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Impairment at rehabilitation admission and 1 year after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: A prospective multi-center analysis.
Brain Injury
, Volume 21(7)
, Pgs. 673-680.
NARIC Accession Number: J53128. What's this?
ISSN: 0269-9052.
Author(s): Brown, Allen W.; Malec, James F.; Diehl, Nancy N.; Englander, Jeffrey ; Cifu, David X..
Project Number: H133A020507, H133A020516, H133A020524, H133A070013.
Publication Year: 2007.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Physical examination variables were analyzed for all subjects in the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems database from 1988 to 2002 that had data both at rehabilitation admission and at 1 year after injury. The variables examined included measures of audition, vision, swallowing, limb strength, limb coordination, limb tone, sitting balance, and standing balance. Results showed that standing balance was more commonly and severely impaired at admission and at 1 year, compared to the other examination variables. Impaired limb strength was most common and persistent over the study period compared to coordination and tone, but strength was normal in more than 80 percent of the subjects at 1-year follow-up. Dysphagia and impaired sitting balance present at admission largely resolved by 1 year. Impairment in audition and vision was uncommon and changed very little during the study period.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN INJURIES, FOLLOW UP, FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS, OUTCOMES, PHYSICAL EVALUATION, PHYSICAL FITNESS, REHABILITATION.
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Citation: Brown, Allen W., Malec, James F., Diehl, Nancy N., Englander, Jeffrey , Cifu, David X.. (2007). Impairment at rehabilitation admission and 1 year after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: A prospective multi-center analysis. Brain Injury, 21(7), Pgs. 673-680. Retrieved 9/6/2010, from REHABDATA database.
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