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Brain Trauma Research Center - Providing clinical management, research and treatment for traumatic brain and spinal injuries.
Chris' Story: Survivor of TBI - "Trooper," an Airborne Soldier and survivor of traumatic brain injury offers pictures and text chronicling his life with pride, trauma, struggle, and inspiration. Also provides ideas for therapeutic activities Brain Injury Survivors can do at home.
Whiplash Injury - Scientific information about cervicocephalic trauma, lesions, symptoms, and recovery.
Brain Injury Association USA - Promotes awareness, understanding and prevention of brain injury through education, advocacy, research grants and community support services that lead toward reduced incidence and improved outcomes of children and adults with brain injuries.
Brain Injury Association of Queensland, Inc. - Contains fact sheets on issues relating to brain injury as well as information about support, training, accommodations, mentoring, and referral services. Suitable for caregivers, health professionals and those with a brain injury themselves.
Brain Injury Association of New Zealand - Provides information, advocacy and support to people with brain injuries, family members, and caregivers. Has listing of branch offices, and offers Social Rehabilitation clinics in a variety of cities.
UAB Injury Control Research Center - Rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, severe burn or intra-articular fracture. Research in biomechanics, prevention and acute care. Located in Birmingham, Alabama.
United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) - Promotes understanding of all aspects of Acquired Brain Injury and provides expert input to UK policy makers by setting up working parties and conferences to discuss any aspect of acquired brain injury. The Forum addresses medical, social welfare, education, housing, vocational, financial, legal, and other issues in which brain injured people and their carers require representation.
Safety Tips for Farming with a Brain Injury - Article from National Agricultural Safety Database (NASD) talking about special considerations and concerns. Farmers with brain injuries share a list of general tips to help prevent additional injuries.
Physiotherapy Exercises For People With Spinal Cord Injury - Written for physiotherapists, site enables users to find exercises appropriate for patients with different neurological disabilities (including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke and multiple sclerosis).

Wikipedia Articles

Trauma center - A trauma center is a hospital equipped to perform as a casualty receiving station for the emergency medical services by providing the best possible medical care for traumatic injuries 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Trauma centers were established as the medical establishment realized that such injuries often require immediate and complex surgery to save the patient.
Blunt splenic trauma - Since the 1990's, the management of blunt splenic injuries has changed significantly. In the past, routine splenectomy was the mainstay for both evaluation and treatment of most splenic injuries.
Gunshot injury - A gunshot injury occurs when an individual is shot by a bullet or other type of projectile from a firearm. Gunshot injuries cause direct injury through the tearing, cutting and abrasion of tissue in ways similar to other penetrating injuries, and the shattering of bone and organs and other damage can be similar to that caused by blunt force trauma.
Psychological pain - Psychological pain refers to pain caused by psychological stress and by emotional trauma, as distinct from that caused by physiological injuries and syndromes. In recent years there has been some prominence to lawsuits which attempt to recover money as a result not of physical pain but psychological pain, which has been quite controversial.
Orthopedic surgery - Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedics, see below) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic, and overuse injuries and other disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons address most musculoskeletal ailments including arthritis, trauma and congenital deformities using both surgical and non-surgical means.