New research from the Perelman School of Medicine and co-first-author Andrea Schneider reveals that traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) should be treated as a chronic condition, with long-term treatment plans and follow-up, due to long-term associations with neurological, psychiatric, cardiovascular, endocrine and metabolic diseases. The proposed framework, published in The Lancet Neurology calls for a fundamental shift in how even milder brain injuries are tracked and treated.
New framework calls for lifelong care after traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries
