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What independent factors best predict return to work 1 year following a severe TBI? According to a multi-center study carried out in Paris on 134 survivors of severe TBI (mean age of 34) they are highest level of education pre-injury, age at time of injury, and injury severity including length of stay in
In June 2013 Dr. James Burk published a study of 436,630 traumatic brain injury patients over five years which indicates a relationship between TBI and increased risk of stroke. The study found a greater association of stroke in people under the age of 50 who had suffered a traumatic brain injury. This indicates
According to Moshe Roth, a board certified optometrist in New Jersey, vision problems are very common after TBI as a result of damage to the brain or cranial nerves such as the optic nerve. These problems may escape rapid detection because other problems (such as severe headache, difficulty concentrating, poor memory or insomnia)
Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms of TBI, whether the TBI is mild, moderate or severe. Aside from making you fatigued, what other effects does sleep loss have? Surprisingly inability to sleep at night prevents the brain from making the new myelin that is required to coat brain cell axons and
Doctors often recommend cognitive rehabilitation — a set of therapies to retrain patients’ brains and restore lost brainpower — beyond what insurance companies are willing to cover. Getting rehab right is crucial: A traumatic brain injury can rob patients of memory, thinking skills, emotional regulation and even motor control of their arms and
In cases where a bike rider suffered a TBI from a fall or crash caused by someone else’s negligence but the rider was not wearing a helmet, the defense will always claim that but for the rider’s failure to wear a helmet the TBI would not have occurred. Sometimes this is blatantly false,
More than half of all people who suffer a traumatic brain injury will become depressed in the year after the injury, a rate eight times higher than in the general population, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And only about 45 percent of those who do
In the United States if a person loses consciousness due to a brain injury his driver’s license can be suspended. However, many physicians will not report the incident to the DMV unless they believe the loss of consciousness is likely to recur as when a patient has epilepsy. Therefore, it is often up
Some people who sue for a TBI incurred in one incident (such as a car crash) have had prior TBIs. Even though the most recent TBI is not severe, the person may undergo radical changes in personality (exhibiting impulsivity, explosive anger, and violence) or mood (depression and hopelessness). What could be going on
Dr. Wayne Gordon, an expert in the medical rehabilitation of persons with TBI, says that approximately 7-8% of people in the U.S. are living with the residuals of a TBI and many of them do not even know it. According to Dr. Gordon (who is the director of the Brain Injury Research Center