There exist two modes of injury in TBI. The first of these is the initial mechanical insult as described in the prior post and depicted in Figure 1 of that post. The second mode of injury, potentially the more severe, is the biochemical insult that follows subsequent to the mechanical insult and commences within a period of between 1 and 4 hours. This biochemical insult is triggered by the initial injury.
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PCS Thesis – Injury Modalities
This post introduces two biological mechanisms believed to have contributed to the severity of the subject’s mTBI. On the balance of evidence, there is strong reason to believe that either, or both, of these injury modalities may play a significant role in the severity of mTBI injury, and therefore serve as contributing factors to the symptomology described as PCS.
PCS Thesis – The Accident
The subject is a 64 year old male who was 5 months short of his 59th birthday on March 6th, 2011 when he was rear-ended at approximately 1935 hours while his vehicle was stopped at a light.