Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury
-As with all rehabilitation, the goal is to help the person achieve the maximum degree of return to their previous level of functioning. Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation is best managed by a specialized interdisciplinary team of health professionals. More about traumatic brain injury rehabilitation
Sequelae of minor traumatic brain injury
-Post-traumatic amnesia–the period after a traumatic brain injury when a patient is unable to form ongoing memory is another useful indicator of the severity of injury. A brief period of post-traumatic amnesia (no longer than 60 minutes) is indicative of mild injury to the brain. More about minor brain injury
Children with Traumatic Brain Injury
More than one million children receive brain injuries each year. More than 30,000 of these children have lifelong disabilities as a result of the brain injury. More about children with T.B.I.
What is TBI?
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also called acquired brain injury or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. More on Traumatic Brain Injury
Skull Study Proves Bike Helmets Work against Head Injury
Experiments conducted with water-filled human skulls confirm that bike helmets that meet U.S. standards do protect kids from head injury. The researchers found that U.S. standard helmets offered the intended head-injury impact protection in falls originating from as high as three feet off the ground. More on Helmets and Head Injury
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and this year, CDC will again support the Brain Injury Association of America’s “Living with Brain Injury” campaign. The goals of this three-year campaign are to improve the lives of individuals living with brain injury, their families and caregivers, and to raise awareness about brain injuries nationwide. More on Brain Injury Awareness Month
Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research
TBI costs the country more than $56 billion a year, and more than 5 million Americans alive today have had a TBI resulting in a permanent need for help in performing daily activities. Survivors of TBI are often left with significant cognitive, behavioral, and communicative disabilities, and some patients develop long-term medical complications, such as epilepsy. More about Traumatic Brain injury research
Living with Traumatic Brain Injury: Post-Rehabilitation Recovery
Neuropsychological evaluation is useful in determining which cognitive functions are intact (or nearly so) and which are impaired after a traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, family members only occasionally have an opportunity to discuss test results. When such discussions do occur, the words used by the neuropsychologist may be quite technical and family members may not understand how things like “impaired initiation”, “left neglect”, or “apraxia” might be observed in daily life. more on Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Recovering from a Brain Injury
There is no question that maximizing recovery from head injury is expensive, time consuming, and emotionally draining. Like the rest of us, individuals who sustain head injuries rarely reach their full potential. At some point, the individual may “burnout” and decide that further efforts toward remediating deficits or acquiring additional skills is not worth the effort involved. The decision to temporarily suspend or terminate formal rehabilitation does not necessarily mean that recovery will stop or that skill levels will deteriorate. More on Brain Injury Recovery
Clinical Trials in Head Injury
Millions of head injuries occur each year. The World Bank estimates that approximately five million head injuries per year can be attributed just to traffic accidents worldwide. A sizeable fraction of the patients die, and a sizeable fraction survive with severe, long-term disabilities. Tissue damage associated with head injury include axonal injury, focal contusions and edema, and intracranial hematomas and swelling. To repair the original injury is acknowledged to be difficult, but the spread of secondary damage to the brain can possibly be contained. Read more about Clinical Trials in Head Injury
Behavioral consequences of traumatic brain injury
Often we forget that the consequences of a traumatic brain injury are more then cognitive and physical. Another aspect of brain injury that frequently goes untreated and causes tremendous difficulty for the individual and their family are the behavioral consequences. Read more on Behavioral consequences of traumatic brain injury
How long does it take for brain injury to occur?
Research by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident. Read more about brain injury occurrence
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