The Validity-10 scale was recently developed to screen for symptom exaggeration in patients following traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, it has only been validated on patients with TBI largely in the chronic phase of recovery. The influence of time since injury on the Validity-10 scale was investigated in 2,661 male servicemembers with TBI presenting to six U.S. Defense and Veterans Brain I...

during the last few decades, focus of rehabilitation outcome has been redirected to the lifetime monitoring of quality of life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in quality of life perceptions between participants with spinal cord injury and participants of typical population.this cross-sectional controlled study of 100 adults aged 18-65 years was based on two questio...

INTRODUCTION " A permissible weekly dose is a dose of ionizing radiation accumulated in one week of such magnitude that, in the light of present knowledge, exposure at this weekly rate for an indefinite period of time, is not expected to cause appreciable bodily injury to a person at any time during his lifetime." This is a well-known recommendation as to the permissible dose from external sour...

Awards for pain and suffering and other non-economic losses account for over half of all damages awarded under third-party auto insurance bodily injury settlements. This paper hypothesizes that insurers use general damage awards to reduce the incentive to submit exaggerated claims for specific damages for injuries and lost wages. Consistent with this hypothesis, the paper finds evidence using d...

C O N TE N TS In France today, heart disease and cancer are the most frequent pathologies affecting older adults. Their health can also be suddenly compromised by an unexpected accident. While not lethal in the majority of cases, such accidents can cause bodily injury. Injuries are more difficult to count than deaths (Box 1), but have been monitored more effectively over the last ten years than...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors relating to return to work (RTW) following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). PARTICIPANTS One hundred and nine patients (Age: M = 37.4 years, SD = 13.2; 52.3% women) who sustained an mTBI. DESIGN Inception cohort design with questionnaires and neuropsychological testing completed approximately 3 to 4 weeks postinjury. SETTING Emergency Department of Tampere ...

BACKGROUND Dissociation is a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal, subjective integration of one or more aspects of psychological functioning, including memory, identity, consciousness, perception, and motor control. A limited number of studies investigated combat-related dissociation. OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between dissociative sy...

Third party liability insurance settlements are by their nature the result of negotiations between the claimant, or his/her representative, and a representative of the insurer, acting on behalf of the policyholder (Ross, 1980). When substantial non-economic or general damages are expected in any settlement, such as in auto bodily injury liability claims, the nature of the settlement process mus...

  Background: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a lower health related quality of life (HRQOL) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. The aim of this study was to compare HRQOL between two groups of veteran and non-veteran SCI patients.   Methods : All male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete SCI before 1988 and were residents of Tehran province (I...