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A traumatic brain injury would belong on a list of such silent injuries. During a sudden stop, the rider’s momentum can force him or her off of the motorcycle and onto the ground, often in a head-first direction. That is why motorcyclists are encouraged to wear helmets.
The extent of the damage to the brain cannot always be detected. That fact explains the reason for the name silent injuries. The symptoms can seem quite insignificant, a few mild headaches and perhaps some nausea. By the time that more severe symptoms start to appear, those might not get connected to the much earlier accident.
A closer look at the more severe symptoms
Those could include things like trouble sleeping, disturbing dreams, repeated demonstrations of agitation and dizziness. These do not appear in any definite order. If the patient does report the symptom to a physician, the same doctor seldom has little if any reason for linking any of those problems to the day when the motorcyclist’s head made contact with the ground.
If the rider had been wearing a helmet on that day, any thought of such a link might be viewed as foolish. Even a trained physician might not stop to wonder whether or not the rider’s brain had made contact with the skull that surrounded it. Such contact can do as much harm to the brain as a hard surface, if such a surface happens to stop a body (and head) in free-fall.
Steps that reduce the chances that a biker might suffer a traumatic brain injury
• Wear a good-fitting helmet: It should not be too loose or too tight.
• Make sure that the same helmet does not obstruct the vision of the person that is wearing that particular piece of headgear.
• Seek medical care just as soon as possible after leaving the scene of the accident. Have it on record that there was an impact on the rider’s head.
How to go after a fair compensation for such an injury
Hire a Personal Injury Lawyer in Brantford. Share with that lawyer the diagnosis of the first doctor to view your injuries, the one that examined you within hours of the time that you suffered your fall. Expect to be scheduled for either a CT scan or an MRI. Those imaging procedures can detect problems that remain hidden from any other machine.
Keep a journal and write down any observable symptom, along with when it appeared and how long it continued. Share the notations in your journal with your lawyer. Your journal entries should also help you to recall the information that you need to share with a neurologist, a physician that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of brain-associated disorders.