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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Canada
Posts: 64
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Canada
Posts: 64
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Originally Posted by thedude58
The best answer I found so far is from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Check out the concussion definition as well as the traumatic brain injury definition.
I had a similar experience and was referred to a hospital where their primary brain injury patients were teenagers having difficulty with their lives. No treatment for accident victims like me.
Here in Ontario Canada, in my experience, family physicians have very little knowledge when it comes to brain injury treatment or rehab. I've had to do my own research. I'm sure that the very prospect of educating yourself after TBI/concussion can seem daunting, but for me it was my only option. I can't wait to bring my new doctor up to speed. 
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Hi Jamie, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am in Ontario, Canada as well and am only now getting OT and SLP treatment as a result of my car accident -- 1 year later. Even though my family doctor diagnosed me with PCS, she still did not seem to know enough that I needed A LOT more support and education on just how much this would change my families life and mine. I am now looking into some local support groups.
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1 year post-concussion caused by a high-speed MVA.
Driver to driver head-on. I was stationary and the other vehicle hit me traveling > 110 km/hr successfully breaking my sternum.
Diagnosed with chronic neuropathic pain, PTSD, somatic symptom disorder, depression, anxiety. I suffer from daily headaches, 24x7.
Meds: On prescription medication for neuropathic pain, breakthrough pain, anxiety, depression and sleep disorder.
OTC medications used to try and keep headaches in check: acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
Treatments: Physio (declined since May '14), RMT (declined since Feb '14), Psychiatry CBT (since Nov '13), Pain Clinic Nerve Blocks, Botox and Lidocaine Infusion (since May '14), SLP (since Aug '14), OT (since Sep '14).
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