TBI & the Military: Brain Trauma Foundation with Alan Quasha
Many people don’t realize that one of the major injuries that our troops experience is traumatic brain injury. More than 11,800 troops have been seriously injured in an IED attack, and thousands more have been close enough that they’ve suffered from concussions. As the Brain Trauma Foundation with President Alan Quasha reports, veteran advocates today believe that between 10 and 20% of Iraq veterans have some degree of TBI. This equates to 150,000-300,000 people.
When analyzing only wounded troops, this rate rises to 33%. The Brain Trauma Foundation with Alan Quasha, supported by a grant from the Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center, created important guidelines for the management of combat related head trauma in 2005.
Certainly, more research is needed about TBI and the military in order to keep our troops safe, to help them to survive their injuries, and to rehabilitate them back into civilian life.
