Descriptive Characteristics and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Active Duty Military Personnel and Veterans With Disorders of Consciousness With Combat- and Noncombat-Related Brain Injury

Localized Tissue Surrogate Deformation due to Controlled Single Bubble Cavitation

“…By using this test system, we were able to approximately mimic the blast wave profile that would be transmitted to intracranial fluids. The high overpressure magnitudes and durations were within relevant ranges for blast injury 42,43 . Underpressure magnitudes were larger than those reported for blasts 1,44 but within a relevant order of magnitude for injury.…”

Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

“…Two recent retrospective reviews assessing DOC patients at acute rehabilitation revealed between 8% and 34% of patients had dysautonomia (Nakase-Richardson et al, 2013;Whyte et al, 2013). Two recent retrospective reviews assessing DOC patients at acute rehabilitation revealed between 8% and 34% of patients had dysautonomia (Nakase-Richardson et al, 2013;Whyte et al, 2013).…”

Concordance of Actigraphy With Polysomnography in Traumatic Brain Injury Neurorehabilitation Admissions

“…Visual inspection of the average PSG TST indicates less sleep compared with those without spasticity. Given the painful nature of spasticity and co-occurrence with greater injury severity (ie, DOC patients), 48,49 lower duration of sleep is not unexpected. Again, the small sample size and large SDs (ie, low power) may account for the lack of statistical significance between the ACG and PSG measures in this subpopulation.…”