Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury, Before, During, After a Pediatric Physiatrist Point of View

Pediatric traumatic brain injury is a very common medical problem encountered by pediatric physiatrists and for some children a difficult recovery. The rehabilitation of this is equally difficult. The incidence of traumatic brain injuries in the pediatric age group is 200/100,000 per year.1 The majority are minor brain injury by definition from the Glasgow Coma Scale. The scale is poor in describing the rehabilitation outcome of a child with severe or moderate brain injury.2,3,4,5 For mild brain injury there are many articles published that show difficulties in some children and young adults though many individuals who have these injuries never receive care or input.