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Long-term temperature-related morbidity after brain damage: survivor-reported experiences
Charmaine Childs1, Anthony K P Jones, Pippa J Tyrrell
1Clinical Neurosciences, School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Salford, UK. charmaine.childs@manchester.ac.uk
Primary Objective:
To determine whether temperature-related symptoms exist, long-term, in survivors of brain damage.
Research Design:
Scoping exercise.
Methods And Procedures:
A 'call for information', posted in the quarterly News bulletins of two major UK brain injury support groups, about any current or past temperature-related symptoms or problems that had developed since onset of brain damage.
Main Outcomes And Results:
Narratives from 41 survivors revealed the nature of temperature-related morbidity, ongoing, on average, for 8 years since brain damage. Twenty-five survivors reported problems specifically related to feelings of extreme heat; in a further eight, heat-related problems occurred with bouts of 'cold'. Feelings of extreme cold only were less common (n = 8). In 20 survivors, temperature problems had adverse effects on health and personal and social relationships.
Conclusions:
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first account of temperature-related problems in the form of narratives from survivors of a variety of brain injuries. The origin of abnormal somatic sensibility to temperature is currently unclear. It is plausible that the symptoms could be a 'variant' of the 'pain-thermoregulatory distress axis' well described after human stroke. In the meantime, apparently abnormal sensory and physical symptoms experienced by the survivors lack both explanation and remedy.
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