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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
This is SOP. Standard Operating Procedure. The insurance companies think everyone claiming a head injury wants a free ride. They know that the claimant will have a difficult time pursuing their case due to their own cognitive problems and the psychological industry's muddying of the waters.
The psychologists keep saying it is all in our heads (psychologically). If that is the case, why can't they come up with a therapy to fix it.
Yes, it is in our heads but the problems are organic, not psychological. When a big pharmaceutical company comes up with a drug to treat us, they will beat down the walls we face.
The other problem is the need for a standard diagnostic protocol. Since one idiot neurologist wrongly discredited QEEG testing back in 1997, the best objective tool for diagnosis of MTBI has been kicked to the dust heap.
When the only other diagnostic tool requires the analysis of Neuropsychologist, we get stuck with a psychological causation. It is rare that a Neuropsychologist will attribute cognitive decline and other MTBI problems to organic brain injury unless the patient was in a coma for an extended period of time. The studies show that there is no direct correlation between Loss of Consciousness and long term cognitive problems. One can have hours of LOC and have no long term cognitive problems just as one can have no LOC and still have serious long term cognitive problems. This conundrum has them baffled since it defies their logic so they refuse to believe it.
Will Rogers once said that to fix society, first we need to shoot all of the attorneys.
For MTBI, we need to do something to get free of the asinine comments of Neuro-Psychs. We can't shoot them because we need the test results. We just need them to score the tests and leave the causation to the non-Psych experts.
BTW, There are a few very good Neuro-Psychs such a Glen Johnson of TBIGuide.com and Lloyd L Cripe who authored the Cripe Neurological Symptoms analysis of the MMPI-II that allows for accurate diagnosis of MTBI from the MMPI-II.
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Thanks Mark,
My lawyer wants me to go to the neuro-psychs and get a treatment from him.He has written a cognitive therapy schedule with 8-10 visits.He has also he feels where my injury was 4 years ago I am what I am at this point.This means I gotta live with whats wrong,and find ways to cope and get by.
My psychiatrist has since died 2 years ago now and he had documentation that said my head injury was not a bipolar or mood episode! The things that were going on were in fact from a pcs hit in the head.
Thank god he had this info sent in before his untimely death.Also where I am paying the bill and not an insurance co.paying first,they seem to want to limit the visits but are happy to collect the cash.This is a bad system with all involved getting slitted imho...