By. Victor W. Mark, MD, Edward Taub, PhD, Gitendra Uswatte, PhD, Khurram Bashir, MD, MPH, Gary R. Cutter, PhD, Camille C. Bryson, MS, PT, Staci Bishop-McKay, BS, and Mary H. Bowman, OTR/L Impaired mobility is a major cause for reduced quality of life in multiple...
You forget things – names of people, where you parked your car, the place you put an important document, and so much more. Some experts tell you to dismiss these episodes. “Not so fast”, says Dr. Gary Small, one of the nation’s leading experts...
Because the brain helps regulate many of our daily functions and body systems to survive, many things in your life may change after a head injury. Memory and reaction time is compromised but other behavioral functions can be affected as well such as social isolation...
It could be possible that past concussions are still affecting you. Many factors play into how your brain injury may be affecting you today such as diet, activity level, genetics, previous mental illnesses, stress levels, where you live, and current medications. Not...
The high variability in mTBI recovery creates a prognosis that is widely unknown and unstable. In a literature review presented by Levin and Diaz-Arrastia (2015), one source found that confusion could clear within the first day after the injury and post-concussion...
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also known as concussion, is caused by a physiological disruption in the brain function and can result in impairment of a myriad amount of functions. These injuries can be incurred by a blow to the head commonly found in violent...
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