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Relationships between environmental factors and participation in adults with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional multi-center study - Wong AWK, Ng S, Dashner J, Baum MC, Hammel J, Magasi S, Lai JS, Carlozzi NE, Tulsky DS, Miskovic A, Goldsmith A, Heinemann AW.
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a model of environmental factors-participation relationships for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and spinal cord injury (SCI), and test whether this model differed across three diagnostic groups, as well ...
Source: SafetyLit - May 2, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Cognitive, emotional, and physical functioning as predictors of paid employment in people with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury - Wong AWK, Chen C, Baum MC, Heaton RK, Goodman B, Heinemann AW.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to examine demographic, cognitive, emotional, and physical factors that predict return to paid employment for people after neurological injury. METHOD: Four hundred eighty adults with stroke (n = 149), traumatic brain i...
Source: SafetyLit - March 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Feasibility study of problem-solving training for care partners of adults with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, burn injury, or stroke during the inpatient hospital stay - Juengst SB, Osborne CL, Holavanahalli R, Silva V, Kew CL, Nabasny A, Bell KR.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility of delivering an evidence-based self-management intervention, problem-solving training (PST), to care partners of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), burn injury, or stroke during...
Source: SafetyLit - February 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Effects of walkbot gait training on kinematics, kinetics, and clinical gait function in paraplegia and quadriplegia - Hwang J, Shin Y, Park JH, Cha YJ, You JSH.
BACKGROUND: The robotic-assisted gait training (RAGT) system has gained recognition as an innovative, effective paradigm to improve functional ambulation and activities of daily living in spinal cord injury and stroke. However, the effects of the Walkbot r...
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

A systematic review of the incidence, prevalence, costs, and activity/work limitations of amputation, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, and traumatic brain injury in the United States: a 2019 update - Lo J, Chan L, Flynn S.
OBJECTIVE: To present recent evidence on the prevalence, incidence, costs, activity limitations, and work limitations of common conditions requiring rehabilitation. METHODS: This was a systematic review. Medline (PubMed), SCOPUS, Web of Science, an...
Source: SafetyLit - May 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Relationship of perception with community attitudes about handling prehospital prevention of cervical injury risk in traffic accident patients in Watdek Village Maluku Tenggara - Anggraini NA, Ambarika R, Fawzi A, Sanaty BA, Sansuwito TB.
Accidents are the fourth cause of death, after heart disease, cancer and stroke, ±50 increases per year 100,000 population each year, 3% of the causes of death are due to direct spinal cord trauma, 2% due to multiple trauma. Attitudes or responses are ver...
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

The impact of a structured rehabilitation program for uninsured individuals - Draganich C, Berliner J, Sevigny M, Niehaus W, Philippus A, Payne L, Gerber D, Monden KR.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: Health disparities in rehabilitation have been identified in brain injury (BI), spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke, and amputee populations. A free clinic was established to serve such uninsured individuals. The purpose of this exploratory...
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Using sensor technology to measure gait capacity and gait performance in rehabilitation inpatients with neurological disorders - Hendriks MMS, Vos-van der Hulst M, Weijs RWJ, van Lotringen JH, Geurts ACH, Keijsers NLW.
The aim of this study was to objectively assess and compare gait capacity and gait performance in rehabilitation inpatients with stroke or incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) using inertial measurement units (IMUs). We investigated how gait capacity (what...
Source: SafetyLit - November 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Identifying priorities for balance interventions through a participatory co-design approach with end-users - Benn NL, Jervis-Rademeyer H, Benson K, Chan K, Lee JW, Inness EL, Wolfe DL, Alizadeh-Meghrazi M, Masani K, Musselman KE.
BACKGROUND: Most individuals living with spinal cord injuries/diseases (SCI/D) or stroke experience at least one fall each year; hence, the development of interventions and technologies that target balance control is needed. The purpose of this study was t...
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news