Causes and Symptoms
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs more often than you would think, and there are any number of scenarios that can cause it. Some of the more obvious include severe auto accidents. For instance, a passenger may be thrown through the windshield and hit their head on the pavement. Another common example could be an elderly person slipping in the shower and banging their head on the way down. However, we tend to forget that a football player can sustain a brain injury during a tackle that is just as devastating as one caused by a car crash. Here, we have outlined the key conditions responsible for TBI and the circumstances that produce them.
Since there are so many variations of TBI, it can be expected that each diagnosis is linked to a unique set of symptoms. But, obviously a mild brain injury is not going to exhibit all of the side effects that a severe brain injury would, and some of those linked to severe TBI would be of much more serious nature. This list is a good point of reference to help you determine the severity of a head injury.