Janet M. Powell

TL;DR: In patients with long-term upper-limb deficits after stroke, robot-assisted therapy did not significantly improve motor function at 12 weeks, as compared with usual care or intensive therapy.

TL;DR: The results provide representative estimates of long-term morbidity in patients with TBI involving intracranial lesions and related to functional status and neuropsychologic functioning, but not to emotional or QOL measures.

TL;DR: The diagnosis of mild TBI was frequently absent from ED medical records despite patients reporting findings consistent with a mild T BI diagnosis when interviewed by study personnel, suggesting that asking a few targeted questions of ED patients with likely mechanisms of injury could begin to improve diagnosis and, in turn, improve patient management and the accuracy of estimates of Mild TBI incidence.

TL;DR: Bell et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the effect of scheduled telephone intervention on outcome after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared with standard follow-up at 1 year postinjury.

TL;DR: Telephone counselling, focusing on symptom management, was successful in reducing chronic symptoms after MTBI and improves functioning at 6 months.