Forget aggravating concussions; there’s some concern that head banging can cause them.

As for loud music, I have to admit that I sometimes use it to get through hectic places. My diffuse axonal injury makes it impossible for me to filter sounds. I’d never make it through an over-stimulating, noisy grocery store without the tunes coming out of the ear buds of my MP3 player blocking out everything else. Yes, it aggravates my headache, but that beats standing in the dairy aisle frozen in a trance. (At first people just think you're the world's laziest product demonstrator, but after a while they haul you off to the nut house.)Coping with a TBI is so much about adapting and accommodating.

By the way, is anyone else here wrestling a diffuse axonal injury?