Long-Covid, taking a step back to find the route etiology
"Taking a step back to look at the big picture." Created by D. Troy Roach on Midjourney (26-02-2023) Long-Covid, taking a step back to find the route etiology The TLDR: Long-Covid is essentially a minor Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) . Technically it would be Acquired Brain Injury ( ABI )... but I do not see it as fitting either term. I think there should be a new category of brain injury such as Post-Trauma Brain Injury (PTBI?). Post-Trauma is better than post-viral because it can encompass any physical damage to the brain which may be from bacteria or mold or even some kinds of chronic stress. But I will leave that debate for another post and I use mTBI or TBI below. In fact, I believe that the root cause of many diseases = mTBI. From Depression to MECFS, to MS, to Alzheimer's...to Parkinson's disease. Long Covid is just one "flavour". The exact disease is a factor of age, genetics, environment, region of the brain that is affected, cause(s), etc. Just ...