Comparative effectiveness of a brief intervention for alcohol misuse following traumatic brain injury: A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose/objective: Compare the effects of an adapted Screening, Education, and Brief Intervention (Adapted SBI) for alcohol misuse following traumatic brain injury (TBI) to a Screening and Education with Attention Control (SEA) condition.

Study Design: A single-masked, parallel group, randomized controlled trial was conducted with 58 participants who were 18 and older, sustained a TBI requiring inpatient rehabilitation, had a history of alcohol misuse, were English-speaking, cleared posttraumatic amnesia, were free of language impairments precluding participation in the intervention, and who provided informed consent. Outcomes were collected at 3, 6, and 12 months postdischarge.

Video Game Rehabilitation for Outpatient Stroke (VIGoROUS): protocol for a multi-center comparative effectiveness trial of in-home gamified constraint-induced movement therapy for rehabilitation of chronic upper extremity hemiparesis.

Background: Constraint-Induced Movement therapy (CI therapy) is shown to reduce disability, increase use of the more affected arm/hand, and promote brain plasticity for individuals with upper extremity hemiparesis post-stroke. Randomized controlled trials consistently demonstrate that CI therapy is superior to other rehabilitation paradigms, yet it is available to only a small minority of the estimated 1.2 million chronic stroke survivors with upper extremity disability.

A review of the use and psychometric properties of the Cognistat/Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination in adults post-cerebrovascular accident.

This Rehabilitation Measures Database summary provides a review of the psychometric properties of the Cognistat/Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination in individuals with cognitive impairment. A full review of the Cognistat/Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination as well as reviews of over 300 other instruments can be found at www.rehabmeasures.