TBI Publications

Study examined the prevalence of employment and characteristics of transition planning practices that promoted positive school-to-work transition for students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data on the 200 participants was drawn from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS-2), a ten-year study which followed a large nationally representative sample of ...

Article reviews various treatment taxonomies current used in health care and the attempts at building classifications in rehabilitation. Discussion focuses on the need to base a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy (RTT) on the “active ingredients” of treatments and their link to patient/client deficits/problems that are targeted in therapy. This is ...

Study estimated selected health and social outcomes for adults in the United States 5 years after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that required acute inpatient rehabilitation, using data from the TBI Model Systems National Database. Mortality, functional independence, societal participation, subjective well-being, and global outcome were estimated among aged ...

Study investigated the night-to-night consistency of diagnosing and classifying obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using nocturnal polysomnography (NPSG) in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). NPSG is considered the gold standard for detecting the presence of sleep apnea. However, there is a limitation with its use known as the “first-night ...

Article reviews recent outcome studies examining virtual reality applications for cognitive rehabilitation. The purpose of this review is to facilitate comparisons of therapeutic efficacy of different virtual reality interventions. A systematic approach for the review addressed the nature of each sample, treatment apparatus, experimental treatment protocol, control treatment protocol, ...

Study evaluated the feasibility and safety of utilizing a commercially available virtual reality gaming system as a treatment intervention for balance training in patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Twenty patients were randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions: (1) balance-based physical therapy using a ...

Article summarizes the most recent data on the prevention of urinary tract infection (UTI) in patients with neurogenic bladder, with a focus on patients with incomplete bladder emptying requiring catheterization who are specifically at risk. UTI is a common problem among patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction that can be ...

A number of performance validity tests (PVTs) are used to assess memory complaints associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, few studies examine the concordance and predictive accuracy of multiple PVTs, specifically in the context of combined models in known-group designs. The present study compared five widely used PVTs: ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of character strengths on psychosocial outcomes after mild complicated to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN: Prospective study with consecutive enrollment. SETTING: A Midwestern rehabilitation hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Persons with mild complicated to severe TBI (N=65). INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Community Integration Measure, ...

Objective To investigate whether retrieval practice (RP) improves delayed recall after short and long delays in survivors of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) relative to massed restudy (MR) and spaced restudy (SR). Design 3(learning condition: MR, SR, RP)×2(delayed recall: 30min, 1wk) within-subject experiment. Setting Nonprofit medical rehabilitation research center. ...

Study identified baseline participant variables in the domains of demographics, medical/psychosocial history, injury characteristics, and post-injury functional status associated with longitudinal follow-up completeness among participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI) using the TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) National Database (NDB). The sample analyzed included 8,249 individuals enrolled in the TBIMS ...

Study surveyed people with spinal cord injury (SCI) to determine their priorities for brain-computer interface (BCI) applications and design features along with the time investment and risk acceptable to obtain a BCI. Forty people with SCI participated, including of 30 individuals identified from the SCI research registry who were ...

Article describes the background and development of the Spinal Cord Injury -- Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) measurement system, a spinal cord injury (SCI)-specific, patient-reported outcome measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) covering physical, emotional, and social domains of functioning. The SCI-QOL was developed using item response theory (IRT) ...

Article provides an overview of the clinical management of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness after acquired brain injury. The authors review consciousness-altering pathophysiological mechanisms, specific clinical syndromes, and novel diagnostic and prognostic applications of advanced neuroimaging and electrophysiological procedures. The article concludes with a provocative discussion of bioethical ...