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The 8th Annual State of the Art Medical and Rehabilitative Care in Brain Injury: Clinical and Legal Implications Conference was held at the Silverado Resort in Napa, California on November 16-17, with a fundraising Golf Tournament on November 18th. The conference was hosted in collaboration with the Scarlett Law Group.

Conference attendees and speakers traveled to Napa from as far as the east coast and Hawaii to be part of what has been called “the best educational conference for medical and legal professionals” that provide services to individuals with brain injury. Mr. Randall Scarlett participants were treated to a wine tasting by and Dr. Claude Monday founded the concept the Frank Family Vineyards, Elyse Winery, of medical and legal professionals joining and Falcor Wines, and had the opportunity to together to provide the latest and greatest bid on a variety of items donated to CALBIA updates in their respective fields. At the for the Silent Auction, which provided addibeginning of the conference, Dr. Claude Mun-tional funds for CALBIA. day received an award from CALBIA in recognition of his many years of service to The success of the conference could not persons with brain injury, and for his partici-have been achieved without the many sponpation and leadership on the various boards he sors, exhibitors, speakers that donated their sits on, and his committee work. time and travel expenses, and the work of Following the conference on Friday evening, the planning committee, recognized below:

SPONSORS:
High Impact Litigation Law Cash Paradigm Management Services Jones, Clifford, Johnson & Johnson, LLP Malone Law Office Delano Farms Company San Joaquin Bank Contrabande Control Specialists, Inc. Centre for Neuro Skills Scarlett Law Group Doehrman Chamberlain The Veen Firm, P.C. Law Offices of Michael B. Moore Bostwick & Associates Marcus & Regaldo Newton Medical Group Charles Guy Monnett III Brown & McDevitt Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer Shea & Shea Frank Family Vineyards Elyse Winery Falcor Wines Chalone Vineyard Kim Battuello Buehler Vineyards Far Niente Winery Freemark Abbey Winery Green & Red Vineyard Crgich Hills Cellar Heitz Wine Cellars Hess Collection Winery Honig Vineyard & Winery Milat Vineyards Winery Peju Province Winery Raymond Vineyard & Cellar Rubicon Estate Rutherford Grove Winery Shafer Vineyards Spottswoode Winery Trefethen Vineyards & Winery Trinchero Family Estates V. Sattui Winery ZD Wines Knights Jewlers

EXHIBITORS:
Care Meridian Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation Centre for Neuro Skills High Impact Litigation Juris Productions, Inc. Kentfield Rehabilitation & Specialty Hospital Learning Services Corporation Medtronic Neuromodulation Rehab Without Walls Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Dave Woodruff, Susan Connors, Dr. David Hovda, Lee Woodruff and Dr. Douglas Smith

SPEAKERS:
Dave Woodruff Thomas Malone, J.D. Douglas C. Smith, Ph.D. David Hovda, Ph.D. Michael Shea, Jr., J.D. Sharon Grandinette John Romano, J.D. Frank Branson, J.D. Bruce Stern, J.D. Mark D’Esposito, M.D. Bill Smith, J.D. R. J. Waldsmith, J.D. Daniel Kelly, M.D. Geoffrey Manley, M.D., Ph.D. Susan Connors, B.S. Rick Rollens Randall H. Scarlett, J.D. Deborah Doherty, M.D. Daniel Davis, M.D.

CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Mark J. Ashley, Sc.D. Paula Daoutis Deborah Doherty, M.D. Sharon Grandinette, M.A. Amanda Helvie Tina Horn Patrick Johnson Steve Katomski Lisa Kreber, Ph.D. Claude Munday, Ph.D. Bruce Nelson Randall H. Scarlett, J.D. Kavie Von Husen

Special thanks to:
Anna Gregory Helen Nelson

NEW YORK (CNN) — It’s been described as the closest thing to being buried alive — complete paralysis of the body, except for controlled movement of the eyes.

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Rehabilitation

Chronic stroke patients benefit from robotic upper-limb rehabilitation,

Intense, short-term, upper-limb robotic therapy improved motor outcomes among chronic stroke patients. Investigators enrolled 30 patients with upper-limb impairment due to stroke. Over 3 weeks, 18 sessions of robot-assisted therapy were delivered with the use of a robotic exercise device. Significant improvements were observed for severely impaired participants, which indicates that improvement is not limited to individuals with moderate impairments. Moderately and severely impaired patients tolerated intense, frequent, and repetitive treatment. This information is useful for determining the optimal target population, intensity, and duration of robotic therapy and the necessary sample size for a larger trial.

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A professor at the University of Houston and his research students are working with physicians and scientists at the Methodist Neurological Institute on new technology to help identify which brain aneurysms are at highest risk of rupture and could cause a stroke.

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Anosmics - those without a sense of smell - miss something often taken for granted.
By Bryan David Finlayson
I was 13 when I lost my sense of smell.

Skateboarding downhill in Santa Barbara, Calif., my stepbrother Christian and I were racing. It was not important where we were going; there was no reward for winning, no punishment for losing.

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April 17, 2006

MORRO BAY, Calif. – Through the Community Center at Cal Poly, volunteers are heading out to Morro Bay on Sunday, April 23, 2006, to paint a group home operated by OPTIONS Family of Services. Paint and some needed supplies were donated by the Morro Bay Miner’s Ace Hardware Store.

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South Sound medics in Iraq ensure 96% survival rate at Balad Air Base

SEAN COCKERHAM; The News Tribune
Published: May 7th, 2006 01:00 AM

Balad Air Base, Iraq – Maj. Brett Schlifka of Puyallup was up all night in this tent hospital that nurses describe as “‘M*A*S*H’ on steroids.”

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Invivo Partners With Office of Naval Research to Devise Substantial Improvement in Caring for Casualties From Overseas Combat Zones

LATHAM, N.Y., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Intermagnetics General Corporation (NASDAQ: IMGC) today announced that its subsidiary, Invivo Corporation, has been awarded a $500,000 Department of Defense grant to develop an integrated hardware and software system that will enable high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of traumatic brain injuries and promote substantially more effective diagnosis and treatment in many difficult cases. Invivo is partnering with the Office of Naval Research on the project.

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At 21 years old Tracy Lussenhop-Caldwell learned to walk, talk, read and write and just about everything else most people take for granted.

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Family members, as well as victims, often learn of various tests purportedly administered following traumatic brain injury. Whether the tests were administered in a given case, and whether positive results were found, may not conclusively establish, nor rule out, the existence of brain injury. Nonetheless, brief description of common tests follows:

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