emotional symptoms of concussion and provides coping and recovery tips.
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