This trial will capitalize on longstanding collaborations with the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance (MN BIA) and Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to address the ineffective connection to specialized medical and community resources in the transition from hospital to community-based care, limited access to TBI experts, and variable primary care provider ...
What is the study about?
The study explored the problem solving treatment (PST) for service members with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study tested the effectiveness of the treatment in reducing concussive symptoms. PST is a telephone-based treatment, also known as telehealth.
What did the study find?
Researchers propose that the telephone-based PST ...
What is spasticity?
Spasticity is the uncontrolled overactivity of muscles caused by disrupted signals from the brain. It is common in persons with more severe traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). People with spasticity may feel as if their muscles have tightened and will not relax or stretch. They may also feel muscle ...
BrainLine is a national multimedia project offering information resource about preventing, treating, and living with TBI, and includes webcasts, an electronic newsletter, and outreach campaign in partnership with national organizations concerned about TBI.
The proposed research focuses on the challenging problem of post-traumatic irritability (primary aim) and aggression (secondary aim) using a comprehensive, rigorous approach to generate and disseminate new knowledge on this high impact, pervasive, and under-studied problem that affects approximately 29-71% of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our approach ...
Part of the Hot Topics Series: Changes in Memory After TBI This audio described version of the featured video shows Jason Cowper and Tonya Howell as they share their stories of coming to terms with changes in their memory, and strategies they use to compensate for these changes. The ...
The rehabilitation community has for many years recognized family members' valuable role in caring for persons with TBI during the course of rehabilitation and recovery. Helping family members to cope more effectively has the potential to improve outcomes for persons with TBI. Strengthening families can enable persons with brain ...
Study evaluated the utility of the School Transition and Re-entry Program (STEP) model, a systematic hospital-to-school transition protocol for children hospitalized for traumatic brain injury (TBI). One hundred families of children with mild, complicated mild, moderate, or severe TBI were randomized while hospitalized to receive STEP or usual care. ...
Study identified barriers and supports that caregivers of individuals with military-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) encounter when navigating the military healthcare system. Participants included 45 caregivers of service members and veterans (SMV) who sustained a medically documented mild, moderate, severe, or penetrating TBI. Nine in-person focus group discussions were conducted ...
Study examined the membership of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in various “vulnerable group” clusters (e.g., homeless, unemployed, racial/ethnic minority) by using statistically robust clusters obtained from patient-level data obtained from inpatient visits. Data were obtained from 148 adult patients receiving acute TBI inpatient care. Demographic and psychosocial information, ...
After severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) some people remain unconscious or minimally conscious for weeks or months, and sometimes permanently. Severe disorders of consciousness prevent such individuals from regaining independence in self-care, communication, and mobility. Many different treatments have been recommended to promote recovery from severe brain injury, including ...
Study examined resource facilitation (RF) needs of people recruited from acute trauma settings seeking return to work (RTW) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). RF seeks to improve outcomes by eliminating barriers to accessing existing resources/services. RF can also be referred to as case management, case coordination, service coordination, or resource ...
Study developed decision trees from commonly collected clinical variables to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) functional levels at 1, 2, and 5 years after moderate-to-severe closed traumatic brain injury (TBI). Flexible classification tree statistical modeling was used on prospectively collected data from the TBI-Model Systems (TBIMS) inception cohort study. Enrollments ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often results in cognitive impairment, and trajectories of cognitive functioning can vary tremendously over time across survivors. Traditional approaches to measuring cognitive performance require face-to-face administration of a battery of objective neuropsychological tests, which can be time- and labor-intensive. There are numerous clinical and research ...
The overall aim of this project is to develop user friendly, methodologically high quality models for prediction of a number of important outcomes following TBI. These outcomes will include neuropsychological status, functional status (including employment), emotional functioning, perceived quality of life, and post-traumatic symptoms. Prediction of outcome in individual ...
What is the study about?
The goal of this case series report was to look for improvement in bowel and bladder continence and cognition in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (STBI). The functional independence measure (FIM) was used to evaluate study participants at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation (IR). Researchers were ...
What is the study about?
Rehabilitation researchers and clinicians who treat individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are interested in evaluating the progression of recovery over time. The objective of this study was to use individual growth curve modeling to examine individual level patterns of change in functional outcome for Traumatic ...