empowering the severely brain injured
and their families via support, understanding and a network of care

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Welcome to Brain Injury is BIG.

How do you manage when someone you love has been a victim of a sudden accident or illness which leaves them severely brain injured?
This devastating event leaves you emotionally floundering , while facing a tidal wave of questions and desisions.
Who can you turn to for support – who can help you understand what is going on?
We have been there – we can help!
We may not be able to remove the anxiety and pain, but we may be able to make it a little easier to live with the situation.

You can contact us by phone, email or login into our forum where you can chat with others in the same situation.

Brain Injury Knowledge Base

The brain

Complex and fragile – what is it and how can it be affected by severe injury?

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Therapies

Critical for stimulating brain functionality – what is available and what seems to work?

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Help from us

How can we help you, emotionally, with information and financially?

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Help from others

What other help is available – Legal, medical and others?

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Fundraising

We fundraise to help individuals with personal needs and care organisations with specialist equipment. What is available and how can you help us?

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Latest News

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Research to understand family relationships and the psychological wellbeing of partners following a loved one’s brain injury.

Research about family relationships after brain injury If you are the partner or spouse of someone who has had a brain injury (such as traumatic brain injury, encephalitis or stroke), please consider participating in an ongoing research project t...
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Fundraising

Fundraising …. Luke to lift the equivalent of a blue a whale in a day!

Luke to lift the equivalent of a Blue whale in one day to raise funds for Brain injury is Big. Blue whales are large, in fact, their tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their heart as much as a small car!! All funds raised will go t...
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Fundraising Charity Golf Day

For the last 10 years, Brain Injury Group have held their annual charity golf day in October and raised funds for Brain Injury is Big. In that time, they've had over 720 golfers attend, hitting over 12960 balls, raising in excess of £28,626 to enabl...
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New Buddy Patient Liaison Initiative

Has your loved one recently sustained a serious brain injury?  Maybe you are feeling that you've been left in the lurch with no real help or advice from medical staff.  Do you feel that you have had to become an 'expert' in neurological conditions?...
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Help from us

Can we help you with our grant scheme?

Does your loved one need any equipment or therapy to help improve quality of life at this very difficult time? Perhaps, for example, a powerpack for a wheelchair, an ipad or portal to help with communication, or sensory equipment to help with stim...
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Research

Can you help with some research into the experience of a partners grief and a child’s behavioural and emotional challenges following a parental brain injury?

Poppy Harding is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist and is looking for adults who: their partner has experienced a brain injury, and they have a child with this partner aged 7-17. It is a short online survey and should take no longer than 20 minutes to ...
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Would you like to get in contact with others in a similar situation?

If you just want to chat on line with others in a similar situation as yours, just visit our forum or join BIG talk on facebook....
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Our thought go out to Gary Rhodes family and friends after his tragic death this week.

Gary Rhodes died of head injury, family confirms Article taken from the Guardian Newspaper The TV chef Gary Rhodes died from bleeding between the skull and the brain, according to a statement from his family. They said they wanted to end “painfu...
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Failed and forgotten in a US Care Home

Hopelessness can’t be predicted within the first three days a brain injury, says Dr John Whyte. Yet, as he has learned in decades of working with disorders of consciousness (DOC), many doctors assume otherwise. Faced with an unconscious head tra...
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Tranexamic acid to stop brain bleeds could save thousands of lives

DRUG TO STOP BRAIN BLEEDS COULD SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES (Times Newspaper 15/10/19) Thousands of lives could be saved worldwide every year after scientists showed for the first time that a drug can reduce mortality after traumatic brain injury. ...
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Parents of brain injured win legal fight to take her to Italyfor treatment after British Doctors refused

The parents of a brain-damaged young girl have won a legal fight to take her to Italy for treatment after British doctors argued that her life support should be turned off. Five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb has been at the Royal London Hospital since suff...
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The brain injured daughter I have ‘lost’ but not lost – Helen’s story

The brain injured daughter I have ‘lost’ but not lost – Helen’s story Annette’s daughter Helen, suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of 18. Annette recalls the emotional story of how the traumatic brain injury has affected Helen...
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This is what real love looks like!

The Most Inspiring Love Story This is what real love looks like! Posted by Power of Positivity on Tuesday, 28 May 2019 ...
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Updated Glasgow Coma Scale

WHAT IS THE GLASGOW COMA SCALE AND HOW IS IT BEING UPDATED? This article looks at the expansion of the Glasgow Coma Scale to assist in classifying severity and prognosis in brain injury. What is the Glasgow Coma Sc...
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Action for Brain Injury week theme announced!

Action For Brain Injury Week is a week-long awareness raising event that takes place between the 20th and 26th May 2019.
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Welcome to our new website

We first launched our web site in 2011 with the help of Lynne's son Scott. 
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Therapies

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