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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mild traumatic brain injuries"”.
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An Empirical Investigation of Several Critical Psychometrical Issues in Neuropsychological Testing of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
Concussions can cause very serious injuries and with repetitive injuries increase the likelihood of serious consequences. There is an increased awareness of concussions, which has evolved into developing better measurement tools to study the effects including neuropsychological components. …
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Unveiling Gender Bias: An Examination of Healthcare Provider Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. Insights from Case Vignettes
<p>Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has gained public attention due to increased awareness of its neurological and physical effects, especially among male athletes. This study investigated how healthcare providers diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in male versus female patients by …
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and Their Implications on Changes in Event Related Potentials: A look into Visual Gating (P50)
<p>Concussions are a prevalent injury that affect a wide range of individuals. Commonly seen amongst individuals who play contact sports, there are many underlying factors that doctors and clinicians have yet to understand which include properties such as proper diagnosis standards or lasting …
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The end of season electroencephalographic and neuropsychological status of a team of secondary school rugby players : a comparison between very mild traumatic brain injury and a sedentary control group
Although the incidence and consequences of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in secondary school rugby has been well documented, little is known about the incidence and consequences of repetitive sub concussive injuries - the so called very mild traumatic brain injuries (vMTBI). The aim of this …
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The synthesis of childhood traumatic burden and executive dysfunction in young adults
… young adulthood and the incidence of one or more Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mild-TBI) while accounting for psychosocial variables like childhood or adolescent trauma. The literature to date revealed there are indications of possible long-term consequences to adaptive functioning resulting from …
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Persistent Effects of Paediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: The Role of Resilience
… This study examined the relationship of multiple mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) and psychological resilience to persistent post-concussion symptoms (PCS). Methods. Participants (N = 65), ages 8-18 years, who sustained multiple mTBIs (n = 24), a single mTBI (n = 22), or an orthopaedic injury …
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Resource allocation of the human brain : a competitive equilibrium approach
… study the resource allocation of a functioning brain is proposed. The mechanism is based on the theory of competitive equilibrium (CE), where users (cortical areas of the brain) are competing for a finite resource such as oxygenated blood. Concepts of CE are mathematically adjusted to be used …
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Electrical Brain Activity and The Examinee's Level of Effort During Performance Validity Tasks
… complaints are reported by individuals with mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. Limited studies have investigated how brain activity measured via Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) relates to mental effort during cognitive tasks. The purpose of this study was to investigate electrical …
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Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football: Evaluation of Practice Drills and Age and Weight Based Levels of Play
The estimated number of sport-related mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) occurring each year in the United States is 1.6 to 3.8 million with football having one of the highest rates of injury. Considerable research has been done to better understand concussions as well as quantifying head impact …
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Architecture and Rehabilitation: How Architecture can be Rehabilitative for its Patients, for its City
… center for patients in recovery from mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). It is located on the Columbia Medical School and New York Presbyterian Hospital campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The building is designed with three goals in mind: to provide a …
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Using Laboratory Impact Devices to Quantify Football Helmet Performance
… and 1905, there were 18 deaths and 159 serious injuries attributed to the sport. Following this, players began to wear protective equipment. The first use of a football helmet was in 1893, made of leather and designed to reduce the risk of skull fracture. Initially, football helmets were …
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Bridging the gap increasing awareness and understanding of the wounded warriors: a new and emerging client population
… as 11% to 23% of the service members may have mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) from injuries sustained by blasts or explosions (Shultz et al., 2011). The complexity of brain injuries is further complicated by associated physical and psychological injuries that were sustained in the context …
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Analysis of Linear Head Accelerations From Collegiate Football Impacts
Sports related concussions result in 300,000 brain injuries in the United States each year. The purpose of this study was to utilize an in-helmet system that measures and records linear head accelerations to analyze head impacts from collegiate football. The Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System is an …
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Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League
… that the corporation knew of the dangers of mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI) and actively attempted to subvert this knowledge. This paper employs an amalgamation of theories and research to comprehensively clarify and examine the controversies surrounding the National Football League and …
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CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF OCULAR TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING CONCUSSIONS
… observed problems in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Secondarily, subjective complaints of compromised vision and ocular motor functions are also sometimes reported in mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). Simple ocular/vision assessments such as near point of convergence …
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Determining the False Positive Rate of a Concussion Battery in Healthy Division I Collegiate Athletes
… accounts for 1.6-3.8 million concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) every year in the United States. Accurate assessment and diagnosis of concussions is critical to protect athletes from further injury. The Fourth International Conference on Concussion in Sport Consensus …
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Specialist Healthcare Services for Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) affect over a million people in England and Wales annually. While most individuals recover spontaneously within days to weeks, a significant proportion experience persistent symptoms that last months to years after injury. These symptoms are complex and …
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Characterising In Vivo Brain Function Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most complex disease in the most complex organ and a public health emergency. Sometimes called a silent epidemic, there are at least 50 million TBIs each year globally. This incidence translates to half the world’s population having at least one TBI in their …
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A case study of occupational therapists serving military personnel: identifying therapeutic approaches to be considered when assessing the occupational performance of military service members with mild traumatic brain injury
… of military service members (MSMs) with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) utilize available assessment tools and techniques to conduct assessments with regards to the uniqueness of military culture. Qualitative data was collected through face-to-face and phone interviews with three …