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Recovering From These Accidents Can Be Devastating

Head trauma can be mild or severe, and everything in between. Milder cases are often not diagnosed and since you mightn’t lose consciousness with a mild injury, you might never connect any later symptoms with this head trauma.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) refers to serious brain injury. It occurs in the U.S. over 2 million times each year, whether from:

• Road accidents;
• Falls;
• Sports injuries;
• Diving accidents;
• Amusement park accidents; or
• Criminal acts.

Open Head Injuries

Injury to the head can be quite obvious in what’s called an open head injury, because there’ll be a visible puncture or fracture, with bleeding, swelling, and/or loss of consciousness.

Closed Head Injuries

In a closed head injury, the skull isn’t fractured or punctured, but there’s injury to the brain. The brain itself can be bruised by being knocked violently around inside the skull and hitting up against the skull bones

Concussion

This is a degree of unconsciousness, with the symptoms of:

• Changed breathing — rapid or slowed down
• Weak pulse
• Nausea
• Dizziness
• Temporary amnesia

When you wake from a concussion you'll probably have a bad headache and perhaps blurry vision. If the concussion is severe enough, you could fall into a coma.

Repeated concussions, such as sometimes happen to sports players, can cause permanent brain damage.

Dangerous Consequences

Besides causing concussion, a closed head injury can have even more dangerous consequences, such as:

• Little blood vessels in the area being broken, so that blood seeps out and accumulates inside the skull. This creates pressure on the brain because the skull doesn’t enlarge to accommodate the extra contents.
• The brain itself can swell because of blood or other fluid seepage inside its tissue. Again this creates pressure on the brain.
• Pooling blood can form a hard clot
• Broken blood vessels can reduce the blood supply to the brain, depriving it of oxygen (known as anoxic brain injury).
• Nerve fibers can be broken, resulting in loss of either sensory function or motor function, or both.

Injury to the brain isn’t always immediately obvious and sometimes goes undiagnosed.

Consequences of Brain Injury

Although some injuries can be reversed, usually over a period of time, many can't, and they leave the person with permanent disability, such as:

• Lower body paralysis (paraplegia)
• Upper and lower body paralysis (quadriplegia)
• Loss of some voluntary or involuntary motor functions
• Loss of reasoning and thinking abilities
• Memory loss
• Sensory loss, e.g. sight, speech or hearing
• Emotional illness, e.g. post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, etc.

Negligence

If someone's negligence causes your brain injury, you could be entitled to damages, such as:

• Current and future medical costs
• Pain and suffering
• Long-term nursing care
• Loss of current and future earnings
• Property damage
• Loss of enjoyment and in some cases
• Punitive damages

Negligence could happen in a hospital, from careless medical treatments, or non-diagnosis of brain injury. It could happen in schools, where the sports coach doesn't notice your child was injured enough to need medical attention and sends him back into the game.

If You or A Loved One Has Sustained A Head Injury

• If it's clearly severe, seek immediate medical attention.
• If you apparently recover and can walk around and function, don’t assume that there's no lingering damage.
  Here are some symptoms to watch for:
  • Numbness, weakness, or decreasing coordination
  • Repeated vomiting
  • Worsening headaches
  • One pupil larger than the other
  • Convulsions or seizures
  • Slurred speech
  • Increasing confusion or agitation

Don't delay in consulting a brain injury lawyer. A lawsuit over a severe brain injury will require complex medical evidence and expert witnesses will be essential for the successful resolution of your case. You need a brain injury attorney with some medical knowledge to find the best witnesses and to negotiate and litigate your case.

Every Brain Injury Is Different

An experienced brain injury attorney can assess the particular facts of your case and decide on the action that will lead to the best possible compensation for your injuries.

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