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Permanency from Concussion  Subtle Brain Injury    • Does
Concussion involve permanent brain damage? It can.   • Does
Concussion disable? Often, but usually not for extended periods.
• Will I get better? In all likelihood.   • If I don’t have a
full recovery, is it because I am nuts? No.   • Why is it that
some people continue to have persisting problems? That is what
this page is about.  Far too much of the focus in the study of
what the researchers always call “mild” brain injury or subtle
brain injury, is trying to predict how serious a brain injury
will become, based upon the way in which the patient interacts
with medical professionals in the acute stage. This misses the
point. Certainly, if there was no concussion, there isn’t likely
to be a brain injury. But once there has been a concussion, the
focus should not be on categorizing how serious the concussion
was, but on what deficits the person is left with, after a
healing period, and w