I'll ask you one. If someone is up walking around with a bad headache, balance issues, probable concussion from blast shock-wave, without visible head injury, at what level does concussion change to traumatic brain injury in a diagnosis in military hospital setting?They said concussion symptoms I do not believe that is traumatic brain injury unless you have had multiple concussions like the NFL players who played during the time when concussions where not taken seriously did. The concussion symptoms should be taken seriously but calling them traumatic brain injury might be premature at this point.
Sorry. but I gotta go with the judgment of military doctors who have actually seen the patients over some anonymous poster on the internet.
I served as a military doctor-----decades ago. Feel free to ask
good question----but it is not a MILITARY QUESTION ---it is a question in the
field of neurology. -------first---keep in mind ----the complaint of HEADACHE is
a subjective complaint. One cannot MEASURE a "headache" other than by
asking -----"you got some pain in your head"?. Two----"balance issues"
There are both OBJECTIVE issues and subjective issues. I feel "unbalanced"
"dizzy" is a subjective complaint. Specific tests of balance and clinical SIGNS
of disordered balance do exist. SIGNS are very important. ----YOU CAN ELLICIT or SEE THEM CLINICALLY ---ataxia, nystagmus----and other strange words like dysdiadokinesis-----and tests like OPTOKINETICS --------then there are tests to determine brain
injury or dysfunction. ------Like EEG, C-T scan---and the various kinds of MRI----
including FUNCTIONAL MRI thingys ----and clinical manifestations------
like seizures-----long term clinical follow-up. It's a tough topic