Post-Concussion Syndrome And Other Invisible Injuries
It is not possible to understand what it is like to live with a chronic illness or injury unless it happens to you or one of the closest people in your life. This is why, when strangers offer to help a person with a disability, the help they are offering is unnecessary or would even make things worse; the help the person needs is something that most people would never guess. This is also why, when requesting disability accommodations at work, the employee is the first to describe the accommodations he or she needs, and then the employer makes the accommodations to the extent that its resources allow, even though medical privacy laws prevent employers from asking for details about the employee’s diagnosis. When your chronic illness or injury affects how you feel but not how you look, you face an additional challenge. Coworkers, or even your own family, might assume, or might even tell you to your face, that you cannot possibly feel as bad as you say you feel, since you look fine. The biggest challenges you face are when you try to get compensation for an invisible injury resulting from a preventable accident, since the party responsible for the accident has a financial interest in assuming that you are exaggerating your symptoms. If you are suffering from post-concussion syndrome or another invisible injury after a car accident, contact a Columbia car accident lawyer.
What Is Post-Concussion Syndrome, and How Does It Happen?
Post-concussion is the residual symptoms of a concussion. Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury, results from a traumatic injury to the head. Common causes include motor vehicle accidents, accidental falls, contact sports such as tackle football or rugby, or violent assaults. Sometimes the symptoms of concussion go away within a few weeks, but if they do not, this is post-concussion syndrome.
The symptoms of post-concussion syndrome are the same as the acute symptoms of concussion. The most obvious symptom is headache, which can feel like a migraine concentrated on one side of the head or like a tension headache that starts at the back of the head. Other symptoms include sensitivity to light, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, drowsiness, difficulty concentrating, and mood symptoms such as irritability, anxiety, or depression. Symptoms of post-concussion syndrome can last several months. The risk of developing post-concussion syndrome is greater if you have had concussions in the past, and it becomes greater with each subsequent concussion. Clinical examination and diagnostic imaging in the first days after the concussion occurs cannot accurately predict whether the patient will develop post-concussion syndrome. Treatment for post-concussion syndrome is supportive; it aims at managing symptoms, but the only way for post-concussion syndrome to go away is if you wait for it to go away on its own.
Let Us Help You Today
The personal injury lawyers at the Stanley Law Group can help you pursue a complaint related to a car accident that caused a concussion. Contact The Stanley Law Group in Columbia, South Carolina or call (803)799-4700 for a free initial consultation.
Source:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534786/
