Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

Gentleman, Douglas

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“…Nevertheless, as highlighted by participants’ accounts in this study, consideration of the theoretical recovery curve following brain injury (Gentleman, 2001) and a wish to maximise a person's recovery during periods of increased neuroplasticity should not be the only considerations clinicians reflect upon when deciding when clients should receive services. The data reported in this study show that personal factors that involve the consideration of time, such as consumers’ degree of acceptance or awareness of their brain injury and readiness to engage in therapy, are also important.…”

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“…Early rehabilitation following brain injury and re-admission to rehabilitation have been shown to be beneficial for physical improvement and return of self-care skills (Tuel, Presty, Meythaler, Heinemann, & Katz, 1992), for preventing secondary complications and for facilitating overall recovery (Mackay et al, 1992). Gentleman (2001) stated that recovery following brain injury is greatest in the first 3 months following injury. Therefore, clinicians see an obvious advantage in working with adults with brain injury during this period, rather than trying to ‘catch up’ later.…”

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Healthcare Consumers' Need for Brain-injury Services: The Critical Importance of Timing in Planning Future Services

O'Callaghan¹,

McAllister

Wilson³

2012

Brain Impairment

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Developing an awareness of the preferences of healthcare consumers is essential in determining the 'reality' of service provision, in planning the provision of brain-injury services and in service evaluation. Consumers should be given the opportunity to express satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the services they receive, offering their perceptions of barriers to service access, which could be removed once known. This article presents narratives of the healthcare journeys of three adults with a moderate to severe brain injury. The experiences of these participants were elicited through in-depth interviews. The aim of this article is to convey how the needs and experiences of adults with brain injury change throughout time, affecting their ability to access care over time. Previous research by the authors of this paper identified five factors that affect consumers' experiences of care: acceptance and readiness, support, advocacy, the right service at the right time and mismatched expectations. The fluidity and interaction of these factors through time is demonstrated in this article as facilitating and impeding access to services. The implications for clinicians in considering these factors when planning services for adults with moderate to severe brain injuries are explored.

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Healthcare Consumers' Need for Brain-injury Services: The Critical Importance of Timing in Planning Future Services

O'Callaghan¹,

McAllister

Wilson³

2012

Brain Impairment

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“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important cause of disability among adults, resulting in tremendous human and financial cost [1,2]. A TBI is caused by external forces, such as a blow, jolt or penetration to the head temporarily or permanently disrupting brain functions [3].…”

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Risk Taking in Hospitalized Patients with Acute and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

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Rehabilitation can improve cognitive deficits observed in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, despite rehabilitation, the ability of making a choice often remains impaired. Risk taking is a daily activity involving numerous cognitive processes subserved by a complex neural network. In this work we investigated risk taking using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) in patients with acute TBI and healthy controls. We hypothesized that individuals with TBI will take less risk at the BART as compared to healthy individuals. We also predicted that within the TBI group factors such as the number of days since the injury, severity of the injury, and sites of the lesion will play a role in risk taking as assessed with the BART. Main findings revealed that participants with TBI displayed abnormally cautious risk taking at the BART as compared to healthy subjects. Moreover, healthy individuals showed increased risk taking throughout the task which is in line with previous work. However, individuals with TBI did not show this increased risk taking during the task. We also investigated the influence of three patients’ characteristics on their performance at the BART: Number of days post injury, Severity of the head injury, and Status of the frontal lobe. Results indicate that performance at the BART was influenced by the number of days post injury and the status of the frontal lobe, but not by the severity of the head injury. Reported findings are encouraging for risk taking seems to naturally improve with time postinjury. They support the need of conducting longitudinal prospective studies to ultimately identify impaired and intact cognitive skills that should be trained postinjury.

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Mahalanobis distance tractometry (MaD-Tract) – a framework for personalized white matter anomaly detection applied to TBI

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Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Healthcare Consumers' Need for Brain-injury Services: The Critical Importance of Timing in Planning Future Services

Healthcare Consumers' Need for Brain-injury Services: The Critical Importance of Timing in Planning Future Services

Risk Taking in Hospitalized Patients with Acute and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Mahalanobis distance tractometry (MaD-Tract) – a framework for personalized white matter anomaly detection applied to TBI

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