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For the first couple of days, your doctor will probably suggest relative rest, which means you need to steer clear of some physical and cognitive (thinking) activities that could make things worse. Your doctor will let you know when it’s safe to go back to school, work, or your other ...
Most broadly speaking, a focus on resilience means departing from deficit-centered approaches and moving towards interventions that take a strength-oriented model, “building what’s strong” rather than “fixing what’s wrong.” While understanding risk factors remains important, resilience-focused ...
Objective: The recent movement to apply evidenced-based approaches to medical and rehabilitation care has increased the importance of approximating outcomes as early in the recovery process as possible. The relationship between injury severity and outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI), however, ...
Using CatWalk XT to analyze variations in gait performance in adolescent mice Rodents are the most common model organisms in biomedical research. Automated gait analysis provides a precise and objective means of analyzing behavioral and physiological changes in rodent models. Read this blog post Con...
The scale bar illustrates the means ± SEM percentages of neuron-specific enolase (NSE from different groups. ###p < 0.001 compared to the sham group, ***p < 0.01 compared to the TBI group, and $P < 0.05 represents significant difference between TBI + CAR and TBI...
The term “herx” has been adopted by both the LLMD (Lyme-literate medical doctor) community and the Lyme patient community and has evolved into a generic, non-clinical term that means discomfort or worsening of symptoms that occurs multiple times throughout the course of antibiotic treatment. ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause a wide variety of motor, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and medical problems. Rehabilitation following TBI is, therefore, a complex endeavor requiring a team approach involving physicians, nurses, neuropsychologi
"The prospect of addressing sleep disorders as a means to enhance recovery processes and prevent adverse cognitive outcomes should not be ignored," said Mollayeva, associate director, Acquired Brain Injury Lab, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. ...
(A-D) Means ± SE (A) Left EC thickness stratified by the presence of the ε4 allele and mTBI diagnosis (ε4- control = 95, ε4 + controls = 33, ε4- mTBI = 375 and ε4 + mTBI = 128). Among controls, the thickness of the left EC was ...