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Minor head injury often has a significant impact on an individual’s life-style as well as that of family members. The injury affects the areas that are crucial to an individual’s definition of self, an individual’s employment, activities of daily living, life skills, and social and leisure activities. Rimel’s study (1) found that 34% of the patients who were gainfully employed prior to an injury were unemployed three months later. The same study revealed that 14% of the patients stated they had difficulty with household chores and activities of daily living. An additional 15% “complained of changes in transportation” such as “no longer feeling competent to drive.”
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Lutz, K., Nash, L. (1993). Community and Vocational Re-Entry in Minor Head Injury. In: Mandel, S., Sataloff, R.T., Schapiro, S.R. (eds) Minor Head Trauma. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4366-3_18
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