This month's issue of Brain Injury, the official journal of the
International Brain Injury Association, was devoted to pediatric
traumatic brain injury. Multiple research studies were conducted
and included in the journal. Below are summaries of some of these
studies:
A study out of Sydney, Australia compared children who sustained
traumatic brain injury to children who sustained orthopedic
injuries. Specifically, researchers examined objective sleep
outcomes in 23 children ages 5-15 who sustained moderate to severe
traumatic brain injury. This group was compared to 13 children who
sustained an orthopedic injury. The primary measurements were
objective sleep measures using actigraphy watch, and secondarily a
subjective sleep measure and fatigue questionnaires. The findings
showed “evidence of objective and subjective sleep
disturbance in children with moderate to severe TBI, but these two
types of sleep measures were not related. It is possible the
distinct
