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Anon 1:06
If only assessing pain and discomfort was open to objective criteria only, but it isn't as any doctor will tell you. There is a range of behaviour that can follow an accident, all of which can be reasonable and within the expected range of reaction, even if that reaction is incomprehensible to the average 'man on the omnibus'

All pain- the experience of pain and the reaction to it is subjective. Its an old adage of PI law but you take your victim as you find them and some people have thinner skulls than others.
There are studies out there where experimental subjects complained of injury when they were subject to a car being dropped on its suspension and (an unseen) glass object being broken behind them to replicate the sensation of being involved in an accident. This complaint of injury was made despite there being no physical chance of any injury and no possibility of any compensation on offer.

No matter how much the ABI would like to convince otherwise, the power of the mind is a factor.