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Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients should be assessed for a co-occurring traumatic
brain injury (TBI) on admission to a rehabilitation program. Incidence of a dual
diagnosis may approach 60% with certain risk factors. Diagnosis of mild-moderate
severity TBIs may be missed during acute care hospitalizations of SCI.
Neuropsychological symptoms of a missed TBI diagnosis may be perceived during
rehabilitation as noncompliance, inability to learn, maladaptive reactions to
SCI, and poor motivation. There are life-threatening and
quality-of-life-threatening complications of TBI that also may be missed if a
dual diagnosis is not made.
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