TBI Publications

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation between selected acute injury and patient characteristics and subsequent return to work 1 to 5 years postinjury. DESIGN: Longitudinal design with prospectively collected data. Data were collected on patients at the time of injury and each year postinjury for up to 5 years. ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare types and frequency of medical complications and comorbidities associated with violence-related penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) as compared to violence-related blunt TBI. METHOD: Data were collected prospectively at four medical centers participating in the TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) of Care project. A total of 317 individuals ...

Study examining whether early neuropsychological testing is useful in predicting long-term productivity outcome (competitive employment or engagement in full-time education) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Fifteen neuropsychologic tests were administered before rehabilitation discharge to individuals with TBI who emerged from posttraumatic amnesia. Test scores were classified in the normal ...

Study to determine the role of agitation in the prediction of traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation outcomes. Participants were 340 consecutive patients admitted to an acute TBI rehabilitation unit. Outcomes examined included rehabilitation length of stay (LOS), discharge destination, Functional Independence Measure (FIM) at discharge, productivity at one-year follow-up, ...

Study examining the relative contributions of substance abuse history and violent etiology to the prediction of outcomes for individuals who sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) requiring inpatient rehabilitation. Participants were 351 individuals admitted consecutively to a specialized TBI rehabilitation unit. It was found that 80% of persons with ...

Study investigates factors associated with life satisfaction at 1 and 2 years after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Life satisfaction was measured primarily by the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) scores at year 1 and year 2 follow-up interviews. Results form the stepwise multiple regressions suggest that correlates of life ...

Study examining the effects of pre-injury history of arrest or history of substance abuse on neurobehavioral functioning after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 211 individuals with TBI who were seen for a follow-up neurobehavioral evaluation. Results indicate that participants with and without a history of pre-injury arrest differed ...

Presents ideas and questions to help brain injury survivors sort through the options of returning to their same job, finding a new job, or not going back to work at all. Rehabilitation professionals are encouraged to use the information to facilitate discussions with their clients. This document is included ...

Article with suggestions for family, friends, and caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) on ways they can help increase the likelihood of employment success as their family member with TBI returns to work. These include: recognize that brain injury happens to the whole family; consider that brain ...

Study evaluated annual trends in charges and lengths of stay for patients with brain injury in acute care and inpatient rehabilitation settings over a 7 year period. Average daily rehabilitation charges and acute care charges increased each year while length of stay decreased, with annual reductions averaging 2.25 days. ...

Study assessing outcomes of comprehensive day treatment (CDT), a milieu-oriented approach to postacute brain injury rehabilitation, and identifying outcome predictors. Participants were 97 program graduates and 17 dropouts with acquired brain injury. Outcome measures examined included measures of independent living status and vocational independence, the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory (MPAI-22), ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence and cause of rehospitalizations 1 and 5 years after traumatic brain injury. DESIGN: Descriptive statistics were computed in a prospective study of the cause and incidence of rehospitalizations at years 1 and 5 after injury. Analysis of variance and chi-square tests were used to ...

Presents an overview of diffuse axonal injury (DAI), the predominant mechanism in most cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI), through a review of textbooks, scientific presentations, and current ongoing research. Concepts discussed by the authors were developed from a combination of basic science concepts of cellular injury to the ...

Study to determine whether a lumbar support improves trunk repositioning error (RE), an aspect of proprioception, in persons with chronic low back pain (LBP). Ability to move the trunk to a predetermined target position was measured in 20 participants with LBP and 20 controls without LBP before and after ...

Article describing a movement retraining program for persons with neurological disability that uses computer-assisted exercise to reduce therapist treatment time. Data are from records kept by a physical therapist on the use of the Rehabilitation Workstation with two persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The article describes the Rehabilitation ...

Study examining the perspectives of survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) regarding the extent and nature of their recoveries over time. One-hundred fifty-seven consecutively hospitalized individuals with TBI (mean age 36) reported the extent and their recovery and barriers to full recovery at 1, 6, and 12 months post-injury. ...