Trouble for Veterans
Another study focuses on a group that is no stranger to physical injuries, military veterans. In my past “Medicine and the Mind,” college class, I learned that it is extremely difficult to diagnose TBI in soldiers while in combat due to the need for a medical diagnosis and very limited resources out in the battle field. Due to this fact, after soldiers leave the line of duty, those that have suffered from a TBI can have future neurological discrepancies. One of many experiments to investigate effects of TBI on veterans was conducted by Dr. Allison Kaup and her team studying the “neuropsychological profile of lifetime traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older Veterans.” The participants were 169 veterans, between the ages of 51 and 97, that were mostly, 89%, male and Caucasian, 88 with lifetime TBI and 81 without TBI, living in Veterans’ retirement homes in independent residence (Kaup et al. 2017). The cognition of the veterans was assessed by …show more content…
A cross sectional study was done on veterans over the age of 50 with 78 having TBI prior and 85 that never experienced TBI and all have no prior diagnosed PD. The purpose of this study was to determine whether “remote TBI is a risk factor for motor dysfunction on exam and functionally relevant motor dysfunction in day-to-day life among independently living elders without PD” (Gardner et al, 2017). To characterize these different aspects of motor function on exam, the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Motor Examination was performed and a global motor score and four domain scores (tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and posture/gait) were scored (Gardner et al, 2017). Additionally, the functionally relevant motor dysfunction was assessed via self-report of falls within the past year (Gardner et al,
Another study focuses on a group that is no stranger to physical injuries, military veterans. In my past “Medicine and the Mind,” college class, I learned that it is extremely difficult to diagnose TBI in soldiers while in combat due to the need for a medical diagnosis and very limited resources out in the battle field. Due to this fact, after soldiers leave the line of duty, those that have suffered from a TBI can have future neurological discrepancies. One of many experiments to investigate effects of TBI on veterans was conducted by Dr. Allison Kaup and her team studying the “neuropsychological profile of lifetime traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older Veterans.” The participants were 169 veterans, between the ages of 51 and 97, that were mostly, 89%, male and Caucasian, 88 with lifetime TBI and 81 without TBI, living in Veterans’ retirement homes in independent residence (Kaup et al. 2017). The cognition of the veterans was assessed by …show more content…
A cross sectional study was done on veterans over the age of 50 with 78 having TBI prior and 85 that never experienced TBI and all have no prior diagnosed PD. The purpose of this study was to determine whether “remote TBI is a risk factor for motor dysfunction on exam and functionally relevant motor dysfunction in day-to-day life among independently living elders without PD” (Gardner et al, 2017). To characterize these different aspects of motor function on exam, the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Motor Examination was performed and a global motor score and four domain scores (tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and posture/gait) were scored (Gardner et al, 2017). Additionally, the functionally relevant motor dysfunction was assessed via self-report of falls within the past year (Gardner et al,