“Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is not just an event unique to deployment,” said Col. Nikki L. Butler, director of the Army Rehabilitation and Reintegration division, part of Army Medical Specialist Corps. “These injuries occur at airborne school, basic training, or in motor vehicle accidents. Some 84 percent of TBI is happening in garrison, it’s not just an IED blast that causes TBI. It’s bigger on the garrison side than on the deployed side. Just because we’re going to come out of Afghanistan doesn’t mean TBI is going to go away.”
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