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The Diagnosis Of A Concussion

For diagnosing a concussion, the physician needs to see what the mechanism of injury is, affirms Dr. Brad Herskowitz, Neurologist and Medical Director of the Neurology Research Group with Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, who also says after the historical aspect It's important to see the symptoms. The specialist says 99% of the time there are no imaging studies that are helpful in diagnosis of concussions, because It's clinical and not radiological diagnosis.

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