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The study looked at how cognition (the ability to understand and process information) relates to the functional recovery and time spent in hospital for patients in special burn recovery facilities, called inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). Researchers in the study used an evaluation called the Functional Independence ...
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Researchers were interested in the effectiveness of an intervention that increased the rate of return to work among burn survivors. The study looked at a group of interventions that sought to return employees who had been injured on the job back to work within 90 days ...
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This study attempted to answer three questions: 1. How many people admitted to a rehabilitation hospital for management of burn injury had difficulties with memory, attention, and/or problem solving (cognitivecommunication skills); 2. What medical and social factors might result in continued difficulty with memory, attention, or ...
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The researchers identified a need for the development of a measurement tool to determine the social impact of burn injury. They created a pool of questions that specifically captures the social aspects of recovery, since current questionnaires tend to focus on physical recovery. The items measure ...
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This project aimed to gain a better understanding about how well people re-integrate into society and social activities after burn injury. Understanding the social lives of burn survivors is important for improving burn survivors’ quality of life. This research asked burn victims to help develop a ...
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Spontaneous and unpredictable recovery can sometimes occur after acute cervical traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI). Because of this, baseline measures to predict neurologic recovery are often inaccurate. The aim of this study is to assess data from patients with acute cervical tSCIs to measure whether different ...
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Multiple comorbidities that affect recovery is a real concern for aging individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The aim of this study was to detail the most common co-occurring comorbid conditions among adults fifty years and older with TBI.
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The three most commonly ...
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The purpose of this study was to assess connections between cognitive impairment, (eg. abnormalities in the ability to process information quickly, poor memory or concentration), and post-traumatic brain injury depression (PTD) in the first year following a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Easy to use and accurate tools for predicting long-term functional prognosis are needed for patients of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families. This study aims to build a practical decision tree using a collection of clinical variables to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) levels at ...
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This study aims to determine whether rehospitalization in the first two years after a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with poorer societal participation at five years post-TBI.
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This study found that rehospitalization during the first two years after TBI ...
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Fatigue is a common symptom after a burn injury. The goal of this study was to determine how often adult burn survivors experienced fatigue and how severe their symptoms were. It also attempted to identify burn survivors who were most likely to be fatigued at 6, ...
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This study aims to explore which psychosocial and demographic variables, in combination with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a measure of severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI), are predictive of TBI functional outcomes five to fifteen years post-injury.
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The findings were somewhat surprising ...
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Monoamine transporters are protein structures that help regulate the levels of neurotransmitters that send signals to the nerve structure. Dopamine and serotonin are examples of compounds that send signals throughout the body. They are important in regulating a variety of brain activities including memory, executive functioning ...
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors are typically classified by injury severity using a measure that relies heavily on level of consciousness. The most common measure is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and is very helpful in planning early treatment. It is often used to establish prognosis, ...
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Memory impairment is common for individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ) was designed to measure everyday memory failures in individuals with TBI. Though the EMQ has demonstrated clinical effectiveness through distinguishing between individuals with TBI and orthopedic controls, its factor structure ...
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Differentiating genuine traumatic brain injury (TBI) from faked neurocognitive impairment is essential to correctly provide resources in legal and healthcare systems. This study assessed the strategies used by healthy adults who were coached to simulate traumatic brain injury (TBI) during neuropsychological evaluation.
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There is strong evidence that when clinicians use behavioral observations and information obtained through clinical interviews and medical records they do not predict the validity of the performance well and are particularly prone to false-positive errors in classification. It is important to be able to distinguish ...
In addition to loss of motor and sensory function, persons with SCIs experience altered autonomic function including neurogenic bladder, bowel, and sexual functions. Whereas significant information is available to predict the impact of specific levels and types of SCI on recovery of motor and sexual function, little information is available ...
The study proposes to evaluate the efficacy of venlafaxine HCl as an agent for preventing the occurrence of depression among people with both new and existing spinal cord injuries (SCI). While pharmacological agents are commonly used for treating depression in this population, research to evaluate the efficacy of this ...