MEDICAL PROBLEMS IN TBI: OTHER MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

     In this section you will find information on some of the complications that may occur following TBI: heterotopic ossification (HO) and spasticity.

Based on Brain Injury Patient Care and Education Manual, by Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital; Neuro section of the Trauma Manual, Jackson Memorial Hospital; and Recovering from Head Injury; a Guide for Patients, by Nova University Neuropsychology Service, and edited for PoinTIS by the Louis Calder Memorial Library of the University of Miami School of Medicine and the PoinTIS Advisory Committee, and on Rehabilitation of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury, NIH Consensus Statement 1998 Oct. 26-28.