Affiliations: NNRC, Inc., 4198 Innslake Drive, Glenn Allen, VA 23060, USA | JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Cognitive Rehabilitation Program, Edison, NJ, USA
Note: [1] Director, Concussion Care Centres of America, Inc.; Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Sheltering Arms Hospital; Consultant, NeuroRecovery Center, Stuart Circle Hospital; Director, Transitional Rehabilitation Services Richmond, Virginia
Abstract: In the past few years, there has been a burgeoning of interest in reassessing the appropriateness and applicability of historically well entrenched nomenclature germane to persons in low level neurological states following brain injury. Surprisingly, the effort to develop a cross-disciplinary uniform set of clinical definitions for low level states has only been a very recent endeavor within the neuroscience community. The intent of this review is to provide clinicians with a better understanding of some of the history and ongoing issues pertinent to appropriate diagnostic labeling and the ultimate rationale of a uniform terminology for this special population of neurologic patients.
