18% of Deployed Ft. Carson Troops Had Brain Injury
A 22-month study of Fort Carson soldiers returning from the Middle East found that nearly 18 percent suffered from at least a mild form of traumatic brain injury. Of 13,440 soldiers examined since June 2005, 2,392 exhibited some of the symptoms associated with mild TBI which include headaches, memory loss, irritability, difficulty sleeping and balance problems. Like post-traumatic stress disorder, there is no "identifying marker" that would make brain injuries easy to diagnose. Bullets and shrapnel that penetrate the skull are the obvious causes of TBI, but explosions that have rattled the head of Fort Carson soldiers are overwhelmingly to blame. Blast waves and the resulting sudden change in air pressure from explosions are the leading cause of the closed-head injuries.
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