Brainline.Org Valuable Tool for Traumatic Brain Injury
WETA, the public broadcasting station in Washington D.C. is partnering with the Department of Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in launching a website targeted at Traumatic Brain Injury. BrainLine.org is an online effort to centralize core issues on Traumatic Brain Injury such as treatment, prevention and knowledge. The site uses video webcasts, recent research, personal stories and articles on living with TBI to empower victims and their families. More recently on Nov. 7, the site hosted a live webinar featuring former WWE professional wrestler Chr istophey Nowinski. Nowinski is now a researcher for TBI. “Up to this point, much of the information available online was very clinical and difficult to find,” said BrainLine.org executive director Noel Gunther. “We wanted to present valuable information in easy to understand language that anyone -- a service member, a mother, a teenager - could use because these injuries are having a huge impact on a large and growing segment of our country.” BrainLine.org explains what treatment people with brain injuries should receive and what kind of support they will need to begin their altered lives. The website offers resources that provide those living with TBI a 24-hour network of support. The site is located at http://www.BrainLine.org.
