Essay for TBI

Stroke and TBI-TBI represent "traumatic brain injury". The term "mild" may be misleading, but the stroke is actually a mild form of TBI (MTBI). The severity of traumatic brain injury is defined as "mild" or "mild" according to some medical criteria, including when the victim loses consciousness or when the victim experienced oblivion after trauma (memory) It is "moderate" or "severe". . Some doctors in the brain measure the severity of symptoms after a concussion. Depending on the severity of brain injury, the effects include chronic pain, chronic fatigue, urinary incontinence, communication difficulties, lack of concentration, and other serious injuries. In addition, repetitive TBI injury is considered a major risk factor for CTE

The problem of chronic pain and TBI has become prominent because it occurs frequently among returnees of Iraq and Afghanistan (Gironda et al., 2009). Chronic pain is also common among 1.4 million Americans maintaining the TBI every year (Langlois, Rutland-Brown, & Thomas, 2004; Nampiaparampil, 2008). A review of 23 chronic pain studies after TBI including civilians and combatants (Nampiaparampil, 2008) showed a prevalence of chronic disease of 57.8%.