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NGO: Female Brain Injury from sport, domestic violence, accidents or military service. Katherine Snedaker, LCSW, Founder and CEO
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Please take two minutes to watch this excellent video that explains WHY SEX DIFFERENCES are critical to study... This is why PINK Concussions has spent the last 12 years advocating for women to be included in Brain Injury research and why we will not give up advocating! youtu.be/iyMmkoKEoLI?...

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📢 Navigating medical visits can be overwhelming for Veterans, but service dogs are changing the experience. 🐕‍🦺 👨‍⚕️ For Veterans, a routine doctor’s visit can bring back stress or trauma. Both care partners and service dogs can make the visit more successful.

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If You Build It..They Will Come: How we created a top multidisciplinary TBI team #UCLABrainSPORT #BIRC_at_UCLA 2/21/25 3pm!! @esopenkolab.com @neurotrauma.org @ucla-pedsneuro.bsky.social @uclaneurosurgery.bsky.social @pinkconcussions.bsky.social usc-hipaa.zoom.us/j/9188523643... Passcode: 299191

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

💖 This Valentine’s Day, let’s show love through understanding and support! 💖 Being heard is one of the greatest gifts we can give. As a Lived Experience Partner on the TBI study I-Heal, we’re working to ensure that patients with cognitive impairments receive the support they need.

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Intimate partner violence #IPV is an important cause of #TBI & is likely a distinct phenotype with multiple mechanisms (diffuse, focal, hypoxic). Be sure to screen & know what to do! @cesopenko.bsky.social @esopenkolab.com @pinkconcussions.bsky.social @mountsinainyc.bsky.social @neurotrauma.org

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Obstructive sleep apnea and polysomnographic predictors of neuropsychological performance two years after injury in a prospective cohort of adults with traumatic brain injury: The Clinical Neuropsychologist: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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📖✨ Congratulations to Dr. Charles Tator, Emeritus Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, and the Canadian Concussion Centre Team, for their recent publication in the Journal of Neurotrauma! 🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

NEW in ⁦@WomensHealthMag = “Concussions In Women: Why Women Are More Likely To Get Injured” by @olivialupp. PLEASE RT! Honored to be quoted in this article w/amazing Beth McQuiston MD RD, Med Director, Medical & Scientific Affairs, ⁦@AbbottNews Diagnostics www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a6354...

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frightening time.com/7209261/comm...

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Scary www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

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PLEASE VOTE FOR EAGLE!! Eagle is an amazing service dog who rescued & trained by "K9s For Warriors." Eagle is paired with my friend, Joe, who is a Veteran🇺🇸. Eagle and Joe travel around the country as Ambassadors for "K9s For Warriors." americasfavpet.com/2025/eagle-3...

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scary www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

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PLEASE VOTE FOR EAGLE!! Eagle is an amazing service dog who rescued & trained by "K9s For Warriors." Eagle is paired with my friend, Joe, who is a Veteran🇺🇸. Eagle and Joe travel around the country as Ambassadors for "K9s For Warriors." americasfavpet.com/2025/eagle-3...

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Seen in Venice Beach today

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Read our recent article on the state of implementation science and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation! #braininjury #TBI #neurorehab 🧠

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

This is content we need to move #neurorehab forward. Well done 🥳. @drkatehyzak.bsky.social @ohio-brain-injury.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to seeing this scoping review progress, neurorehabilitation for women with TBI @headstogether.bsky.social @biswg-uk.bsky.social @pinkconcussions.bsky.social @headwaylondon.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Just posted - check out this article on PINK Concussions breaking of new ground through partnerships and advocacy with @CheckYourMelon concussionawarenessnow.org/news/making-...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The Annual American Anthropology Conference was held in Tampa this year w/ the theme “Praxis.” I-HEAL members with backgrounds in anthropology, public health, health economics, neuropsychology, and speech language pathology presented on advancing Veterans’ and Service Members’ access to healthcare.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

This article highlights the need for implementation science in brain injury rehabilitation to improve the use, reach, & utlimately, public health impact of interventions for TBI. By researchers @ohiostatemed.bsky.social in Journal of Head Injury Rehabilitation. journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Timeline for this JHTR Issue 02/15/2025: Full papers must be uploaded to the JHTR Editorial Manager submission 11/01/2025: Expected publication date Thank you. Katherine Snedaker, LCSW and Lisa A. Brenner, PhD Topical Issue Editors More info journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract to the JHTR Topical Issue regarding TBI in Women and Girls. There were an unprecedented number of submissions and as such, we regretted that we could not select every submission for this specific issue.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely incredible!! Over 750 people registered for the 2024 ENIGMA IPV and @pinkconcussions.bsky.social conference: IPV & Brain Injury: Breaking Down Barriers & Building Understanding! A truly heartfelt thank you to all attendees, speakers, and the organizing committee!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

My first post here - hard to leave Twitter as I have so many important connections, dear friends, and international ties but I do not like what is happening over there... hope to rebuild, reconnect and flourish in bluer skies.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments