Why “Mild” Traumatic Brain Injury Isn’t Mild: What the Long-Term Outcome Research Shows
In medicine, “mild traumatic brain injury” is a technical classification–it describes the severity of the initial presentation, typically based on a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13–15, meaning the person didn’t lose consciousness for long, if at all, and didn’t show severe neurological signs at the scene or in the ER. It says nothing about…