Experts highlight the limited clinical ability to assess traumatic brain injury, as a combat medic's brain damage goes undetected by scans.
We’re really at an infant stage in terms of our clinical ability to assess traumatic brain injury. A combat medic and instructor who taught SEALs how to breach buildings with explosives was convinced years of exposure to blasts had badly damaged his brain, despite doctors telling him otherwise. He had downloaded dozens of research papers on traumatic brain injury out of frustration that no one was taking him seriously.
No scan can detect that level of brain trauma while a person is alive, according to experts. And while there is a tool that may be able to track some changes, it is mostly limited to research purposes
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