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A Silent Epidemic: Minor Traumatic Brain Injury
In the United States, approximately 1.4 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Of those injuries, three out of four are minor TBI (mTBI) — a head injury that causes a temporary...
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A traumatic brain injury can instantly impact a person’s life
Traumatic brain injuries often occur when a victim suffers a violent blow to the head or when a foreign object penetrates his or her skull. For instance, TBIs are commonly suffered during severe car...
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Returning to work after a brain injury
Concussions in the National Football League (NFL) and military have received a lot of attention lately. But traumatic brain injury is a much larger issue, affecting at least 1.5 million Americans each...
View ArticlePT’s Movie Review on ESPN Also Educates on Consecutive TBI
An APTA member’s review of a new documentary on traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been featured on ESPN. Stephania Bell, PT, CSCS, OCS, senior writer for ESPN, gave a strong, positive review for the new...
View ArticleTBI Reauthorization Now Approved by Both Houses of Congress
Government-sponsored research and data collection on traumatic brain injury (TBI) has support from both houses of Congress, now that the US Senate has approved the TBI Reauthorization Act. The House...
View ArticlePrior TBI Diagnosis Increases Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
Recently, there has been attention on the association of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with progressive neurodegenerative diseases; such as, Parkinson’s disease. However, the association between mild...
View Article‘Concussion pill’ shows promise in pre-clinical pilot study
In 2016, funded by a $16 million grant from Scythian, the multidisciplinary Miller School team embarked on a five-year study to examine the effects of combining CBD (a cannabinoid derivative of hemp)...
View ArticleStudy reveals no benefit to costly and risky brain cooling after brain injury
The study, published today, in the Journal of the American Medical Association and presented at the same time at the Congress of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine in Paris by lead authors,...
View ArticleEmergency treatment guidelines improve survival of people with severe head...
A large study of more than 21,000 people finds that training emergency medical services (EMS) agencies to implement prehospital guidelines for traumatic brain injury (TBI) may help improve survival in...
View ArticleTraumatic brain injury patient lives to tell the tale
John Kaczmarczyk’s wife, Noelle, and their son, Dylan, were at home when they heard a thud. They went to investigate the sound and found the alarming cause. John, 58, was unconscious on the floor at...
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