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Originally Posted by scooter
For what its worth, I've known some of those "dirtbags" with mTBI who have problems years later with double vision, headaches, memory issues, and difficulty concentrating who were denied any sort of compensation or recognition for a medical problem set directly caused by hostile action.
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These are not people considered to have mTBI. These people have a postconcussive syndrome post MTBI (Moderate). MTBI is demonstrated by documented symptoms requiring medical treatment for a period of more than 6 months after injury.
It is difficult to associate / blame problems "later in life" to a single incident that happened years previous because there is no way to predict the future of what the "normal degradation of function" for THAT INDIVIDUAL would have been if they had led a perfectly risk free life.
You may recall the flap about silicone breast implants "causing" mental changes, chronic pain disorders, memory issues etc in women back in the 80's...until enough women were studied and it was found out it had little to nothing to do with the implants - it was simply that statistically a portion of the population complains about that stuff as a normal part of their getting older / life process.
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Primum non Nocere
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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