Traumatic Brain Injuries

Injuries involving a brain injury require a particular area of study for attorneys, an exquisite knowledge of the medicine involved as well as experience in trying these matters.

There are generally two types of brain injury that we see. They both involve the degree of injury.  There is a traumatic brain injury, which is a very obvious change in brain function.  There is also what has been known as MTBI, mild traumatic brain injury.  In our experience, both types of injury cause devasting and long-term damages.

Essentially, a concussion is a type of mild traumatic brain injury.  One may recover from multiple concussions, but these injuries are not like a mild strain that recovers or some other type of mild injury that recovers time after time. Concussions and the damages caused to the brain are cumulative. In other words, each insult to the brain causes damage more easily.  Therefore, anyone who suffers a mild traumatic brain injury is more susceptible to sustaining a second or third MTBI due to the cumulative nature of the injury itself.

People who suffer these injuries many times suffer an orthopedic injury as well.  Once the MTBI,  or TBI, is recognized your doctor will send you to an experienced neurologist to start cognitive therapy, speech therapy, and many other specialized palliatives to work your way back to recovery.

If you want experience on your side in this or any other injury matter, call me.