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		<title>Fighter’s Brains Show Changes Before Symptoms Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EpicRehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that preliminary findings from the year-old Professional Fighters Brain Health Study show that physical changes in the brain resulting from repeated blows to the head are detectable before memory loss and decline in cognitive function appear. According to Dr. Charles Bernick, the focus on blows that result in concussion rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effectiveness of Steroid Shots Compared with That of Placebo for Back Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Bakalar in the New York Times Well blog reports that a randomized study of 84 adults with short-term back pain shows that there is no statistical significance in reduction of leg and back pain when comparing steroid injections, an arthritis medicine, and a placebo. &#8220;The researchers conclude that steroids may provide some short-term analgesic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giffords TBI Media Coverage in 2011</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2012/01/giffords-tbi-media-coverage-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Matheson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain Injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been just over a year since US Congress Representative Gabrielle Giffords experienced a traumatic brain injury as a result of a shooting in Tucson, AZ. While Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is now estimated to affect over 1.5 million Americans each year, with many of those wounded from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Giffords [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parent as Coach</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2011/12/parent-as-coach-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Matheson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness, Success]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 21st century, when American children reach late adolescence, parents have little control and children often don’t have sufficient self-control.  In the responsibility vacuum between late adolescence and early adulthood, problems develop that are a symptom of the absence of intention, living life with a focus and purpose.  Most young people grow into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent Heading of Soccer Ball Can Cause Brain Damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EpicRehab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain Injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study of the brains of soccer players who have played since childhood and currently play in adult leagues shows that &#8220;the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12 months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory, attention and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Derek Boogaard and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2011/12/derek-boogaard-and-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EpicRehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Boogaard: A Brain ‘Going Bad’ at nytimes.com traces the decline and death of NHL left winger Derek Boogaard. Boogard died on May 13, 2011, as the result of an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.  He was 28 years old. Comments from teammates, friends, and family tell a story of a decline into personality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Athletes File Class-Action Suit against NCAA over Concussions</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2011/11/college-athletes-file-class-action-suit-against-ncaa-over-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that a class-action suit claiming the NCAA has been negligent in addressing concussions suffered by athletes has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern district of Illinois on behalf of Derek Owens, Adrian Arrington, Mark Turner, and Angela Palacios. Palacios is a former soccer player; Owens, Arrington, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former NHL Linesman Pat Dapuzzo Talks about Post-Concussion Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former NHL linesman Pat Dapuzzo is just one of a number of hockey players who have been in multiple collisions and have sustained multiple concussions as a result. He is also among the number for whom the consequences of those injuries are ongoing. Dapuzzo, retired from active play and now a scout for the Toronto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gabrielle Giffords on ABC&#8217;s 20/20</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2011/11/gabrielle-giffords-on-abcs-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EpicRehab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than ten months after she was shot in the head last January, Representative Gabrielle Giffords is able to walk and is regaining her ability to speak, owing in large part to prolonged, intensive therapy. The need for treatment is ongoing:  At this stage of her recovery, Ms. Giffords still has difficulty speaking in sentences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippocampal Health</title>
		<link>http://epicrehab.com/blog/2011/05/hippocampal-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Matheson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work-Oriented Neurorehabilitation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main areas of neurogenesis in the human brain is the hippocampus, the temporary way station in your brain for information before a small portion (less than 1% of all of the information you receive) is retained as memory traces in other parts of the brain. What determines what is retained? One factor [...]]]></description>
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