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Our TBI Truth Policy

Subject Matter Expertise: The second most critical task in recovery from TBI is finding and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in TBI to guide you in your fight. We love, respect, and need doctors and they may become our SMEs. Although we love them, we need medical professionals and doctors with experience to reach our goals. Before we consider a contributor to be an experienced doctor or a credible source, we will try to establish that they are licensed and working in the TBI field. Until we have credible evidence we will consider the information they provide to be opinion and suspect.


Credible Sources: TBI 4 TG wants to share valuable personal experiences, find good doctors and treatments for symptoms and effects; so the information we share must be accurate and pertinent. When getting my Masters Degree as a Counter Terrorism Fellow at the U.S. War College in Washington DC, I learned the term scholarly article as a description that indicates a truly credible source What Is A Scholarly Article - Definition and Types - scholarlyoa.com. All of the information we reference does not need to come from scholarly articles but to assess the quality of the information we need to know the source. As a group, I hope that our comments on contributions will always take the time to critique the source of the information.

TBI 4 TG Source ID Policy: to make source validation easy we will give badges to each member or contributor. TBI 4 TG Staff will verify credentials prior to awarding professional badges. Members and contributors can have multiple badges. All contributors will have a badge. Members do not need to have a badge because we want anyone with TBI to have access to our work and experience no matter how much they do or don’t want to contribute.

Member Badges:

· S: Supports a TBI and has to put up with his shit. We will only award this badge once the member has fully filled out their profile forms describing their relationship to TBI.

· TBI: has experienced a Traumatic Brain Injury. We will only award this badge once the member has fully filled out their profile forms describing their condition.

· SME: a published or credentialed expert, professor and or researcher in the field of treating TBI.

· MP Medical Professional: Nurse, PA or physical therapist. Credentials must be verified.

· Dr.: A doctor. Credentials must be verified.


Truth Categories.1) we ask each Member and Contributor to hotlink the sources of your information and as much as possible, use the following categories to describe your content:

  • SC (Scholarly): Based on one or several reputable sources and contains references.

  • ADT(Anecdote): Something you have observed we will treat as a fact to consider.

  • OP (Opinion): What you or someone else thinks but have not yet proven.

  • WS (War Story): A good story and as with any good story hyperbole is expected.

Glossary of Terms

Updated: Dec 8, 2021


 

#BigPharma. 1)American companies that control a $517 Billion portion of the $1.25 trillion pharmaceutical market worldwide. (Opinion), big pharma is extremely powerful and not necessarily invested in or served by alternative programs for promoting wellness. They are “The Man.”


#ConspiracyTheorist. 1) A Shitbird with the dangerous character flaws of laziness, irrational fear, ignorance and often stupidity.


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Dum Dum. 1) A friend or family member who has some level of extraordinary talent, usually intelligence, and for whom we have strong affection. 2) A public figure who we respect and like, but who has interesting quirks.


#Deconstruction 1) A philosophy developed by #JacquesDerrida that weaponizes and uses the fact that every word and every concept is a construction of human minds to annihilate fundamentalist and totalitarian structures that are justified with traditional patriarchal structures. 2 A philosophy that, if made pervasive, undermines both the corrosive and constructive structures of human understanding and leaves a rampant cultural relativism and suspicion of truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction


Full Bakken. 1) A metaphor and allusion to the movie Tropical Thunder where an actor is advised that going “full retard” is a career killer. 2) TGA is passionate which sometimes overpowers good nature and cultural sensitivity. He has been advised to “never go full Bakken” but sometime fails. For reference, most civilians cannot handle ¾ Bakken.


Grumpy. 1) A bowel movement.


Knife Hand. 1) Marine Corps drill instructors use the Knife-Hand to gather attention and emphasize their points. 2) In TBI 4 TG this image signals that, “this is important Dum Dum” and it will typically be followed by pontification.



Mama. 1) My wife Chelsea the love of my life. 2) Extremely successful and dedicated public servant who is a wickedly intelligent, bossy, extraordinarily efficient, full figured, red head, who rides a Ducati and tells me what to do.


The Mainstream Medical Industry (MMI). 1) A giant expensive tool chest, with abundant specialized tools, that can only each fix one system. Each time you start feeling crappy you see a general practitioner (who can't fix anything) they talk for 10 minutes, prescribe tests, send you to a specialist hammer, who nails you, drugs you & then your off to therapy. When your insurance runs out again you go home to wait for the next inevitable nightmare. Time is money and MMI needs to keep its customers moving.


“The Man.” 1) One who always battles, legislates against, imprisons, tortures into submission, or burns that which they do not understand. 2) “The Man” is not defined by color or race, but has either power, money, a metaphorical kingdom and/or a canon of "truths" that are the source of their power. They identify themselves through their vicious defends of these powers. 3) In the U.S. “The Man” are mostly middle age white men and women with furious grievances against demographic, cultural, spiritual and inclusive shifts in American society.

MFn. 1) An abbreviation for Motor Scooting. For example: Chris MFn Bakken is the definition of a Tough Guy.


Shitbird. 1) A person who we may or may not like, who has at least one significant character flaw.


TGA. 1) TGA is an abbreviation for your Tough Guy Administrator AKA Chris MFn Bakken.


Tough Guy. 1) TG is a guy or girl who is; resolute, strong, transforms fear into strength and action, has discipline, and strives always to do "their" best at everything.


Truth. 1) A theory that is rigorously analyzed and challenged over time and continues to be supported by all evidence available. Also see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truth


Truth Categories. 1) To maintain the integrity of this site we ask each Member and Contributor to hotlink the sources of your information and as much as possible, use the following categories to describe your content:

  • (Scholarly): Based on a or several reputable sources and contains references.

  • (Anecdote): Something you have observed we will treat as a fact to consider.

  • (Opinion): What you or someone else thinks but have not yet proven.

  • (War Story): A good story and as with any good story hyperbole is expected.

Witchcraft 1) Anything that, “The Man,” Big Pharma, and The Mainstream Medical Industry (MMI) don’t understand and/or can’t make a profit from. 2) A humorous way for TGA to deflect attention from something he does not know or understand.


 
 
 

Master Plan

I have only just started building this site but have big plans here is the bullet pointed list of my objectives


OUT LINE

TBI for Tough Guys Connects people with Traumatic Brain Injuries with other "Tough Guys" to share and learn from each other's experience.

Elements TBI4TG

Tough Guy Talk: General discussion of TBI Life and Recovery

  • Members/Contributors

  • Blog

  • First Page

OUR Tribe: Member profiles

  • Members application Page

  • Contact Page

  • Photos

  • Story upload

  • Manages access permissions

  • Members/Contributors/Doctors/Therapists/Suscribers

  • requires the story and photos for Contributors/Doctors and Therapists



TBI Recovery Research: Share research articles on key issues arraigned by symptom or conditions.

  • Form page

  • Symptom or subject dropdown

  • Executive summaries

  • Rating and Reviewing

  • Hotlinks

  • Refences


Best TBI Treatments: Successes and failures What Treatments and drugs have you tried and what condition were they meant to affect. how difficult or inconvenient was it and how many side effect did it have. Do you feel better, was it worth it and do we recommend it to others?


  • Member Forum page

  • Symptom or subject dropdown

  • Executive summary form for treatments to include Foods, supplements and drugs.

  • Rating and Reviewing

  • Hotlinks

  • Refences


Form for all Members

Find Doctors That Don't Suck: and the Medical Industry: Who are you seeing do they rock or suck. Practice, doctor, clinic, treatment center club, home or hospital. with which we gather data, what works whos good. Data need to fill into a Data base for analysis. Form and Commentary


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