Phyx,

Has your PT done any electrical stimulation? Research says that is can help your brain become aware of your muscles. The issue you are dealing with is due to dormant neural cells. They can be stimulated from either end, the brain or muscles. By stimulating them at the muscle end with artificial electrical stimulation, the brain cells get a jolt. The brain cells then look for that signal again. The more TENS the brain receives, the more it looks for those signals.

Even massaging your legs causes them to send signals to the brain. You have three types of signals. Touch (pressure, temperature, and pain), position, and action. The action signal goes from the brain to the muscle. The others go from the extremity to the brain. Pushing these last two to the brain may be helpful.

I am not surprised that you are struggling so with distraction. If your brain still has so much healing to do in the motor control which is very simple compared to psyche (thought), it would sound logical that the psyche brain cells have even more work to recover.

btw, Your getting upset is a normal symptom of mTBI. You will be ahead if you anticipate over-reacting so that you can try to avoid the triggers.