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Brain Injuries Are Like Snowflakes; Each One Slightly Different

By Cmdr. Paul Sargent, MC, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Concussion Care Clinic Medical Director Between the years 2000 and 2015 there were over 320,000 traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) reported within the Department of Defense. Up to 20 percent of all deployed service members throughout the last 10 years of OIF/ OEF deployments report experiencing at least some sort of TBI (Yurgill 2013). The vast majority of these is mild in nature, and will have no lasting consequences. However up to 15 percent of those concussions may have some ongoing residual effects (DCoE). As a Navy physician, I am concerned that service members with persisting symptoms of brain injury are not functioning in their jobs with peak performance or optimal effectiveness.

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