This article discusses how to access information on the internet and evaluate the information obtained. This discussion will be helpful to professionals beginning to access the TBI research literature on the internet, as well as family members and individuals with brain injury learning how to access and evaluate relevant information. That percentage does not include those who access the Web at their public libraries, through their computer labs at school or in households of friends and relatives.
Internet searches can save money and time.
More family members and individuals with brain injury are frequently turning to the internet for information about TBI and rehabilitation alternatives. Clinicians also use the internet for their own research needs on TBI, and to answer continuing questions from individuals with brain injury and family members. The Internet also can be used to research appropriate clinical services. After sustaining a traumatic brain injury in the late 1970s, the individual spent several years in his parents' home. The parents' age and declining health, however, prohibited their continuing care for the individual who also was exhibiting continuing behavioral problems.