Development
of clinical recommendations for progressive return to activity after military
mild traumatic brain injury: guidance for rehabilitation providers.
McCulloch KL1, Goldman LS,
Lowe L, Radomski MV, Reynolds J, Shapiro CR, West TA. J Head Trauma Rehabil.
2015 Jan-Feb;30(1):56-67. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000104.
“The Office of the Army
Surgeon General in collaboration with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury
Center…convened an expert working group to review the existing literature and
propose clinical recommendations that standardize rehabilitation activity
progression following” mild traumatic brain injury. Key sections of the results
are integration of graded activity progression with other Department of Defense
guidelines, symptom monitoring, activity descriptions, and timing of
progression through stages.