Participation is often considered a primary goal of traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation, but little is known about the influence of driving on participation after TBI. The objective of this study was to examine the independent contribution of driving status to participation at 5 years post TBI, after controlling for ...
Headache is one of the most common symptoms after traumatic brain injury (often called “post-traumatic headache”). Over 30% of people with moderate to severe TBI report having headaches which continue long after injury. An even larger percentage people with mild TBI complain of headache.
Why are headaches a problem after brain ...
The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center presents an audio factsheet on Headaches After TBI. The factsheet was developed by Kathleen R. Bell, MD, Jeanne Hoffman, PhD, and Thomas Watanabe, MD, in collaboration with the University of Washington Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center. The information in this factsheet is not meant ...
What is the study about?
Researchers were interested in assessing how physicians around the country approach the evaluation and treatment of headaches that occur after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The complexity of TBI often results in patients receiving treatment from multiple providers and in multiple clinical settings. It is important to ...
What is the study about?
The study examined self-reported medication use and headache treatment in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Headaches are one of the most common and understudied symptoms experienced after mild TBI. Researchers hope to learn the best way to treat headaches for people with TBI.
What did the ...
Many people with traumatic brain injury have headaches for some time after their injury. This comic talks about headache symptoms that often occur after a traumatic brain injury.
Headaches can get in the way of everyday activities. The infocomic includes information about four different types of headaches that people experience after ...
What is the study about?
The aim of this is study was to develop a specific evaluation tool to assess patient reported experience and impact of fatigue on people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This was part of the larger Traumatic Brain Injury-Quality of Life (TBIQOL) measurement system. A computer adpative ...
What is the study about?
This study examined characteristics of patients with post-traumatic brain injury fatigue (PTBIF) in order to assess characteristics of those whose fatigue persisted as compared to those whose fatigue resolved. The characteristics reported included: level of disability, sleep quality, mood, and community participation, as well as level ...
What is the study about?
This study reviewed research about treatments for post-traumatic brain injury fatigue (PTBIF). By comparing all published articles, researchers were able to identify promising best practices and areas that needed more research, because PTBIF has a negative impact on patients’ quality of life.
What did the study find?
Overall, ...
What is the study about?
This article is about post-traumatic brain injury fatigue (PTBIF). The characteristics and correlates of PTBIF are described. The authors summarize the empirical and theoretical literature on PTBIF, including a variety of biologically based theories for a type of fatigue that is likely to be regulated by ...
What is the study about?
This study looks at the perceived barriers to return to driving in people who were not driving after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It looks at how perceived barriers are related to sex, race, and psychosocial factors.
What did the study find?
Physical abilities, opinions from medical providers, ...
Objective
Examine considerations and perceived barriers to return to driving, and their association with psychosocial outcomes among adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were not driving.
Methods
174 adults with moderate-to-severe TBI enrolled in the TBI Model System participated in this cross-sectional study. All participants were drivers prior to their TBI. Outcome ...
Objective: Describe who returns to driving (RTD) after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), when this occurs, who maintains that activity, and association with outcome.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive.
Setting: Eight follow-up sites of the TBI Model System (TBI MS) program.
Participants: 618 participants enrolled in the TBI MS and 88 caregivers.
Intervention: None.
Measurements: A survey ...
What You Can Do About Your Pain
In the same way that pain is personal, so too are strategies for managing it. Learning to manage pain is a process that takes practice. Don’t get discouraged if the process is difficult at the start.
In this document, you’ll find some common strategies for ...
Driving is an important part of a person's independent lifestyle and integration into the community. Because we take our driving skills for granted, it is easy to forget that driving is the most dangerous thing we do in our everyday lives. A brain injury can affect the skills needed to ...
What Is Chronic Pain, and How Can It Affect People?
Pain is an unpleasant sensation that can range from mild to very severe. Pain is very personal; two people can have the same type and amount of pain and have very different reactions to it. Pain can affect many other parts ...
Objective
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the process of stakeholder-engaged intervention mapping
approach to identify implementation strategies to overcome data-driven prioritized barriers to receiving chronic pain
services for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design
Participatory-based research design, using descriptive and
intervention mapping approaches.
Results
Four barriers to accessing chronic pain treatment by persons with ...
Objective
Identify determinants to chronic pain healthcare for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) informed
by an Access to Care Framework. Findings related to the Access Framework’s core domains of identifying a
need, perceptions of the need, and seeking healthcare are reported.
Design
Descriptive, qualitative study.
Results
For the overall sample,
14 facilitators and 6 barriers were endorsed ...