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View article: Improving Register Ascertainment of Children With Post‐Neonatally Acquired Cerebral Palsy Through Health Service Partnerships
Improving Register Ascertainment of Children With Post‐Neonatally Acquired Cerebral Palsy Through Health Service Partnerships Open
Background The New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Cerebral Palsy (CP) Register is a database of clinical and demographic information from children with CP. A child with CP resulting from an insult to the developin…
View article: Measuring behavioural disturbances exhibited by children and adolescents in post‐traumatic amnesia: Development of a scale
Measuring behavioural disturbances exhibited by children and adolescents in post‐traumatic amnesia: Development of a scale Open
Behavioural disturbances are often observed, but (to our knowledge) not systematically assessed, in children who are in post‐traumatic amnesia (PTA) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Therefore, we aimed to develop a prototype scale t…
View article: Post-traumatic amnesia: a scoping review & content analysis of behavioral disturbances
Post-traumatic amnesia: a scoping review & content analysis of behavioral disturbances Open
Our study revealed that while standardized assessments of behavior of patients in PTA are often limited to agitation, clinical descriptions include a range of behavioral disturbances. Our study highlights a significant gap in the systemati…
View article: Predictive validity of the Westmead Post‐Traumatic Amnesia Scale for functional outcomes in school‐aged children who sustained traumatic brain injury
Predictive validity of the Westmead Post‐Traumatic Amnesia Scale for functional outcomes in school‐aged children who sustained traumatic brain injury Open
The Westmead Post‐Traumatic Amnesia Scale (WPTAS) is routinely used for the assessment of post‐traumatic amnesia (PTA) in children who sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yet, the WPTAS' predictive validity for functional outcomes is l…
View article: Chemosensory Loss during a Traumatic Brain Injury Suggests a Central Pathway for the Rehabilitation of Anosmia
Chemosensory Loss during a Traumatic Brain Injury Suggests a Central Pathway for the Rehabilitation of Anosmia Open
Currently, no method has been developed for rehabilitating olfaction in anosmic patients following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Here a method for rehabilitation is described which is based on a recent finding that the human posterior py…
View article: Longitudinal Fibular Deficiency: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Lower Limb Function of Children and Young People with That of Unaffected Peers
Longitudinal Fibular Deficiency: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Lower Limb Function of Children and Young People with That of Unaffected Peers Open
Longitudinal fibular deficiency (LFD), or fibular hemimelia, is congenital partial or complete absence of the fibula. We aimed to compare the lower limb function of children and young people with LFD to that of unaffected peers. A cross-se…