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What is Considered Traumatic Brain Injury?

By April 22, 2022January 2nd, 2024No Comments
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A traumatic brain injury or a TBI, is any time there is damage to the brain such as bruising, shearing, tearing, or blunt trauma. A concussion is considered a mild traumatic brain injury or a mTBI. It’s considered less severe and usually is recovered more quickly than a TBI. People typically experience long-term symptoms from TBIs but those who experience concussions can also experience the same if left untreated.

Seek out a concussion specialist if you feel like you aren’t getting better even though you are past the 2 to 4 week mark for healing. Some are even told by their primary care provider that because their MRI or CT scans are negative they are fine, but they will still be experiencing severe symptoms. Whether you have a mTBI or TBI it’s best to see someone who is trained to work with these conditions and give you the right environment to heal from your brain injury.

San Diego Chiropractic Neurology

We are a chiropractic neurology clinic that specializes in functional neurology, brain trauma, and spine trauma. Some other common conditions we work with are concussions and TBI, ADHD, POTS and dysatuonomia, headaches and migraines, as well as dizziness and disequilibrium syndromes.

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