Article: Occupational Therapy for Service Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

KEY WORDS

* brain injuries

* evidence-based practice

* military personnel

* occupational therapy

* physical therapy

* practice guidelines

More occupational therapists are needed to provide client-centered, evidence-based rehabilitation to the large numbers of service members who sustained mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) while deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Proponency for Rehabilitation and Reintegration tasked a team of occupational and physical therapists to assemble evidence-based best practices specific to mTBI. Despite the fact that evidence-based reviews, guidelines, and research regarding occupational therapy for mTBI are sparse, the team developed the Clinical Practice ...

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