Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in a broad range of changes in a person’s abilities. It can impact thinking skills (cognition), how a person feels and acts (behaviors) and can cause a broad range of physical symptoms. All of these changes can interact with one another to produce issues that are unique to the person injured.  Some of the more common changes are listed below:

 Orientation to time,
   place and person.

 Memory

 Attention/concentration
 Overload-breakdown of

   comprehension
 Reasoning and problem

   solving: 
 Organizational skills
 Rate of processing
 Rate of performance
 Perseveration: a
   tendency to repeat a
   response or activity
   after it is no longer
   needed. 
 Distractibility

 Generalization

 Decreased initiation

 Impulsivity

 Emotional lability

 Emotional indifference

 Decreased social skills

 Depression

 Agitation/irritability

 Disinhibition

 General Deconditioning

 Decreased strength or

   paralysis

 Decreased range of motion

 Changes in muscle tone

 Decreased balance and

   coordination

 Ataxia

 Apraxia

 Decreased head and trunk

   control/postural changes

 Sensory changes

 Decreased mobility

SC Access has a number of brochures and fact sheets that you can download, including materials published by the BIAA.

This 29-minute video, introduced by General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), offers an introduction to TBI, a health issue affecting at least 1.4 million Americans each year. It features the recovery journeys of several service personnel and their families.

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