Citation

Makley MJ, Johnson-Greene L, Tarwater PM, Kreuz AJ, Spiro J, Rao V, Celnik PA. Neurorehabil. Neural Repair 2009; 23(4): 320-326.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, American Society of Neurorehabilitation, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1545968308325268

PMID

19171947

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Sleep disturbance is common in the subacute recovery phase following brain injury. A previous study from the authors' group found 68% of patients with closed head injury (CHI) had disrupted sleep on a rehabilitation unit. In the present study, the authors investigated whether improvement in sleep efficiency correlates with duration of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) after CHI. METHODS: Fourteen CHI patients were enrolled and followed prospectively. Mechanism of injury included motor vehicle accident, fall, and blunt assault. An actigraph was placed on each subject's wrist within 72 hours of admission to the rehabilitation unit and recorded data for the duration of their stay. A minimum of 7 days of continuous actigraphy data was obtained on all subjects. PTA was measured daily using the Orientation Log (O-LOG). RESULTS: Seventy-eight percent of subjects had mean week-1 sleep efficiency scores of

Language: en