Moderate to severe brain injuries can have a huge impact on a person’s life. To that end, it is important to know what the signs look like.
How exactly to symptoms manifest? What should a person keep an eye out for?
Manifestation of physical symptoms
Mayo Clinic discusses the impact of a brain injury on a person’s health. Among the symptoms, the physical ones often serve as the easiest to pinpoint.
Examples include vomiting, nausea, losing consciousness for a period of time, falling into a comatose state, excruciating head pain, trouble with vision or hearing, lack of balance or lack of coordination and muscle control.
These symptoms often appear very shortly after the initial injury.
Manifestation of behavioral symptoms
These are often relatively easy to notice as well. Victims may begin to throw tantrums or exhibit other unusual, confusing and out-of-character behaviors.
For example, it is not uncommon for victims of head injuries to display misplaced aggression and stubbornness. This often leads to the refusal of medical services, despite the necessity of these services.
Manifestation of psychological symptoms
These symptoms are often the hardest to notice and will usually come after the physical and behavioral symptoms.
Typically, psychological symptoms involve memory. Victims often lose their short-term memory surrounding the incident leading to the injury. They may also struggle to recall details of their life, themselves or the people around them.
Memory often recovers over time, but some people will struggle with memory loss and memory trouble throughout their lives. As with other impacts, it is dependent on the severity of the injury.