|
@CarolineCBaxter | |||||
|
TBI isn't a headache. As @RANDCorporation research has found, it's deadly serious and creates cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and physical problems that have life-long consequences for the servicemember and their family. Below is one of many reports.
rand.org/pubs/conf_proc… twitter.com/weijia/status/…
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Caroline Baxter
@CarolineCBaxter
|
22. sij |
|
Calling TBI as a "headache" is as typical as it is damaging: "common symptoms of mTBI...are often associated with other conditions or dismissed as transitory, making identification and appropriate diagnosis challenging." Farmer et al, 2016, p. 2.
rand.org/pubs/research_…
|
||
|
|
||
|
Caroline Baxter
@CarolineCBaxter
|
22. sij |
|
RAND also found that "Unpaid caregiving for individuals with TBI is most often provided by a spouse, parent or other blood relative[.] Depression among family caregivers occurs four times more frequently than in the general population."
rand.org/pubs/external_…
|
||
|
|
||
|
Caroline Baxter
@CarolineCBaxter
|
22. sij |
|
RAND found that roughly 1 in 5 of the 2.8 million servicemembers that have deployed since 2001 suffer from TBI, but a shortage of skilled healthcare workers have made treatment harder.
rand.org/pubs/research_…
|
||
|
|
||
|
Caroline Baxter
@CarolineCBaxter
|
22. sij |
|
So, no. #TBI isn't a headache. And we demean and damage those we put in harm's way by describing it as such.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grumpy Doc
@PragueorBrno
|
23. sij |
|
Important to note that TBI isn't a RAND thing, it's a medical thing. There's zero debate in the medical literature about what TBI is, symptoms/signs/longterm sequelae. Grandmas get it too. It's like diabetes, a medical problem. A big, bad severe one.
|
||
|
|
||