(Medscape) – Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) should be managed as chronic, multisystem conditions requiring lifelong follow-up, experts said.
In a Policy View, an international panel of 29 specialists in neurology, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, and related fields proposes a prevention-first pathway built around neurotrauma care navigators; scheduled screening; telehealth; and closer links with stroke, cardiometabolic, memory, psychiatric, and epilepsy services.
“This would change how we think about the injury itself. Right now, most of us treat TBI and [SCI] as something that happens, gets managed in the hospital and in rehab, and then is largely over. CONTINUE