Category Archives: Brain Injury Law
Pre-Injury Exercise History Predicts Brain Injury Rehabilitation Success
People who survive a severe traumatic brain injury spend considerable time in the hospital and often return home in a dramatically weakened physical state. For this reason, rehabilitation professionals often prescribe an exercise program in order to strengthen the patient’s
Hormones As Biomarkers For Traumatic Brain Injury
Biomarkers that identify the presence or severity of brain injury have been a topic of increased interest lately. Whereas traditional scans or neurological tests often fail to accurately identify injury, a biomarker may be a relatively fast and easy way
Verbal Memory After Traumatic Brain Injury
Verbal memory (memory for words) is divided into three stages: 1) encoding, in which information in first taken in, and related to the left prefrontal cortex; 2) consolidation, in which memories are stored for later use, and related to the
Appropriations Update: May 23, 2011
TBI Act This week, BIAA, in collaboration with NASHIA, submitted a letter to both the Senate and House appropriations committees signed by more than 40 national and state organizations to urge appropriators to sustain and bolster funding for programs authorized through the
Antidepressant Use After Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, And Spinal Cord Injury May Interfere With Recovery
Depression is such a common symptom after injury to the brain or spinal cord that antidepressant therapy has become almost compulsory. Although research on outcomes of antidepressant use after injury has been mixed, patients are still put on antidepressant therapy
A Case Study of Tics After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Tics are a movement disorder that produce involuntary contractions of muscle, and are commonly presented as eye blinks, shrugs, grunts, or sniffs. Tics usually develop in childhood; adult onset is very rare. In a recent case study, a young adult
BIAA, Rep. Giffords’ staff, Rep. Pascrell to Hold Media Briefing April 7
BIAA, Congresswoman Giffords’ staff and Congressman Pascrell will join together in a media briefing this Thursday, April 7, 2011, on affordable care act provisions for people with traumatic brain injury. Please see media advisory below. For more information, visit www.biausa.org.
Inexperienced Doctors Misjudge Glasgow Coma Scale Scores
The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used in triage in order to determine the traumatic brain injury patients who need a CT scan or neurosurgery. This is a critical decision process because early treatment of brain injury can greatly improve
A Membrane-Permeable Version of NAT is More Effective at Reducing Secondary Brain Damage
Secondary brain damage, the increase of swelling and pressure that occurs after a primary injury, leads to an increase in mortality in brain injury patients. Substance P is a neuropeptide that is released in abundance after brain injury, and is
The Future of Research in The Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
A tremendous number of soldiers are thought to have sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This number is thought to be even higher, but is difficult to verify because there is not yet an accurate, efficient diagnostic tool for
