Background And Objectives: The objective of this work was to examine the association between deployment-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity, frequency, and other injury characteristics with headache outcomes in veterans evaluated at a Veterans Administration (VA) polytrauma support clinic.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of 594 comprehensive TBI evaluations between 2011 and 2021. Diagnostic criteria were based on the Department of Defense/VA Consensus-Based Classification of Closed TBI.