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Table 2 Medical status

From: The feasibility of using haptic devices to engage people with chronic traumatic brain injury in virtual 3D functional tasks

Severity of TBI

Severe

  9

Moderate

  3

Mild

7

  

Glasgow score

Range

4–14

      

Years from injury

Mean

  10

Range

1–41

    

Hospitalization for

Neuro. Cond.

  13

Rehab.

  11

    

Causes of injury

Fall

  9

MVA

  7

Blast

2

Sport

1

Reported pain level

Severe

  6

Moderate

  7

Low

6

  

(with usual medic.)

        
  1. Note that severity of TBI is measured using the following criteria. Mild TBI: Brief loss of consciousness, usually a few seconds or minutes; Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) for less than 1 hour of the TBI; Normal brain imaging results. Moderate TBI: Loss of consciousness for 1–24 hours; PTA for 1–24 hours of the TBI; Abnormal brain imaging results. Severe TBI: Loss of consciousness or coma for more than 24 hours; PTA for more than 24 hours of the TBI; Abnormal brain imaging results.