{"id":20663,"date":"2019-11-25T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fescenter.org\/?page_id=20663"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:54:55","slug":"traumatic-brain-injury-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/research-and-participants\/clinical-trials\/traumatic-brain-injury-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Traumatic Brain Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tbi-page\">\n<section class=\"tbi-hero\" aria-label=\"Traumatic brain injury program hero\">\n<h2 class=\"tbi-hero-title\">Exploring New Approaches to Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury<\/h2>\n<div class=\"hero-layout\">\n<div class=\"hero-text\">\n<p class=\"tbi-intro-lead\">Developing novel, effective rehabilitative approaches for people who experienced a traumatic brain injury is the focus of FES Center research in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by external physical force that may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness, which results in an impairment of cognitive abilities or physical functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Mild TBI may cause temporary dysfunction of brain cells. More severe TBI can result in bruising, torn tissues, bleeding and other physical damage to the brain that can cause long-term complications or death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Primary illustration\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TraumaticBrainInjury_NewSite-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Traumatic brain injury illustration placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Symptoms of a TBI may not appear until days or weeks following the injury. A concussion is the mildest type of TBI. It can cause a headache or neck pain, nausea, ringing in the ears, dizziness, and tiredness. People with moderate or severe TBI may experience those symptoms, in addition to others including a persistent or worsening headache, repeated vomiting or nausea, convulsions or seizures, inability to awaken from sleep, slurred speech, weakness or numbness in arms and legs, and dilated eye pupils.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tbi-section-heading\">Research on Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury<\/h3>\n<p>FES investigators are currently focusing on two areas of research related to traumatic brain injury: a home-based rehabilitation program for Veterans to help with binocular vision after TBI, and the use of an enriched environment combining multiple therapies to help rehabilitate individuals with chronic traumatic brain injury. Get details on these studies below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div style=\"height: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"tbi-blocks-grid\" aria-label=\"Traumatic brain injury studies\">\n<article class=\"tbi-block-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.36.30-PM-scaled.png\" alt=\"Multimodal, Enriched Environment for Rehabilitation placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<h4>Multimodal, Enriched Environment for Rehabilitation<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"tbi-block-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"card-image\" src=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Home-based-vision-therapy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Home-based Vision Therapy placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/research-and-participants\/clinical-trials\/traumatic-brain-injury-program\/home-based-vision-therapy\/\">Home-based Vision Therapy<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Exploring New Approaches to Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury Developing novel, effective rehabilitative approaches for people who experienced a traumatic brain injury is the focus of FES Center research in this area. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by external physical force that may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22534,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31883,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20663\/revisions\/31883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}