Chasing the Care: Soldiers Experience Following Combat-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is often an invisible and hard-to-diagnosis disorder that can have large impacts on Service members’ functioning. Service members who had sustained a deployment-related mTBI and their spouses answered questions regarding the military health care system and care that they received. Soldiers consistently reported a need to “chase the care” or repeatedly request or demand the care they needed, as well as several other problems with advocating for and receiving mTBI treatment.