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Objective: To determine if the interaction of opiate misuse and marijuana use frequency is associated with behavioral health outcomes. Design: Cross-sectional, secondary analysis from a multisite observational cohort. Results: Three thousand five hundred thirty-five (94.3%) participants did not misuse opiates, 215 (5.7%) did misuse opiates (taking more opioid pain medication than prescribed and/or using nonprescription ...

Objective: To examine whether exposure to high-risk events causing injury to the head or neck has an effect on neurobehavioral symptoms in the absence of an alteration of consciousness in Spanish-speakers. Design: Cross-sectional study. Subconcussive exposure was defined as endorsing exposure to one or more high-risk scenarios in the absence of any alteration ...

Objective: To quantify the benefits versus harms of amantadine in the treatment of irritability and aggression following traumatic brain injury. Design: Secondary outcome data from a randomized controlled multisite trial of amantadine 100 mg twice daily were used to calculate number-needed-totreat (NNT). Given prior findings of positive clinician-perceived effects and low incidence of ...

Objective: This article outlines the rationale and process the CDC used to develop a tiered case definition for self-reported TBI to be used for surveillance purposes. Background: Current methods of traumatic brain injury (TBI) morbidity surveillance in the United States have primarily relied on hospital-based data sets. However, these methods undercount TBIs as ...

Objective: Current methods used to measure incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) underestimate its true public health burden. The use of self-report surveys may be an approach to improve these estimates. An important step in public health surveillance is to define a public health problem using a case definition. The purpose ...

Objective: This study aimed to characterize the types and timing of repetitive head impact (RHI) exposures in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to examine the effects of RHI exposures on mental health outcomes. Design: Secondary data analysis. Results: The majority of RHI exposures were sports-related (61.1%), followed by other causes ...

Objective:To examine the unique contribution of alexithymia at 1 year after traumatic brain injury (TBI) to the prospective prediction of emotional and social health outcomes at 2 years post-injury.Design:Multicenter, longitudinal cohort study.Results:Simple adjusted models demonstrated that after controlling for the specific outcome at Year 1, TAS-20 scores significantly predicted Year ...

¿Qué es la estimulación eléctrica funcional? Las personas con una lesión de la médula espinal (LME) suelen tener debilidad en los músculos de los brazos, las piernas o el tronco. Esta debilidad puede ser parcial o completa, lo que dificulta o imposibilita algunos movimientos. En muchos casos, la estimulación eléctrica funcional ...

Objective: To investigate the performance of machine learning (ML) methods for predicting outcomes from inpatient rehabilitation for subjects with TBI using a dataset with a large number of predictor variables. Our second objective was to identify top predictive features selected by the ML models for each outcome and to validate the ...

Objective: To examine the associations between health literacy and health outcomes among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) at least a year post-injury. Design: A multicenter, cross-sectional, observational study. Results: After controlling for sociodemographic, injury, cognition, and time post-injury, adequate health literacy was associated with higher odds of greater perceived physical health compared with participants ...

What Is a Laser? A laser is a device that creates a special, single color of light. Unlike a flashlight, the kind of light a laser creates is focused and full of energy. People use lasers for many things. They use lasers to read barcodes at a store, play music on ...

Talking About Your Traumatic Brain Injury After a traumatic brain injury (TBI), people will often ask questions about your injury. Sometimes you may want to talk about it. Sometimes you may not—and that is okay. Thinking about these conversations before they happen might help you feel more comfortable. It is up ...

What is the study about? The study looked at the role resilience (a person’s ability to adjust in a positive way) has on the relationship between perceived stress and the impact of pain intensity on general activities, mood, mobility, social relationships, sleep, and other areas for people with spinal cord injury ...

Alexis Brown’s Burn Injury Journey Alexis Brown became a Burn Nurse in October of 2022 at a Level 1 Trauma Center in Toledo, OH. Her patients were mainly Burn or Trauma patients facing the worst day of their lives. She came to the unit with an open mind to learn new ...