Why are brain injuries in children complicated?
Infants, children and teenagers can develop significant consequences following traumatic brain injury, whether mild, moderate, or severe, with or without loss of consciousness. These consequences can have a devastating impact on their quality of life for the rest of their lives. What may appear to be late developing cognitive emotional behavioural and other problems may be the consequence of a paediatric traumatic brain injury. We are committed to helping children, teenagers and adults avoid a lifetime of suffering from the consequences of traumatic brain injury without proper diagnosis and understanding or help. Infants and children who suffer traumatic brain injury are thought to recover completely and then years later when the child starts to have cognitive emotional and/or behavioural problems, the teachers, parents and health care providers may blame the child, without thinking of the traumatic brain injury. Those parts of the child’s brain that were injured and damaged may not ha
