After a Collision — Brain Health Neurology

Why You Are Here

Your car was totaled, or it was not. Either way you walked out of the emergency room with discharge papers and a headache. Weeks later the headache faded and something else did not. You lose the thread in conversations. You reread the same email. You are more irritable than you have ever been.

Everyone told you the scan was clean, so this must be sleep, or legal stress. Possibly. But a clean CT means there was no bleeding and no fracture. It is a test for emergencies, not a measurement of how well your brain is working.

No one has likely ever measured that. Not before the accident, and not since. Which means when you say you are not the same, you have nothing to point at.

The Evidence

This is well documented. It is just not well acted on.

Five findings from the peer-reviewed literature. Every source is linked below.

1
Crashes are one of the three leading causes of traumatic brain injury in the United States. In a single surveillance year, roughly 2.5 million Americans went to an emergency department for a traumatic brain injury. Taylor et al., CDC Surveillance Summaries, 2017
2
A clean scan does not mean a clean recovery. Among 991 patients who arrived fully alert with a completely normal head CT, 56% had not returned to their prior level of function six months later. Madhok et al., JAMA Network Open, 2022
3
It lasts longer than anyone tells you. In a study of 1,154 patients with mild traumatic brain injury, 53% still reported injury-related limitations in daily life a full year after the accident. Nelson et al., JAMA Neurology, 2019
4
Emergency imaging misses things. When patients with normal CT scans were given MRI about a week later, a substantial share showed injury the CT had not detected — and those findings predicted worse outcomes at three months. Yuh et al., Annals of Neurology, 2013
5
Cognition itself can be measured. The assessment used here was validated against a normative sample of 1,069 people aged 7 to 90, with reliability comparable to conventional pencil-and-paper neuropsychological testing. Gualtieri & Johnson, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2006

How It Works

Three touches. One plan.

01

Measure

A validated computerized assessment that takes about 45 minutes — set aside an hour. Most online cognitive screens run ten and measure almost nothing. You take this one at home, on a desktop or laptop with a keyboard. It scores nine cognitive domains against age-matched norms. Dr. Lowe reviews your results before you speak.

02

Interpret

An unhurried consultation, about an hour. Your history in real detail, then What your results show, what they do not show, and what is worth doing about them.

03

Act

Within two business days: a written plan naming three prioritized things worth acting on first, with the peer-reviewed research behind every recommendation in it.

04

Review

A scheduled 30-minute call to go through the plan together — what it means, where to start, and how to fit it into your actual life.

If you have an attorney.

Many people who come to us after a collision are also working with a personal injury attorney. Your assessment results and written plan are yours, and you are free to share them with anyone you choose — including your lawyer.

This is not a legal service and it is not prepared for litigation. It is a health assessment, ordered by you, for your own understanding. What you do with the results afterward is entirely your decision.

Get it measured.

One flat fee. No insurance, no referral, and no one telling you everything is normal again.

$599

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A CT of your head can rule out a brain bleed.