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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"time since injury"”.
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A radiographic assessment of pediatric fracture healing and time since injury
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Forensic Science, 2008
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Exploring factors that influence academic and behavioural outcome and the specific role of premorbid functioning, in a sample of children with severe traumatic brain injury
… who have sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrate a range of deficits in neurocognitive and behavioural domains (Anderson, Northam, Hendy, &Wrennall, 2001; Babikian & Asarnow, 2009; van’t Hooft, 2010). These impairments may have adverse effects on academic and behavioural …
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Working memory impairments in children and adolescents after traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children has been reported to result in deficits in a range of cognitive functions. Severity of injury, time since injury, and age at injury are some of the determinants of the range and extent of the cognitive deficits. Little prospective data exists on the extent …
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Prediction of Long-Term Intellectual and Neuropsychological Effects of Closed Head Injury in Infants and Children
… and neuropsychological outcome (1-7 years post-injury) in children (ages 1 week - 14 years at injury) with a history of closed head injury were investigated. Clinical indicators of injury severity including EEG reading and age at injury as well as ’H-MRS variables of NAA/Ch, Ch/Cr, and lactate …
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The efficacy of multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs for the traumatically brain-injured: A case study retrospective approach
… On the average, the sample was 6 years post-injury. Nine percent of the subjects had a formal psychiatric history, and 20% had a documented history of substance abuse prior to their accident. Only 49% of the adult subjects were employed on a full-time basis at the time of the accident, and …
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THE IMPACT OF CONCUSSION HISTORY ON THE NEAR REFLEX AND PUPILLARY LIGHT REFLEX IN VIRTUAL REALITY
Background: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a major public health concern, with over 1 million concussions estimated to occur each year in the United States alone. TBI impacts a diverse array of brain regions, producing a wide range of cognitive, physical, and psychological symptoms. Notably, …
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Biomedical and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Pain and Disability after Peripheral Nerve Injury
… the assessment of pain in patients with nerve injury. The results showed that only 52% of surgeons always evaluate pain in patients referred for motor/sensory dysfunction. Pain assessment frequently includes verbal response and assessment of psychosocial factors is infrequent. The second study …
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Organization of Narrative Discourse in Children and Adolescents with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury
… - Third Edition (WISC-III). Mean elapsed time since injury was 53 days. Recall of the story on the WRAML subtest was hand-recorded by the examiner. A supplemental scoring method accounted for differences in length, errors, and disorganization. Comparisons were made to a randomly selected …
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Caregivers of adults with closed head injury: A family systems perspective
… family member who had sustained a closed head injury. The subjects consisted of 32 parents/siblings and 17 spouses/significant others, ages 22 to 71 (M = 50), and of 18 female and 31 male head injured adults, who ranged in age from 18 to 77 (M = 33). The head injured family members were at …
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Attention Training following Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults: A Systematic Review
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant contributor to trauma-related mortality and morbidity globally. The high burden of disease for TBI is not only attributable to high incidence rates, but also due to the extensive and often severe post-TBI multi-domain sequelae, of which attentional …
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Descriptive analysis of the musculoskeletal case load referred for ultrasound imaging in an Auckland imaging practice : a case study
… included ‘location of pain’, ‘mechanism of injury’, ‘positive orthopaedic tests’, and ‘history of injury’. Only 27% of referrals provided a time since injury while the majority included other specific information such as clinical signs (e.g. ‘positive orthopaedic tests’). Overall, 35% of …
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Impact of wearing a robotic exoskeleton on gait parameters and muscle activity in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury
… activity in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether people with incomplete SCI would walk differently when they wore the EKSO. Specifically, the temporospatial gait parameters as well as kinematics and muscle …
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Knee function, movement pattern and knee osteoarthritis in males 14-16 years after an anterior cruciate ligament injury
… years after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. In the first study, 154 male subjects with a 14-year-old ACL injury were investigated. Self-reported knee function and radiographic signs of osteoarthritis were assessed. Most of the subjects (122/154) underwent knee radiographs, 78% of …
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A Comparison of Post-Injury Symptomatology and Recovery Following Concussion Versus Orthopedic Injury
… Concussion research has utilized orthopedic injury (OI) comparison groups to examine outcomes specific to concussion versus physical injury in general, due to the suggestion that preexisting, comorbid, and other injury-related factors influence post-concussion symptom reporting and recovery. …
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Factors associated with improvement in the gross motor function outcomes of children with acquired brain injury in a paediatric intermediate care facility in the Western Cape, South Africa: A descriptive study
… of gross motor function following acquired brain injury (ABI) in 17 participants, aged two to 14 years, receiving physiotherapy intervention at a paediatric intermediate care facility in the Western Cape, South Africa. Objectives of the study were to explore if factors such as age at injury, time …
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Workplace injuries, early opioid prescribing, and disability in Washington State
… workers, and (3) conducted an interrupted time series analysis to measure the effects of recent Washington State guidelines and rules on opioid prescribing among injured workers in a workers’ compensation setting. METHODS: In Chapter 2, we used data from Washington State’s WC system and …