Brain Injury

After a serious accident, you may feel relieved if you are able to drive home afterwards without any serious injuries. But it’s important to recognize that your relief may be short-lived. Some injuries, including traumatic brain injuries, often take hours or even days to show up. By the time a victim is able to recognize…

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease are three neurological disorders commonly diagnosed after an injury. If you suffer an injury for any reason and have even the slightest suspicion there may be neurological involvement, seek medical help right away. Doctors can evaluate and treat your injuries and provide you relief, more often…

Individuals who strike their heads in motor vehicle collisions, slip and falls, sports-related accidents, bicycle crashes, or even pedestrian accidents may develop a traumatic brain injury. They can also occur when there is no impact to the head itself.  Brain injuries are very complex injuries that often require immediate and ongoing treatment. If you do…

When a person is involved in a motorcycle, car, or truck accident, they may hit their head, causing a diffuse axonal injury (DAI). After being diagnosed with this severe brain injury, the individual’s life will never be the same. They will need to learn how to carry out their daily obligations and duties in a…

It’s difficult (and potentially unethical) to try to pinpoint the exact cost of a catastrophic injury. Every case is different, and the financial burden from an injury will be specific to each person and family. After all, if you can’t work, you can’t pay your bills – and there are a lot of medical bills…

According to the CDC, 2.8 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year. TBI encompasses a wide range of physical traumas, from the mildest concussion to the most serious cognitive damages. People tend to assume they could never experience such an injury, leading many injured people to not to seek medical attention. After…

The family of a model was recently awarded $29.5 million in a case when a pretzel caused extensive brain damage. The award, by a jury in a Las Vegas Nevada court, was entered against a health care service that the jury deemed negligent because the company failed in its duty of care to properly treat…

It’s critical to diagnose traumatic brain injuries as soon as possible. The faster a diagnosis can be made, the faster patients can be treated. Early intervention may help minimize the severity of the injury. Traumatic brain injuries often occur due to accidents – such as car accidents, construction accidents, falls on the premises of a…

As the country braces for another potential, partial shutdown over rising coronavirus numbers, new studies are being produced about the effects the disease is having. One such study has fund that about one in seven COVID patients will suffer neurological problems, even though the virus does not directly infect the brain or the nerves. Researchers…