Brain injury charity to open in WearsideRSS Feed

A new branch of the brain injury charity Headway is being launched in north-east England.

On Tuesday (December 1st), Sunderland's Stadium of Light is to host a one-day conference called Improving Life after Brain Injury and it is here that Headway Wearside will be officially launched, the Shields Gazette reported.

A number of brain injury survivors will give talks at the conference, which will start at 09:45 GMT on how they have coped with life since they sustained their injuries.

Michael Brown, from West Park, South Shields, told the newspaper that since he sustained a brain injury his life has been "completely turned upside down".

"The support that Headway can offer to people like me and their families is invaluable," he added.

Headway, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, has a number of local groups across the UK which aim to improve the lives of those with brain injuries. The groups offer rehabilitation programmes, carer support and aim to reduce the feeling of isolation many brain injured people feel.

News from Serious Law, specialist brain injury solicitors.

Neurologist has hopes for misdiagnosed brain injury patients

25 November 2009

A neurologist, who used state of the art imaging to discover that a man thought to be in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious, has said there may be many more similar cases of misdiagnosis across...

Read More...

Mother pleads to care for brain injured son at home

25 November 2009

The mother of a brain injured soldier has said she wants her son to be allowed to leave the residential rehabilitation unit he is in to live with her at home.Lance Corporal Martin Edwards, 27, has been...

Read More...

Brain injury charity extends services in Wales

24 November 2009

Headway, the brain injury association, is extending its service in North Wales to cover south Gwynedd.From December 5th the Headway Gwynedd meetings, currently held in Ysbyty Eryri Hospital in Caernarfon,...

Read More...