2012
DOI: 10.1155/2012/625621
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Working with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Voices from the Field

Abstract: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also known as concussion, is an emerging public health issue in the United States. The estimated annual 1.2 million individuals who sustain this injury face a range of cognitive, psychological, and physical consequences for which rehabilitation protocols are being developed and implemented. On the frontlines of this developing area of rehabilitation work are professionals in a range of therapeutic settings whose practice wisdom has yet to be shared in the professiona… Show more

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“…This is particularly important given the number of potential factors that can influence employment after concussion. 16 17 Data from Donker-Cools et al , 17 for instance, suggest larger employers are more able to keep those who have sustained brain injuries in work compared with smaller employers. Furthermore, since our data did not include health-related data such as past psychiatric history, we cannot exclude that exposure and control groups differed in health-related aspects and that these differences biased our results, that is, that an individual left the workforce for a concussion-unrelated cause like a psychiatric disease triggered by the stress of a concussion event.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is particularly important given the number of potential factors that can influence employment after concussion. 16 17 Data from Donker-Cools et al , 17 for instance, suggest larger employers are more able to keep those who have sustained brain injuries in work compared with smaller employers. Furthermore, since our data did not include health-related data such as past psychiatric history, we cannot exclude that exposure and control groups differed in health-related aspects and that these differences biased our results, that is, that an individual left the workforce for a concussion-unrelated cause like a psychiatric disease triggered by the stress of a concussion event.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To our knowledge, this is the first study specifically exploring salary loss between groups of injury severities. The definition of mTBI is ambiguous, with commissioners underestimating cognitive impairment [47]. This may lead to overestimation of vocational abilities.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With the move towards the use of precision medicine and an individualised treatment approach, the ability to distinguish between people who have experienced a mild-TBI, who go on to experience persistent symptoms and those who do not is urgently needed. Additionally, understanding likely prognosis and timeframes for recovery have been found to be important to help people understand their injury and facilitate recovery (Buck, Laster, Sagrati, & Kirzner, 2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%