In a recent post, Item 9 called for a review of the application of Kaizen to recovery from mTBI. in the next post, such an application was dismissed due to the fact the mTBI victim lacks the ability to gain full process control. Absent such control, it is impossible to establish a baseline state that may be used to measure performance excursions. Without a defined baseline, any intervention is reduced to tinkering, a series of blind attempts to achieve positive change without an understanding of the drivers, or obstacles, to that positive change. This suggests Kaizen may have limited application in an intervention targeting mTBI victims.
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