What can i do to improve the outcome of my head injured family member?
1. Cognitive Rehabilitation An index measuring the degree to which head injured survivors were using the compensatory strategies which had been taught in their TBI rehabilitation program was the best...
View ArticleWhat will be the outcome?
The following are the main factors that have been found to predict long-term outcome for head injured survivors: (a) Severity of cognitive deficits including memory and learning impairment,...
View ArticleHow do we know how bad the head injury is?
A survivor’s degree of consciousness is often used to determine the severity of his/her brain injury. Instruments such as the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) use the survivor’s visual, motor, and verbal...
View ArticleWhen will he/she wake up?
A head injury will frequently impact on the survivor’s initial level of consciousness. Level of consciousness is a continuum ranging from full alertness, drowsiness, lethargy, daze-like symptoms, to...
View ArticleWhat are the effects of a traumatic brain injury?
Any head injury can cause disruption of brain functions and can result in physical, cognitive, and psychosocial/emotional/interpersonaI impairment. Strokes often cause physical deficits such as...
View ArticleWhat is a traumatic brain injury?
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is defined as sudden, permanent damage to the brain caused by external, mechanical forces (e.g., a blow to the head suffered during a motor vehicle accident). Thus, there...
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