Symptoms of Brain Injury
In UK, the compensations received for a brain injury claim is significantly larger than an average personal injury claim. Thorough knowledge of these symptoms should be researched if you are thinking of making a claim for brain injury either for yourself or someone else. Below are possible physical and cognitive symptoms that may occur due to damage to certain areas of the brain.
Injury of Forehead or Frontal Lobe
a) Paralysis or losing the ability to perform simple moments of part or parts of the body
b) It will become impossible to interact spontaneously with others
c) Persistently thinking about a single thing
d) Changes in your mood
e) Your personality will change
f) Social behaviour changes
g) Expressing language or Brocha’s Aphasia will become harder
h) Performing simple tasks such as making dinner or lighting a candle will be difficult to perform
i) The flexibility in though process will be lost
j) Losing attention easily
k) Difficulty in performing everyday problem solving
Injury of the Parietal lobe or the top or back of the head
a) Inability in naming an object
b) Reading or Alexia will be more difficult for you
c) Drawing objects will be difficult
d) Problems solving easy mathematical problems
e) Visual focus will become impossible
f) Incapable of recognising multiple objects at a time
g) Agraphia or inability to find words while writing
h) Inability to distinguish between right and left
i) Difficulty in hand and eye coordination
Injury of the Occipital lobes or the posterior part of the head
a) Vision defects
b) Reading or Alexia will be more difficult for you
c) Color Agnosia or difficulty in recognizing colors
d) Seeing objects inaccurately or visual illusions may be possible
e) Inability in recognizing drawn objects
f) Reading and writing may become difficult
g) Inability to locate objects in the environment
h) have dellusions
i) Recognising words may become difficult
j) Inability to identify the movement of an object
Injury of the temporal lobes or the portion of the head above the ears
a) Inability to recognize faces
b) Inability to pay attention to what is being seen and heard
c) Memory loss may be experienced in the short-term
d) Decrease or increase in sexual desire
e) Talking too much
f) Inability to understand spoken words
g) Identifying objects and saying what they are can be difficult
h) Problems in long term memory
i) Inability in categorizing objects
j) Your manner will change and aggressiveness will increase
Injury of the brain stem or portion of the brain that is deep within
a) Decrease in the vital capacity to breath, which is necessary for speech
b) Inability to identify objects in the environment
c) Vomiting and lightheadedness
d) The propensity to swallow food and water
e) Movement and balancing can become harder
f) Insomnia or sleep apnea may give you problems
Injury of the cerebellum or the base of the skull
a) Losing the ability to coordinate movements to perform simple tasks
b) The failure of grabbing and reaching an object
c) Dizziness
d) You will be incapable of making rapid body movements
e) Losing the ability to walk
f) Shakes
g) Slurred speech
Legal advice from a personal injury solicitor is necessary in seeking head injury compensation as the complications are too difficult to understand for the layperson.