{"id":4565,"date":"2026-05-12T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/prior-concussions-significantly-increase-the-risk-of-long-term-disability-after-a-motor-vehicle-crash-downs-rachlin-martin-pllc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:27:09","slug":"prior-concussions-significantly-increase-the-risk-of-long-term-disability-after-a-motor-vehicle-crash-downs-rachlin-martin-pllc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/prior-concussions-significantly-increase-the-risk-of-long-term-disability-after-a-motor-vehicle-crash-downs-rachlin-martin-pllc\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Concussions Significantly Increase the Risk of Long-Term Disability after a Motor Vehicle Crash | Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"html-view-content\">\n<p>A Canadian Study published on-line in January 2026 by the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Network Open, finds that a history of prior concussion is associated with a 15% increase in the risk of long-term disability following a motor vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined more than 900,000 adult car crash patients, including approximately 20,000 with a history of prior concussion.<\/p>\n<p>These two groups shared a diverse range of demographic characteristics, medical diagnoses, and socioeconomic status. \u00a0The study found that patients with a history of concussion were significantly more likely (15%) to suffer from long-term disability after a motor vehicle crash (defined as qualifying for long-term disability benefits according to social service records.) \u00a0The increased risk extended across a spectrum of crash severity and existed regardless of how far back the prior concussion occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The authors undertook the study to test the hypothesis that prior concussion may \u201clead to neurocognitive complications and residual impairments that limit a patient\u2019s health\u201d and therefore \u2018lessen recovery after a later injury.\u201d Although the methodology of the study does not permit clear conclusions concerning causation, it does support this hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>Based on their findings, the authors urge measures to reduce the risk of concussion, and counseling patients with a history of concussion to take extra measures to avoid re-injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian Study published on-line in January 2026 by the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Network Open, finds that a history of prior concussion is associated with a 15% increase in the risk of long-term disability following a motor vehicle crash. The study examined more than 900,000 adult car crash patients, including approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3371,1240,1437,3375,1092,3373,3377,3374,2672,1148,3376,426,3372,1443],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-concussions","tag-crash","tag-disability","tag-downs","tag-increase","tag-longterm","tag-martin","tag-motor","tag-pllc","tag-prior","tag-rachlin","tag-risk","tag-significantly","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}