Explosions are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A new study shows that military personnel with mild brain trauma related to such blasts had outcomes similar to those with mild brain injury from other causes, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
However, nearly 80 percent of patients in both categories of brain trauma suffered moderate to severe overall disability within a year after injury.
The analysis appears June 16 in JAMA Neurology.