Symptoms of Brain Injury

In UK, the compensations received for a brain injury claim is significantly larger than an average personal injury claim. It is imperative if you are making a claim either for yourself or on behalf of someone else, that you have the knowledge about symptoms which can occur as a result of these kind of accidents. Look at the list below; it gives a list of potential symptoms, of both physical and cognitive that can occur due to damages 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) Thinking about one thing at a time will happen more persistently
d) Changes in your mood
e) A change in personality
f) Social behaviour changes
g) Brocha’s Aphasia or difficulty in expressing language
h) Your body will become incapable of performing the movements needed to perform easy tasks such as cooking the dinner or lighting a candle
i) Losing flexibility in thought process
j) The loss of attention
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) Alexia or trouble in reading
c) Drawing objects will be difficult
d) Dyscalculia or difficulty in solving easy mathematical problems
e) Visual focus will become impossible
f) The recognition of multiple objects will become difficult
g) Whilst writing you will be incapable of finding the right words
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 will become a problem
c) Recognising colours may be difficult
d) Visual illusions or seeing objects inaccurately
e) The failure in recognising drawn objects
f) Difficulty in writing and reading
g) Locating objects in the environment may become more difficult
h) have dellusions
i) The incapability of recognising words
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) Too much talking
f) Inability to understand spoken words
g) Identifying and verbalising visual objects could be difficult
h) Problems in long term memory
i) You will feel helpless when it comes to categorising 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) Objects in the environment will become difficult to identify
c) Nausea and dizziness
d) The tendency to swallow food and water
e) Trouble in balancing and movement
f) Sleep problems like sleep apnea or insomnia

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) Lightedheadness
d) Rapid body movements will be impossible
e) You will find it impossible to walk
f) Tremors
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.

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