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.
