If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury you will know it. If you are thinking about a lawsuit, ask yourself. Do I know it? Is my loved one’s brain malfunctioning?
Others may not notice? As a loved one, a wife, a mother, a best friend, a brother, or coworker. You know that the rider is now a victim.
This Blawg! explains the legal impact of a brain injury.
- Common Types of Brain Injuries in Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle Man asks you to think of it this way.
Imagine your brain is a very sturdy head of healthy cauliflower floating in a not yet firm Jello solution surrounded on all sides by a stone bowl.
Sloshing the cauliflower (the rider’s brain) can cause “trauma.”
Concussions (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury / mTBI)
- Often overlooked at the scene
- “Somethin’ ain’t right” syndrome
- Often occurs without loss of consciousness
- Can cause headaches, memory issues, confusion, and mood changes
Many riders dismiss concussions that lead to long-term neurological problems that the rider adjusts to and adapts to because the rider is rough. We all live and learn.
Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
These injuries involve more significant brain disruption that the rider cannot conceal even to public people:
- Prolonged unconsciousness
- Cognitive impairment
- Isolation
- Fear of Interaction
- Sound phobia
- Light phobia
- Mumbling
- Physical/Motor function disabilities
- Behavioral and personality changes – Anger or Suspicion
- Speech impairment
- Significant memory lapses
Moderate to Severe TBIs often require rehabilitation and long-term medical care.
The brain is at the center of each of us. Damage to the brain can be tragic and permanent.
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
Leading scientists believe these problems are “Axonal” injuries, essentially caused by the brain twisting or rotating or bouncing inside the skull.
This can happen without a motor vehicle impact, for example, if the head above the seatbelt goes from 68 m.p.h. to 0 m.p.h. in 3.2 seconds?
SLOSH! BANG! OUCH!
An axon is essentially a long, thin “tail” on a brain cell. Its only job is to carry a message from Point A to Point B.
What happens if your brain cells stop communicating?
DUH?!
Thus, Motorcycle Man speaks to the smallest points of YOUR BRAIN! The smallest tendrils the most whispy of whisps of neural tendrils connecting together to form the mind, what we feel as ourselves. RIPPED and SHREDDED like when your wife bought her sister at Christmas that weird thing for “julienning” vegetables.
- How Brain Injuries Are Diagnosed
If you report head trauma after a motorcycle accident, doctors may order:
- CT scans to detect bleeding (essentially a really powerful X-Ray; cannot see soft tissue like the brain very well)
- MRI scans to evaluate brain tissue damage (again, damage must be moderate to severe)
- Neurocognitive tests to assess memory, focus, and reasoning (this is behavioral in office questioning and testing – hard to interpret borderline cases but very clear on obvious deficiencies)
The truth is that MRI can see major damage. Definitely get an MRI. Also of your neck if your head was implicated. The neck is fragile – “snaps.”
True diagnosis of traumatic brain injury though is hard to reduce to “objective” scientific imaging unless it is moderate to severe.
So many real cases of coginitive loss go disputed by the Insurance Defense Industry and then undercompensated or ignored.
Cutting edge techniques and recent scientific advances have gotten us to where we can say more likely than not, which is useful for lawsuits, but it is hard to prove permanent, non-serious damage through physical imaging. Even if you have the worst fucking nightmares ever and weird feelings surround you, it is hard to seeing the Axonal Damage to those key parts of your mind.
No standard testing available through insurance will pay for Axonal imaging. Your case must present serious damages and clear liability with proof of insurance to obtain this kind of testing.
If those tests of clear Axonal Injury return with evidence of real life changes for the worse? Combined with mental anguish – also hard to prove – you can understand many rider’s permanent injuries that don’t show a scar or make an easy soundbite of suffering. Recovery can be significant.
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