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Article: Occupational Therapy for Service Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. Sep/Oct 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...