The aim of this study was to understand participants’ experiences of financial management after acquired brain injuries. Participants were included if they had a moderate to severe acquired brain injury at least one year earlier, 18 years or older, living in the community, and reported having primary or joint responsibility for financial management tasks before […]
Executive function deficits are the most prevalent after the injury for people with a TBI. This makes sense because executive functions are commonly processed in the brain’s frontal lobe, which is particularly susceptible to injury by striking the skull and/or the bony ridges of the skull. In addition, the white matter connections of the frontal […]
This scheduling task requires a person to use various executive function skills, including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.
This resource provides education on the hierarchy of decision-making for the successful use of time pressure management (TPM) and how to train patients to use TPM to compensate for slowed information processing speed.
This resource provides basic education about incentive spirometry, including who should use an incentive spirometer, its benefits of use, how to use it, and normative values.
The gold standard for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), but the number of people who actually utilize these machines can be low for a variety of reasons. For example, people who had a stroke may also be more sensitive to wearing the mask or have difficulty placing the mask with hemiplegia. Poststroke OSA […]