BrainSong

Welcome to the BrainSong Community

Micah Jones You are not alone, you have come to the right place for support, information and understanding. BrainSong is a brain injury online community for female survivors. If you are new to the site, please join. It's FREE.

Having a brain injury is a club you didn't ask to join. But it happens and, in one incident, the earth beneath your feet shifts.

When you join BrainSong (it's FREE!), you are instantly linked to a network of fellow survivors, family members, caregivers, medical pros and others who, in essence, become your "support" via our website. 24/7, we are here for each other.

Ask questions, share experiences, dig for information, give a resource, help each other through rough spots.

Join me at the BrainSong community, and together we'll build a life with new lyrics.

Micah Jones
Survivor and Founder

Putting rhythm back into the lives of women with traumatic brain injuries.

Sat., July 13 10:00 am
Zanesville High School
Zanesville, Ohio

July 9
Brain Injury
Awareness Day

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This is very special place where female survivors can write about their experiences, share their progress, read stories and connect with other female survivors who are going through a similar experience.

Connect with others whose lives have been impacted by TBI
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The amazing survivors at the 2012 Walk!

Featured Survivor

Rachel Chapin Martinez

Rachel has experienced three traumatic brain injuries since 2005. The left side of her face was completely crushed and reconstructed and her left eye was barely salvaged in 2008. Her left vocal cord just started working for the first time on March 26, 2013 since emergency surgery in 2008...She is going to sing again!

She has been singing since age two. She said "to sing again is like having my heart handed back to me.”

Rachel is a soldier in the United States Army - Interrogator/Linguist.

She is collaborating with Stanford University and The Department of Veteran's Affairs to educate medical staff and the public about the effects traumatic brain injuries have on female veterans by telling her story of which a digital version is going into the National Smithsonian Archives.

ROCK THE WALK
10:00 am
Saturday, July 13
Zanesville High School Stadium
Zanesville, Ohio

Join us for the 2nd annual Rock the Walk fundraising event for BrainSong, The Micah Jones Foundation!

Rock the Walk is a community based event where participants register their team to walk the track at Zanesville High School Stadium. Individuals are welcome to walk too!

You may walk & rock in honor of a brain injury survivor or in support of others in our community.

Head Trauma

Every 15 seconds, someone in the US suffers a traumatic brain injury. Of the 1,000,000 people treated in hospital emergency rooms each year, 50,000 die and 80,000 become permanently disabled because of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Brain injuries occur more frequently than breast cancer or AIDS. One out of every fifty Americans is currently living with disabilities from TBI.

An average of 561,000 females suffer traumatic brain injury each year.
www.cdc.gov/injury

Concussions

A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way your brain normally works.
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