Events for May 22, 2025 - March 1, 2025

Recognized annually on September 20, National Concussion Awareness Day is a chance to start a conversation and increase concussion awareness, raise funds for charitable organizations dedicated to brain injury and show support for those affected through social media, community events and press coverage.

Since 1992, October has been celebrated as National Physical Therapy Month, a time to honor and celebrate all the physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) across the United States. This month-long celebration is a tribute to the professionals who help patients regain their quality of life and an opportunity to educate the public on the critical role PTs and PTAs play in healthcare.

In this David Strauss Clinical webinar, Dawn Neumann, Ph.D., FACRM will describe newly identified factors, known as negative attributions, that significantly contribute to anger and aggression after brain injury. Dr. Neumann will demonstrate two assessments that can be used to clinically evaluate a patient’s tendency toward negative attributions and describe a new clinical approach for treating anger and aggression associated with negative attributions called Intervention to Change Attributions that are Negative (ICAN). Learning Objectives: Explain what negative attributions are and their relation to anger and aggression after brain injury. Discuss assessments that can be used to evaluate patients for negative attribution style thinking. [...]

In this Butch Alterman Memorial webinar, Nick Prefontaine shares his brain injury survival story. He suffered a brain injury in a snowboarding accident and was in a coma for three weeks. His parents were told that he probably wouldn’t be able to walk, talk, or eat on his own ever again. He utilized a system, the S.T.E.P. system, to not only make a full recovery but run out of the hospital. S.T.E.P. stands for: Support, Trust, Energy, and Persistence. Learn how anyone can use the S.T.E.P. system to get through their trauma and thrive.

Homewood Suites by Hilton Charleston Historic District 415 Meeting Street Charleston, South Carolina January 22 – 24, 2025 The BIAA Neuro Rehab Leadership Summit (formerly, the Brain Injury Business Practice College) is the premier national conference for executives and professionals in neuro rehabilitation. Network with your peers and attend sessions focused on industry trends, best practices, human resource management, and legislative topics. The multi-day summit is packed with educational sessions and networking events. Click here for more information. This summit is ideal for: Individuals in leadership roles in neuro rehabilitation programs and organizations, including executives, directors, managers and other leaders in operations, finance, [...]

Brain Injury Florida is making plans for the 2nd Annual Run, Walk Roll 5K event to raise money to continue our mission of supporting those with Lived Experience of Brain Injury.  We are hoping to expand this event this year.    More information will be provided soon.  Please plan on attending this great and meaningful event.

The Brain Injury Association of America will be hosting our awareness and advocacy day on March 3-5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. On March 3, we will be hosting preconference activities and March 4-5 will be focused on awareness and advocacy. More details will be shared in the coming months.

Brain aneurysms are health events that can potentially cause widespread damage in more extreme cases. This is a condition where the blood vessel walls begin to weaken in the brain. Over time, a bulge forms on the blood vessel, which can grow in size. If it ruptures, the leaked blood can lead to a hemorrhagic stroke. However, brain aneurysms are more common than you might think, and most of them don’t progress to become damaging. What makes them dangerous is that usually there are no symptoms. In many cases, people don’t learn that they have a brain aneurysm until they seek treatment for a [...]