View clinical trials related to Traumatic Brain Injury.
Filter by:The main objective is to assess the feasibility of collecting and implementing a multidimensional evaluation in a sample of patients with a mild to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their relatives, evaluated at 6 months (primary outcome), and at 12 then 18 months post-injury (secondary outcomes).
The goal of this observational study is to test the association between baseline ventilatory parameters (in particular mechanical power (MP), mechanical power normalized to predicted body weight (MP/PBW) and driving pressure (DP) with the baseline neurological status (assessed through the Glasgow coma score) in adults patients under mechanical ventilation with acute neurological injury secondary to stroke, brain trauma or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The main question[s]it aims to answer are: 1. In patients with acute neurological injury under mechanical ventilation, is there a correlation between the acute neurological injury, assessed using the Glasgow scale on admission, and baseline ventilatory parameters? 2. In patients with acute neurological injury under mechanical ventilation, are the baseline ventilatory parameters altered at baseline?
TBI rehabilitation care transitions refer to the processes of preparing patients, families, and community-based healthcare providers for the patient's passage from inpatient rehabilitation to the home and community or to another level of care. Persons with TBI have heterogenous neurological impairment (cognitive and behavioral foremost, along with motor, sensory, and balance), that limits their functional independence and participation, and increases their risk for secondary medical conditions, injuries, rehospitalizations and early mortality
The study aims to inform the subsequent large-scale clinical trial focused on using telerehabilitation techniques and technologies to improve upper limb function and quality of life.
The purpose of this study is to assess a balance training program to see if it can be helpful to improve balance and avoid falls in people who have had traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). The study will involve three groups of research subjects: 1) TBI-intervention group, 2) TBI- non-intervention group and 3) the participants without disability group. The TBI intervention Group will participate in 10 robotic balance training sessions. Data will collected pre and post-training. TBI- non-intervention group will not receive any training. They will participate in two data collection sessions which are about 5 weeks apart. The participants without disability group will not receive any training. They will participate in one data collection session.
There is a paucity of knowledge about mechanisms behind mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) subgroup's sustained problems, and effective interventions that can alleviate this disabling condition. Persistent Post-concussive Symptoms (PCS) affect between 20% and 30% of individuals after mTBI. This Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) will investigate whether graded aerobic exercise has a positive effect on symptom burden (including exercise intolerance) and Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dysfunction in patients with PCS. This study will expand upon previous work on adolescents with sport-related concussion in the acute phase. It will cover a wider age group and will include patients with persisting symptoms, thus providing knowledge on whether a sub-symptom threshold aerobic exercise program will alleviate symptom burden in adult patients with PCS. Furthermore - looking into the relationship between mTBI and ANS function, this study is expected to contribute to a better understanding of the neurobiological factors involved in PCS. The results may also help developing targeted interventions to specific characteristics in persistent symptoms after mTBI.
The goal of this clinical study is to test feasibility of a motor-cognitive training program in patients after mild to severe traumatic brain injury in an acute hospitalization setting. The intervention is a step-based dual-task training, i.e. patients are presented with step patterns that they have to memorize and then execute in the tempo given by a metronome. Researchers will assess the feasibility of the motor-cognitive training regarding acceptance and safety, user evaluation of the training and training performance.
This randomized trial aims to determine the effectiveness a virtual wellness intervention program in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants will be randomized at enrollment into two groups: immediate treatment (IT) and delayed treatment (DT) group. This study will also provide insights into the impact of these intervention's components in helping emotional, physical, and nutritional outcomes post-injury in the context of social determinants of health (SDOH).
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes lifelong disability. Children with TBI often have difficulties in attention regulation and executive functions affecting their daily living. Need for rehabilitation is often long-lasting and there is an increasing demand for timely, cost-effective, and feasible rehabilitation methods, where the training is targeted to support daily life functional capacity. The use of Virtual Reality (VR) in the rehabilitation of children with attention and executive function deficits offers opportunities to practice skills required in everyday life in environments emulating real-life situations. The aim of this research project is to develop a novel effective VR rehabilitation method for children with deficits in attention, activity control, and executive functions by using a virtual environment that corresponds to typical everyday life. In this randomized control study, VR glasses are used to present the tasks, and the levels of difficulty are adjusted according to the child's progress. The researchers expect that; 1) Intensive training improves the attention regulation, activity control skills, and executive functions of the children in the intervention group 2)Training of executive skills with motivating tasks in a virtual environment that is built to meet challenging everyday situations transfers to the child's everyday life, 3)The duration of the training effect does not depend on the success of the VR training itself, but on how well the child adopts new strategies that make everyday life easier and how the parent is able to support the child's positive behaviour in everyday life.
The purpose of this study is to examine the safety and feasibility of using hyperpolarized metabolic MRI to study early brain metabolism changes in subjects presenting with head injury and suspected non-penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study will also compare HP pyruvate MRI-derived metrics in TBI patients with healthy subjects as well as Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients to better understand if metabolic Magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) can improve our ability to diagnose a TBI. The FDA is allowing the use of hyperpolarized [1-13C] pyruvate (HP 13C-pyruvate) in this study. Up to 15 patients (5 with TBI, 5 with SAH, and 5 healthy volunteers) may take part in this study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).