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Brain Injury Glossary
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- Gainful Occupation
- Includes employment in the competitive labor market, practice of a profession, farm or family work (including work for which payment is "in kind" rather than in cash), sheltered employment, work activity (to the extent that there is net pay), and home industries or other home-bound work.
- Gait Training
- Instruction in walking, with or without equipment; also called "ambulation training."
- Gamma-knife Radiosurgery
- A surgical application using laser-like beams of radiation to reach obscured areas of the brain.
- Ganglion
- A mass of nervous tissue composed principally of nerve-cell bodies and lying outside the brain or spinal cord.
- Gastrostomy
- The creation of an opening into the stomach for the administration of food and fluids.
- GI Tube
- A tube inserted through a surgical opening into the stomach. It is used to introduce liquids, food, or medication into the stomach when the patient is unable to take these substances by mouth.
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- A standardized system used to assess the degree of brain impairment and to identify the seriousness of injury in relation to outcome. The system involves three determinants: eye opening, verbal responses and motor response all of which are evaluated independently according to a numerical value that indicates the level of consciousness and degree of dysfunction. Scores run from a high of 15 to a low of 3. Persons are considered to have experienced a mild brain injury when their score is 13 to 15. A score of 9 to 12 is considered to reflect a `moderate' brain injury and a score of 8 or less reflects a 'severe' brain injury.
- Gloss Pharyngeal Breathing (GPB)
- A means of forcing extra air into the lungs to expand the chest and achieve a functional cough. Also called "frog breathing."
- Grand Mal
- A convulsion accompanied by loss of consciousness.
- Grandiosity
- Boastfulness; bragging; self praising.
- Grief
- The physical and emotional responses to the death, separation or loss of a beloved person or thing.
- Grief Process
- Emotional responses to grief which progress from alarm to disbelief and denial, to anger and guilt, to finding a source of comfort, and finally to adjustment.
