What is a traumatic brain injury claim?
Brain injuries range from concussion to severe. The difficulty is that a mild traumatic brain injury can be genuinely disabling while a CT scan reads normal.
Symptoms that get missed or misattributed: headaches, difficulty concentrating, memory problems, word-finding trouble, light and noise sensitivity, sleep disruption, irritability, and emotional changes. These get attributed to stress, to being upset about the crash, or to depression.
Why they get missed. The person doesn't connect them to the crash, doesn't report them, and often isn't asked. Family members frequently notice before the person does.
What supports a claim. Documentation from the outset, including any loss of consciousness or confusion. Neuropsychological testing, which measures function rather than structure. Specialized imaging in appropriate cases. And testimony from people who knew the person before.
What to do. Report every cognitive and emotional symptom to a provider, in those terms. A symptom described to a spouse and not to a doctor doesn't exist in the record.
Tell a doctor about the memory and concentration problems specifically. Those get missed. ---
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