If you've seen my posting "Good days/bad days...", you know I am
interested in day-to-day variability of symptoms after MILD head trauma
(postconcussion syndrome), and several other conditions.
TODAY'S posting is a query addressed to ANYONE with personal or
professional experience with head trauma--i.e., patients, family
members, physicians, therapists, neuropsychologists,, etc., etc.
There is the IMPRESSION that people surviving moderate or severe head
trauma do not have the same complaints as those with MILD trauma: e.g.
lethargy, mental fatigue, poor concentration, headaches, etc.
Is such a paradox true, or is it simply that people with severe injury
are (1) not very good at self-report, or (2) have other problems that
are so significant and troublesome that they can hardly bother with
these "subtler" and "subjective" problems?
I welcome all observations and opinions.
(P.S. if you have observed marked day-to-day variability in a specific
patient with SEVERE injury--yourself or any one else--I'd be interested
in including you in the "mild injury" study)
Frank LeFever
New York Neuropsychology Group