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Coma: the fight of her son against traumatic brain injury
The traumatic brain injury and it’s after effects, subject to hour in the media, once again strongly neglected by our society. Concussions that have been subjected by young sportsmen recently made a sensitized and protective shield for population in the often destructive impacts of traumatic brain injuries to the cerebral nerves.
Last May the AQTC organization released a book called COMA, by author Ms. Denyse Rousselet and her editor.
In her book, Ms. Rousselet a mother of a son suffering from severe traumatic brain injury, which occurred 13 years ago from a tragic car accident, the recuperation of her son during the 4 years and a half of his rehabilitation. She describes in details the multiple after effects that her son faces and describes the role that multiple therapists in the rehabilitation center containing those limitations.
The AQTC and its privilege of distributing this book the total of the profits of the sales will go to a foundation allowing financing the people that went through a traumatic brain injury.
For a donation of 25$ we will provide a receipt for the book for income tax, don’t hesitate to contact Dominique St-Charles ext. 221.
The author is at your disposition and will be glad to meet with her readers.
Translate: Stephen Masciotra (AQTC member)
Volunteers who suffered from a Traumatic brain injury will be gathering to heighten public awareness for the use of a helmet while riding a bike
The 18th of May 2011 the Association Québécoise des Traumatisés, the Police Department of Montréal, the rehabilitation center Constance-Lethbridge and the McGill Health center have into operation the sensibility of wearing a helmet when riding a bike.
Since 1999 we estimate 2,800 cyclists are accident victims in Québéc. Nevertheless the decrease of deaths during that period, the number of serious injuries is predicted to be 200 victims per year. The injuries to the head are the first cause of deaths among cyclists. They are the most severe and cause 60% of deaths and 30% are severe injuries.
In the recent years the usages of bicycles, primarily in Montréal, have come to know by creating cyclist paths and the development of bike riding in the means of self service. However, the use of the helmet is not worm by many users... only 1/3 of people wear helmets to do their daily activities in Québéc. It is therefore necessary to persuade them to ensure their own security and, in this sense, the helmet is all the more important ensure their only protection. Aware of the importance of educating the citizens as much as possible of wearing a helmet, the Association Québécoise of Traumatic Brain Injury, with the support of the Police Service of the City of Montreal, has decided to put the shoulder to the wheel in the necessity of wearing a helmet “Don’t break your head; Wear a helmet.”
This device is organized in the weekly timeframe of people that have sustained a traumatic brain injury and is intended to raise awareness to cyclists of the bike paths in Montreal and also raise awareness of wearing a helmet and how it can stop serious consequences if they get a hit to the head with no protection.
At the corner of Boyer/Jean-Talon East multiple teams of volunteers composed of people that have sustained a traumatic brain injury stop cyclists to ask them questions formulated in quiz form related to traumatic brain injury and always at the interest of wearing a helmet.
For each answer each cyclist gets a chance to WIN a gift certificate offered by the boutique of bikes who take part in this research. L’AQTC thanks all the volunteers for participating in this operation.
Translate: Stephen Masciotra (AQTC member)
Results of the member needs (working on translation)
To come about a strategy to help with the needs members of the Association and help to integrate the people who have had a traumatic brain injury and to keep them close are the roles of the Association Québécois of Traumatic Brain Injuries. The association follows its mission of maintaining its capacity to respond accurately to the needs of its members, it also has a procedure of strategic plan to promote its future. The future of strategic planning is the beginning of the route of its five next steps. Its more than simple planning since it obliges the Association to examine its internal and external contexts to be able to create projects in the near future and to determine an appropriate strategy that will allow it to make a concrete decision.
To obtain a strategic reflection and feedback of their decisions, the Association proceeded to an evaluation between February 2008 and October 2010 of its diverse elements of itself. This procedure will allow the Association to address itself to the satisfaction of the needs of their members.
This evaluation helps the organization improve the quality in which it applies itself and how it has applied itself for a dozen years.
To help understand the needs of its members who have had a Traumatic Brain Injury and their loved ones, evaluate the presence and the impact of actions led are the objective of this study.
Discover the organization and results of the evaluation by clicking on the following link: www.aqtc.ca/documents/rapport-final-audit-besoins-et-qualite-aqtc.pdf
Translate: Stephen Masciotra (AQTC member)
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On this site you can find some information about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and about the services & activities of our non-profit organization.