{"id":6200,"date":"2025-07-19T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6200\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:38:11","slug":"school-bus-crash-victim-still-in-pain-two-years-after-doctors-missed-concussion-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6200\/","title":{"rendered":"School bus crash victim still in pain two years after doctors missed concussion diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Cadin and his twin brother Ashton’s school bus crashed, their mother Naomi Maynard thought the worst.<\/p>\n

“When I arrived, Cadin had just been rescued from the bus. He was talking, he was aware, but I could see that there were so many other injuries that he was concerned about,” Maynard said.<\/p>\n

Concussion wasn’t front of her mind.<\/p>\n

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\"BusWhen Cadin and his twin brother Ashton’s school bus crashed, their mother Naomi Maynard thought the worst. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

The bus overturned in Melbourne’s outer west in May 2023, when it was hit from behind by a truck.<\/p>\n

On board were 45 primary school students.<\/p>\n

When Maynard arrived at the scene, just six minutes from her home, all she could do was hold her son Cadin’s toes.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t till we got to the hospital and they started removing his clothes that they realised all his back was full of glass and dirt,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ashton suffered a bump to the head and was concussed.<\/p>\n

Maynard was told by doctors to look out for Ashton’s concussion symptoms but not Cadin’s.<\/p>\n

“They pretty much cleared [Cadin] for any brain injury. I just trusted the professionals.They said, ‘no, he’s fine, he’s talking’,” Maynard told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

\"BusThe bus overturned in Melbourne’s outer west in May 2023, when it was hit from behind by a truck. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

Weeks went by and Ashton’s concussion cleared up but Cadin’s symptoms only worsened.<\/p>\n

“He looked drunk,” Maynard said.<\/p>\n

“I remember watching him in a hallway and he just literally fell down”.<\/p>\n

Cadin had been living with dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, blurred vision and headaches since the accident.<\/p>\n

It took seven months for medical professionals to take Naomi’s fears seriously and diagnose Cadin with post concussion syndrome and chronic pain syndrome.<\/p>\n

\"BusCadin had been living with dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, blurred vision and headaches since the accident. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

“Cadin was definitely concussed, he had concussion and they missed it,” Naomi said.<\/p>\n

“Nobody knew that I had a concussion. Everybody thought I was fine,” Cadin told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

“Every time we went to a professional, whether it be the orthopedic surgeon, whether it was the doctor, they just kept saying, no, you know, it’s been ruled out,” Maynard said.<\/p>\n

It’s been two years since the crash and Cadin’s whole life is built around his concussion.<\/p>\n

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\"BusIt’s been two years since the crash and Cadin’s whole life is built around his concussion. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

“Cadin only goes to school three days due to him being extremely fatigued,” Maynard said.<\/p>\n

“I get a lot of headaches, and I just get dizzy really easy, like when I just stand up all of a sudden, I just feel a little bit wobbly,” he said.<\/p>\n

Neurophysiologist Professor Alan Pearce said the Maynards were not alone.<\/p>\n

“I see this a lot with sporting athletes who have, you know, a concussion as well as another injury, and that other injury tends to get prioritised over that, and the concussion is overlooked, and it leads towards post-concussion syndrome,” Pearce said.<\/p>\n

Pearce said Cadin’s symptoms should have resolved within 30 days.<\/p>\n

“If concussion is not considered straight away, then treatment is not administered, and that increases the risk of persistent symptoms.”<\/p>\n

Pearce believes medical professionals need more and recurrent brain injury training.<\/p>\n

“One of the things that we’re trying to advocate for is a mandatory concussion education annually, like you do for CPR,” Pearce said.<\/p>\n

Cadin’s recently started basketball, but his dream to play Aussie rules has been dashed.<\/p>\n

“He always had a dream that he wanted to become an AFL player, but he actually can’t even bring himself to go back onto the footy field,” Maynard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Cadin and his twin brother Ashton’s school bus crashed, their mother Naomi Maynard thought the worst. “When…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}