Undiagnosed Concussion from a Motor Vehicle Accident – it is more common than you think

Car accidents can be extremely distressing; the injuries, the trauma, the shock, the damage, the paperwork, the added stress to your life. You do all the right things as best you can, however, you still have unresolved symptoms that seem to continually rear their head on you. 

Maybe you have lingering headaches, maybe your memory is not like it used to be, maybe you still struggle to concentrate or have difficulties holding conversations in the office. Too many people settle with these symptoms, accepting them as their new ‘normal’. You may have had imaging and were told that nothing was found. You may have been told that it is a whiplash injury that will just take time to heal.

Or maybe you suffered a concussion injury during your accident. A concussion is caused by acceleration and deceleration of your brain and brainstem which subsequently creates rapid stretching and sheering of the nerve fibres and neural tissue inside these structures. A concussion is a functional injury which means that you can’t see it on most standard imaging. Similarly, this means that just because your imaging is clear, does not mean that nothing is wrong.

A concussion can cause an abundance of functional deficiencies within your brain and body. These deficiencies can cause symptoms that were mentioned earlier; lingering headaches, worsened memory, concentration issues, difficulty with conversations, cognitive issues and many more. Even though these deficiencies won’t appear on imaging, they can often be assessed, rehabilitated and resolved, ultimately helping to resolve persistent symptoms.

An initial consultation at Headquarters is 90-minutes long and encompasses a huge array of multi-system testing. The goal of multi-system testing is to figure out what may be dysfunctional so that we know what we need to rehabilitate specific to you.

Please reach out if you have any questions on how we might be able to help you.