Pre-deployment test could help spot TBI later on
Soldiers deploying next month with the 1st Armored Division headquarters staff are taking part in the U.S. Army’s first large-scale test for traumatic brain injury. A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, disrupts normal brain function. The test on 1st AD soldiers in Wiesbaden, Germany could be especially useful in assessing mild brain injuries. “It’s the mild TBI guys” who are the focus, said Lt. Col. Jerome L. Buller, the division surgeon-general. “They are the diagnostic dilemma.” That’s because any damage done is generally hard to diagnose, since the injury is internal and thus more difficult to detect.
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