Conceptualizing Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease

The purpose of this paper is to encourage the classification of a TBI not as an event, not as the final outcome, but rather as the beginning of a disease process. The paper presents the scientific data supporting the fact that neither an acute TBI nor a chronic TBI is a static process—that aTBI impacts multiple organ systems, is disease causative and disease accelerative, and as such,should be paid for and managed on a par with other diseases.

For a pdf of this article, go to:

http://www.biausa.org/elements/pdfs/position_chronic_disease_mar_2009.pdf