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The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering rehabilitation medicine as it relates to head injuries. It was established in 1986 and is published by Wolters Kluwer. It the official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America. The editor-in-chief is John D. Corrigan (Ohio State University).
The NFL has implemented rule changes to reduce collisions to the head [6] and has sought to improve helmet design. [7] Critics respond that significant head trauma is inevitable for bigger, faster players in tackle football [ 8 ] and that helmets are of limited use in preventing a player's brain from crashing into their skull, which is the ...
A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain. The terms traumatic brain injury and head injury are often used interchangeably in the medical literature. [ 1 ] Because head injuries cover such a broad scope of injuries, there are many causes—including accidents, falls, physical assault, or traffic accidents—that ...
X-rays are still used for head trauma, but evidence suggests they are not useful; head injuries are either so mild that they do not need imaging or severe enough to merit the more accurate CT. [80] Angiography may be used to detect blood vessel pathology when risk factors such as penetrating head trauma are involved. [10]
A coup-contrecoup injury occurs when the force impacting the head is not only strong enough to cause a contusion at the site of impact, but also able to move the brain and cause it to displace rapidly into the opposite side of the skull, causing an additional contusion. open head injury; closed head injury
Closed-head injuries are caused primarily by vehicular accidents, falls, acts of violence, and sports injuries. [4] Falls account for 35.2% of brain injuries in the United States, with rates highest for children ages 0–4 years and adults ages 75 years and older. [3] Head injuries are more common in men than women across every age group. [3]
Nearly 20% of the more than 2.5 million U.S. service members (SMs) deployed since 2003 to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have sustained at least one traumatic brain injury (TBI), predominantly mild TBI (mTBI), [90] [91] and almost 8% of all OEF/OIF Veterans demonstrate persistent post-TBI symptoms more than ...
Through her work, she realized there wasn't a comprehensive book on major disorders caused by brain dysfunction and injury, or the techniques, tests and procedures to evaluate patients. Published first in 1976, her book Neuropsychological Assessment was the first comprehensive text on the subject and touted a flexible approach to treating ...