Adolescent Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Primary Care

Abstract

The issue of mild traumatic brain injury has been an underdiagnosed problem for many years. This was frequently due to a lack of insight that, although there was no evidence of injury on computed tomography scan, the impact/injury had created functional changes within the brain that could cause long-term complications. Over the past 10 years, health care providers and the public have become more aware of the true impact of this form of injury on adolescents (13-19) in sports and other trauma-related injuries. This is not an injury to ignore; the consequences can be life-threatening.