Demos Publications has also made available a discount to IBIA members on Dr. Zasler’s new publication, Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice, a comprehensive, core textbook dealing with the full continuum of issues from acute care to community re-entry following traumatic brain injury.

The most exciting technique aimed at recovery of locomotor behavior following neurological damage combines the benefits of repetitive task specific training with stimulation of spinal stepping generators. Supported or lite gait therapy has been called by many names and successfully applied to a variety of disorders and patient functional levels in both chronic and acute settings.

Dear IBIA, I have often dealt with post-TBI patients who complain of dizziness.  A patient of mine was recently given a diagnosis of "post traumatic perilymphatic fistula".  I have never heard of this condition and cannot find much information on it, although I may be looking in the wrong places.  Please inform me, as well as, other readers, about this condition.  Also any information on dizziness in our clients with TBI would be appreciated.   

An estimated 75%-90% of the 1.4 million traumatic brain injury (TBI)- related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits that occur each year are concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI).

"Assessment" refers to the purposeful gathering of information on an individual, including clinical interview material, psychometric data, formal observations, and past medical records. Generally speaking, the purpose of an assessment is to generate a diagnosis, to provide direction for treatment planning, to assist in patient care, and to advance research efforts (Leon-Carrion, Taffee & Barroso y Martin, 2006).