In <5c6r02$pan at dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> flefever at ix.netcom.com(F.
Frank LeFever) writes:
>>In <5bs2gk$grm at sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> flefever at ix.netcom.com(F. Frank
>LeFever) writes:
>>>>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
>>>>>
