TBI review and Polytrauma eval

[drago]

Hi All,

Me again... another few questions that hopefully someone can shed some insight on.

Over the last few months, as I've gotten deeper into the VA medical side, they have talked about a polytrauma referral, basically saying it could be helpful in me getting to a better place. I was involved in an incident and sustained a significant concussion. I agreed to the referral, and had an MRI that did not show any abnormalities other than something with sinuses. I'm now scheduled for a neuropsych exam. I'm not sure what all that entails, and I can't seem to find much "meat" of what polytrauma is about, other than kind of marketing info that it's "good".

So the questions:

1. Does anyone have any experience with poly-trauma, what it is, is it helpful etc? It is worth following up on and if not, are there any consequences to cancelling it out?
2. Has anyone had any experience with poly-trauma evals affecting ratings? This may just be in my head (and probably is), but it's starting to feel like things with VA medical are just data collection for VA rating side, to look to show why a veteran is over-rated (rating is too high). I'm just not feeling good about how it seems the rating side of VA can access my medical records whenever they want.

Thoughts from the group?

*BTW... I am very thankful for everyone putting up with me, and continuing to hang in there with me.

[drago]

*pwrslm-exactly.  the team in conjunction with the psych report think I may have some "syndrome" that they want the neuro to look into