For children especially, why is it so difficult to diagnose Traumatic Brain Injury?

A: Many times Traumatic Brain Injury symptoms can be maskedby other physical injuries that may cause chronic pain, depression, or emotional distress and anxiety. The physcian may focus on these more observable physical problems and chalk up TBI symptoms to the secondary effects of physical trauma, causing TBI to not diagnosed until weeks or sometimes even months later.

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