Although some of the relationship changes after TBI are difficult and can be painful, there are many things that couples can do in order to enjoy each other and their relationship in new, positive, and meaningful ways.
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Dr. Jeffrey S. Kreutzer discusses Don’t Let this Horrible Accident Destroy Your Marriage.
Some people have asked about how do you save a marriage, how do you preserve a marriage, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
What is the study about?
The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and concerns of caregivers of adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) over the first few months after discharge of the TBI survivor into the community.
What did the study find?
This study found that caregivers of TBI survivors ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to compare traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes from 2 cohorts: the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) in the United States and Longitudinal Head Injury Outcome Study conducted in Victoria, Australia, by the Monash ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the Therapeutic Couples Intervention (TCI) on caregiver needs and burden after brain injury. TCI is an individually-administered couples intervention (a therapist works with one partner at a time) that focuses on improvement in adjustment and communication. Traumatic brain ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Hugh Rawlins, TBI Survivor, discusses His Divot.
This is my, what I call my divot. And it’s called my badge. What this is is they take out a piece of ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Dr. Jeffrey S. Kreutzer discusses Ambiguous Loss.
Ambiguous loss is a topic that I have thought a lot about for several years. And it was actually one of my students ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Hugh Rawlins, TBI Survivor, discusses Insight Into His Cognitive and Physical Changes.
I realized the difference in the relationship with Rosemary was really when I started understanding how screwed up ...
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 ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Hugh Rawlins, TBI Survivor, discusses Thoughts on Going to a Relationship Counselor.
I never had been to a counselor before and going to Dr. Kreutzer I didn’t have a problem ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Dr. Emilie E. Godwin discusses Impact of Coupled Relationship on Recovery.
Why should we care about relationships and the impact after brain injury? I think that we should care for ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Relationships After TBI. Rosemary Rawlins, caregiver, discusses What Couples Counseling is Like from the Couples Perspective.
Seeing Dr. Kreutzer about our relationship challenges was a little bit unsettling at first, because I think ...