Traumatic
Brain Injury Symptoms
Traumatic
brain injury symptoms can affect a person cognitively,
physically and emotionally.
Cognitive
symptoms of traumatic brain injury may include:
- short
term memory loss and/or long term memory
loss
- slowed
ability to process information
- trouble
concentrating or paying attention for
periods of time
- difficulty
keeping up with a conversation;
- other
communication difficulties
- such
as word finding problems
- spatial
disorientation
- organizational
problems and impaired judgment
- unable
to do more than one thing at a time
Physical
symptoms of traumatic brain injury may include:
- seizures
of all types
- muscle
spasticity
- double
vision or low vision, even blindness
- loss
of smell or taste
- speech
impairments such as slow or slurred speech
- headaches
or migraines
- fatigue,
increased need for sleep
- balance
problems
- pain
Emotional
symptoms of trauamtic brain injury may include:
- a
lack of initiating activities, or once started,
difficulty in completing tasks without reminders
- increased
anxiety
- depression
and mood swings
- denial
of deficits
- impulsive
behavior
- more
easily agitated
- egocentric
behaviors- difficulty seeing how behaviors can
affect others
If
you, or someone you know, have suffered any cognitive,
physical, and/or emotional traumatic brain injury
symptoms and would like to know if you are entitled
to receiving compensation, please contact
us.
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