Science Daily has an interesting article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0511122236.htm The interesting information is in the 4th paragraph that starts with "The VCU team."

Why is it people like you and I can read articles like this but a-holes like my Neurologist seem to think Depakote and Topamax are the only thing ever made for PCS and tell me he's seen thousands of brain injuries? I'm so tempted to use words nobody on this forum ever uses, but I'm very close to blowing up publicly about my Neuro and the WC system generally right now. I can learn more about my injury and get better advice how to A) deal with it and B) what to do to help my brain recover from it with one evening reading threads here than almost 6 months of my so called medical professional attending physician is capable or willing to provide.

The most frustrating thing is, I don't feel like a patient; I feel like a football. It's a huge game of tit for tat between my lawyer and theirs, setting up appointments with neuropsychs then countering with another appointment with another, approving one appointment then claiming they never did, changing my meds then canceling the appointment where we might discuss the change in meds to wait for a neuropsych eval (2nd one to date) all of which comes exactly 6 months from injury, right in time for short term to end....

I hate this and I want my life back. I just wish the legal crap would end and I could tell all the Dr.s to bollocks off and I'll fix myself with nutrition and diet and exercise.

Wow, sorry Mark. Thanks for the article, though....

Scott, If you could get just a bit of what the WC insurer spends with attorneys and NP's, you could move light years ahead. WC and head injuries are an impossible situation. Even the WC appeals judge appears to be on the side of the insurer in my case.

lol, even the neuropsychiatrist I saw said the same thing. His last piece of advice was to keep my lawyer, said she was real good. Most encouraging thing I've heard in 5 months. My wife and I keep wondering how different it might be if I had been hurt at home instead of at work, and were paying with our private insurance, not WC. To be treated like a patient for once, might I be getting some therapies and respect? Bollocks.

If your neuro has seen thousands of brain injuries, he still has not seen one like yours before. Plus, he sounds like he must be old enough to be old school, meaning he does not have any reasonable understanding of concussions.

If he was hired by WC, he is just a hired gun, nothing more from the patient's point of view.