These injuries can result from motor vehicle accidents, sports injuries falls or other events that may not involve a direct blow to the head. Mild traumatic brain injury is also known as a concussion. Patients with a concussion may have significant persistent symptoms commonly know as Post-Concussive Syndrome.
Most individuals improve without medical attention.
However, others may have a slow recovery period, and the symptoms may negatively impact their professional and private lives. Fatigue Headache Visual disturbance Memory loss Poor attention or concentration Sleep disturbance Dizziness and loss of balance Irritability Feelings of depression Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation , on the campus of Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, serves patients with this type of injury through the Post-Concussive Clinic. The professionals here address each patient's ongoing symptoms, provide appropriate medical and therapeutic interventions, and work to restore the patient to his or her pre-injury social and work level. Physicians who are members of the Carolinas Neurological Institute direct the clinic. This multi-center effort maintains a national database and investigates recovery, treatment and outcomes in individuals who had a traumatic brain injury.