Mild concussion symptoms

Mild concussion is mainly a temporary dysfunction of the brain's nervous system, mainly some short-term amnesia caused by some mild violent blows to the head. It can be recovered in a short time, but there may be some amnesia. There is no obvious change in the pathological anatomy of the nervous system, and there is no organic damage. What is manifested is mainly some changes in neurological function.

Mild concussion is mainly caused by some pathophysiological changes in violent fights. You must pay attention to protecting yourself in life. The main symptoms and signs of mild concussion are often accompanied by some dizziness. Different treatment requirements depend on different symptoms and different situations.

1. Transient brainstem symptoms: Impairment of consciousness occurs immediately after trauma to the head, manifested as confusion or complete coma, lasting for several seconds, minutes or tens of minutes, but generally not more than half an hour. The patient may also experience symptoms such as pale complexion, sweating, decreased blood pressure, slow heartbeat, shallow and slow breathing, decreased muscle tone, and slow or absent various physiological reflexes. In most patients with reversible mild concussion, the central nervous system function recovers rapidly from bottom to top, from the cervical spinal cord-medulla oblongata-brainstem to the cerebral cortex; while in irreversible severe concussion, it may be a top-down inhibition process, which interrupts the function of the medullary respiratory center and circulatory center for too long, thus leading to death.

2. Retrograde amnesia (recent amnesia): After the patient regains consciousness, he cannot recall the situation at the time of injury or even a period of time before the injury. The more severe the concussion and the longer the primary coma, the more obvious the recent amnesia is, but he can recall past events (remote memory). This may be related to damage to the hippocampus.

3. No positive signs were found in neurological examination.

4. Patients in the recovery period of concussion often have symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, insomnia, etc., which usually disappear gradually within weeks to months. However, some patients have long-term symptoms such as dizziness, headache, insomnia, irritability, inattention and memory loss. Some of them are recovery symptoms. If there is no obvious improvement after 3 to 6 months, in addition to considering whether there are mental factors, detailed examination and analysis should be carried out to see if there is any delayed damage. Do not use the term "sequelae of concussion" to sum it up, which will increase the mental burden of the patient.

The above are the common manifestations of mild concussion. When a concussion is discovered, the main symptom is a brief coma, and severe cases are short-term shock. Different symptoms have different effects on the human body. If you find a concussion in your daily life, you must detect it early and treat it early. The diagnosis of the disease mainly involves clinical examinations and other treatments.