The Effectiveness of Intervention Facilitating Return to Work Through Improving Cognition for Those with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2019), about 2.87 million traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred in the United States in 2019. It is estimated that around 1.5 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury every year. Approximately 2.5 to 6.3 million people currently live with a TBI-related disability (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019; Faul & Coronado, 2015, as cited in Powell et al., 2016). Specific populations are at a higher risk for sustaining a TBI. High-risk age groups include children aged four years or younger, young adults 15–19 years of age, or elderly people older than 65 years. (Levin & Diaz-Arrastia., 2015). Additionally, TBI is reported to occur in around 8–22% of military personnel participating in combat operations (Levin & Diaz-Arrastia., 2015). Military personnel are at especially high risk of sustaining TBI due to combat-related injuries. With this, mTBI is estimated to account for 80 to 90 percent of TBI cases in both civilian and military populations. (Levin & Diaz-Arrastia., 2015)