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The article discusses strategies that speech-language pathologists (SLP) can employ to help patients who suffered from traumatic brain injury (TBI) deal with somatic symptoms. Topics discussed include the most common somatic symptoms exhibited by TBI patients, the impact of patients' inability to manage somatic symptoms on their cognitive recovery and the advantages of using symptom tracking in TBI. Also discussed are the functions of mind miming when dealing with TBI somatic symptoms.

The article focuses on how rehabilitation teams help people with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) resume an active life, after studies suggest that concussion rehabilitation is not helpful for people with mTBI. Topics discussed include the "Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation" article by Noah Silverberg and Grant Iverson in 2013 asking whether post-TBI rest really is the best medicine, the real problems with prolonged rest, and the considerations to take when working with people with TBIs.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences of surviving a head injury in April 2013, which resulted in significant sensorineural hearing loss.