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About Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) is the type of injury that people don’t always realize they have because the symptoms are nuanced, but often debilitating.

When it comes to brain injuries, even slight brain injuries such as a mild traumatic brain injury, the slightest reduction in cognitive ability or other non-obvious brain injury symptoms such as headaches, memory loss, dizziness, vertigo, emotional upset, loss of the ability to multi-task, decision-making impairment, and other non-obvious impairments can wreak havoc on one’s life.

Life in today’s society is demanding. Our jobs require peak performance much of the time. Our recreation is more complex and our growing reliance on the ability to quickly navigate computers and other technologies require that we be able to function at full capacity. Moreover, as technology advances in our work and personal lives, we are always learning and must be able to learn quickly.

Mild traumatic brain injury, whether slight or more pronounced, can insidiously impair our lives – both working and personal lives. To make matters more frustrating, people who suffer a MTBI don’t realize they’ve suffered such an injury.

Why does MTBI often go unnoticed?

Because of the fact it is mild and that many symptoms are sometimes explained from other causes. Memory impairment is blamed on age. Headaches are blamed on a neck injury or are something one has had for years and now the headaches are worse. The fact is MTBI symptoms, even if several are present, are often not connected with a traumatic brain injury.

What is MTBI?

Anyone who suffers a concussion suffers a MTBI. For years concussions were dismissed as something temporary that maybe cause some headaches, but aren’t terribly debilitating. Fortunately in recent years, especially with the publicity surrounding contact sport concussions, the medical establishment and legal industry are getting a better understanding about the potential severity and debilitating long-term nature of concussions.

MTBI Symptoms

There are many MTBI symptoms including:

headaches,
memory loss,
dizziness,
vertigo,
emotional upset,
loss of the ability to multi-task,
decision-making impairment,
blurred/double vision,
sensitivity to light,
vomiting,
nausea,
slurred speech,
ringing in ears,
change in personality and/or behaviour.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list; however it is a common list of MTBI symptoms.

Can whiplash cause a mild traumatic brain injury?

Yes. In fact whiplash can cause more severe types of brain injuries. We don’t particularly like using the term whiplash because it’s often thought of as a minor, temporary neck injury. A more accurate description of a whiplash injury is “acceleration and deceleration injury to the neck.”

Moreover, often the forces involved in a motor vehicle accident crash the head into the head-rest which causes additional impact and counter-forces to the brain inside the skull.

Tell you doctor everything

Probably the best way to determine whether you have a mild traumatic brain injury is reporting EVERY symptom you have from your motor vehicle accident (or other traumatic event). No matter how slight or infrequent, tell your doctor each and every symptom. To you it may not seem to add up to much, but to a trained professional, the combination of symptoms and a description of the traumatic event may tip your doctor off that a mild traumatic brain injury may be present.

Are mild traumatic brain injuries permanent?

Not always. But sometimes they are. The sooner you obtain treatment, the better. Again, this is why it’s important to bring the matter to your doctor’s attention.

Concussion treatment is improving all the time. The primary objective is to fully heal the injury.

What about CT scans and MRIs?

Mild traumatic brain injuries are seldom spotted on CT scan and MRI results. This is no doubt frustrating for both injured victims and treating professionals. However, just because it’s not on a CT scan or MRI does not mean there is not a brain injury. It’s called a MILD brain injury for a reason. This does not mean it’s not debilitating or insignificant.

If you’ve sustained a MTBI and you believe it was caused by somebody else, you may have a legal claim. Talk to one of our experienced traumatic brain injury lawyers today. Several of our personal injury lawyers are experienced brain injury lawyers, including pursuing legal claims involving mild traumatic brain injuries.

Schedule a free consultation with one of our traumatic brain injury lawyers today. We have offices in Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge, and Aldergrove to serve you. Mention ‘discount’ for $250 off the legal fee – which is payable if and when our traumatic brain injury lawyers recover money for you.

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