Can you get Ataxia from a head injury?

ok i wrote not long ago about my son hitting his head. well i am still going through symptoms and now they diagnosed him with possible ataxia which is ( Ataxia 聽(Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Lack of coordination in the muscles. Ataxia, an extreme lack of coordination of the muscles, is a symptom of damage to the central nervous system) he is being referred to a pediactric neuro doctor. i just want to know if his head injury could have caused it?

Since the brain is the control center of the nervous system, yes. Many brain injured persons are ataxic - but that does not mean it will last forever.

Yes it can. If you hit your head hard enough to damage the brain.

This website goes over everything about it:

http://www.ataxia.org.uk/page.builder/ca...

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