Quote by Mark IN Idaho

In my years of researching concussions, I have never heard anything like this. Concussions are known to cause a cascade of events with some symptoms not manifesting for days or weeks. Those that consider later swelling a separate event are not up to the medical knowledge. In fact, one expert chastises the ER docs and others who see the patient first of the need to note in the chart that a head impact was suffered, whether there are current concussion symptoms or not. This way subsequent issues can be properly tied to the head impact.


I have to definitely agree with Mark on this. I went months without a concussion diagnosis, even though every record of doctor visits, ER visits, all have documented issues. Add to that, the fact that I was rearended at 65 mph.

I happen to be one of the people who really didn't realize there was issues going on concussion wise... it wasn't until the neurosurgeon put it into perspective for me that it made sense.