HAVE YOU SEEN STARS?

With cars, sports, wars, a blow to the head has become a major incident, overlooked physical injury for a million and a half people yearly. Society and routine medical care divisions categorize and treat it as temporary. If it is, the patient is lucky. If it is not, it becomes permanent and takes years before this injury may be acknowledged by routine medical care physicians, because there are not adequate test for such an injury to alert the medical staff that there is a problem. Medical staff needs to do it the old fashioned way – by observing.

IF YOU RECEIVE A BLOW TO THE HEAD
1. Do not assume symptoms are not important when the blow to the head was only slight.
2. Minor symptoms are potential clues to a possible serious physical problem.
3. Will probably continue to increase in spite of diagnosis that says “they will go away.”
4. Don’t wait too long to learn about head injuries, doing so often causes compounded problems which will delay the healing process or may cause the injury to become permanent.
5. It is the patient’s responsibility to question any diagnoses that doesn’t feel right – do not “live with it” if it isn’t getting better – head injuries can become permanent if ignored.
6. Head Injury victims are also doing their own research, along with other support groups, research clinic and brain injury activist groups who are searching for explanations and evaluating beliefs, concepts, and potential advances.
7. Answers are complicated, human bodies are all different, their healing processes are not identical, finding the proper approach and treatment for each body is vital and the reason why finding the right answer is so difficult.

Moral of the story - keep asking questions, keep seeking answers, never accept advice that doesn't have your best interest at heart.