Acquired Brain Injury
Occurs after birth and includes injuries caused by external physical forces and those caused by internal insults to the brain.
What is an Acquired Brain Injury?
Two groups with the highest rates of falls
What are 0-4 years old and those aged 75 and older?
Severity and type of injury, comorbidities, medical complications, expertise of medical treatment, referral patterns and biases of professionals along the continuum, family or patient treatment choice, availability of funding
What are factors that make the continuum of care not linear?
Gradually challenged federal, state, and local governments to develop more opportunities for people with disabilities to be served through cost-effective community-based services.
What is the Olmstead Decision?
The number of years longer people without brain injury live than those with brain injury
What is 7?
The most common cause of brain injury
What are falls?
Subpopulations disproportionately affected by brain injury
What are individuals who intersect with the criminal justice system, homeless, domestic violence, military, athletes and behavioral health/substance use disorder.
The accreditor of choice for brain injury rehab programs
What is CARF?
The agency that funds the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS).
What is the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)?
Brain injuries are the leading cause of this secondary condition in the young adult population.
What is Epilepsy?
Brain injury is often called this, because many of the problems that result, such as problems with memory and other thinking skills are not always immediately apparent.
What is a silent epidemic?
Can have either a brief or no loss of consciousness and its presentation may demonstrate vomiting, lethargy, dizziness, and inability to recall what happened.
What is a Mild TBI?
Examples are Auto insurance, worker's compensation insurance, and commercial insurance
What are private funding sources?
This organization, founded by families in 1980, stated out as the National Head Injury Foundation, which changed its name to this in 1995.
What is the Brain Injury Assocation of America?
This term was formerly known in the sports world as being "punch drunk" and in the medical field as dementia pugilistica.
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)?
When a blow to the head occurs, the initial contusion or laceration may occur directly beneath the point of impact and then contralateral to the site of impact.
What is a coup-contrecoup injury?
At any age, this group has higher rates of TBI-related deaths.
What are males?
This provides health care for more than 76 million low-income people throughout the United States.
What is Medicaid?
This remains the single most important piece of federal legislation for people with brain injuries.
What is the TBI Act?
What are Neuroendocrine disorders?
The categorization of brain injury into traumatic versus non-traumatic inherently related to this.
What is the etiology(cause) of the primary injury to the brain?
This group has the highest rates of TBI from motor vehicle accidents
What is the 15-24 year old age group?
The Act that set the foundation for the state vocational rehabilitation system.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This was established in 1987 to focus on developing and demonstrating a model system of care for people with TBI.
What is the TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) of Care?
People with a brain injury who sustain fractures, especially fractures of the long bones are at risk for this.
What is Heterotopic Ossification (HO)?