In an article written 10 years ago in the journal Neurology, James Kelly and Jay Rosenberg noted that more than 30 years of earlier the then-Congress of Neurological Surgeons concluded that head injury leading to mental status alterations without loss of consciousness is a form of concussion.
Traumatic brain injury is usually broken into three classifications: severe, moderate, and mild. Unfortunately, the latter classification -mild traumatic brain injury -does the disservice of making the injury seem trivial or insignificant.
Most people have the misconception that in order to sustain a traumatic brain injury, it is necessary that you be struck in the head and rendered unconscious. This is not the case. I recently put together this podcast and PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) to debunk the various myths concerning mild traumatic brain injury and to give the listener a better idea and understanding as to the nature and consequences of traumatic brain injury.
