How To Know If Your Accident Left You With Verifiable Mild Brain Injury

In order to determine whether a victim meets the medical standards of a mild brain injury, they must confer with medical professionals and an attorney about the current and future implications of their injuries. Typically, any person suffering from a mild traumatic brain injury is an individual experiencing a traumatic event causing disputation of the functioning in their brain. Symptoms indicative of mild brain injuries include memory loss of events immediately following or before a trauma, any period of lost consciousness, any change in mental faculties at time of traumatic event, or expression of focal neurological deficit. Typically, medical professionals apply a set standard of severity when determining if a mild brain injury is more applicably considered an elevated brain injury.

Common Causes of Mild Brain Injuries

The following outlines some common causes of mild brain injuries. Should a victim experience one of these events, they should seek medical evaluation and treatment to confirm or deny the existence of a brain injury following the event, including:

Physical trauma to the head by a foreign object

Physical trauma to the head caused by the head striking a stationary object

The head experiencing rapid acceleration or deceleration, in turn causing acceleration and deceleration of the brain, such as seen in whiplash injuries

Following an incident, patients should undergo medical evaluation, which will most likely include magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalogram, computed tomography, or other common neurological testing. However, in mild brain injuries, patients may not initially exhibit symptomatology that is indicative of a mild brain injury, which would require the aforementioned testing to be done. Furthermore, in the acute stage, the appearance of mild brain injuries may not be easily diagnosed by medical professionals.

Common Symptoms Associated with Mild Brain Injuries

Though the criteria for mild brain injuries are well outline above, not all symptoms will appear immediately following an acute trauma event. The following symptoms, when taken alone or combination of one another, may exhibit a patient is suffering from a disability associated with a mild brain injury, including:

Behavioral alterations, which will adjust a victim’s emotional responses in a manner that is not reasonably accountable to other causes

Cognitive difficulties, which are also unaccountable to other causes, including problems with memory, concentration, speech, or perception

Physical symptoms, which are also unattributed to other injuries or causes, including vomiting, nausea, vision disturbances, sleep problems, fatigue, or sensory loss

It should be noted that most victims would not be able to identify symptoms immediately following an incident or accident. Typically, only until a victim returns to attempting to function as they had prior to a traumatic injury will they recognize their inability to do so.

Getting Legal Help with Mild Brain Injury Claims

Following medical treatment, victims of suspected mild brain injuries, which are also known minor head injuries, traumatic head syndrome, traumatic dephalgia, posttraumatic syndrome, or post concussion syndrome, should consult with an attorney about their legal options.

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