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<\/a>This is a question I’ve seemed to be answering for clients lately.\u00a0 You are in a wreck or other event.\u00a0 You go to the emergency room.\u00a0 They look you over, they never say anything about a brain injury<\/a>, and they send you home.\u00a0 Does this mean you don’t have some type of brain injury?<\/p>\nAbsolutely not.<\/p>\n
Emergency rooms (and even other doctors) are notoriously bad at diagnosing brain injuries.\u00a0 Why is that?<\/p>\n
First, emergency rooms are triage facilities.\u00a0 They are only really looking for the things that are life-threatening or need to be treated immediately.\u00a0 Too often, this means that they don’t look for brain injuries unless the brain injury is the type that’s completely obvious.<\/p>\n
Second, emergency rooms (and most other doctors) don’t know you.\u00a0 For the most part, there’s not a readily available test that we can use during a doctor’s visit to say whether you have a brain injury.\u00a0 The first time (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a question I’ve seemed to be answering for clients lately.\u00a0 You are in a wreck or other event.\u00a0 You go to the emergency room.\u00a0 They look you over, they never say anything about a brain injury, and they…<\/span><\/p>\n