Category: Brain Injuries

Traumatic brain injury symptoms include stretches of unconsciousness, amnesia or both; dulled cognitive abilities, like reduced attention span, weakness in limbs, impaired coordination and difficulty maintaining balance, damaged vision and hearing loss, and emotional disorders li...

During the holidays, many families are planning trips around the country to meet with loved ones. For some families, it is more convenient to meet at a location that is central to them all, staying in a hotel or other vacation property. That convenience may come at a high cost Wh...

The consequences of traumatic brain injuries, particularly those that result in long-term or permanent disability of the injured person, are not always confined to the person who incurred the injury. The damage to the relationships of the injured person with his or her loved ones...

Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, is a term that relates to a broad variety of conditions, disabilities and symptoms. It can have a devastating effect on those affected and their loved ones. In general, it occurs through accidents or actions that cause damage to the head and by ext...

Injuries resulting from an accident that the fault of which is attributable to someone else, or from a reckless or even purposeful act, can result not only in financial losses but also in forced changes to the way that you and your loved ones live. Nowhere is this more true than ...

Growing up with cuts, bruises and knots on the head from playing outside are sometimes considered summer trophies for kids. And while most of the time these minor injuries simply heal themselves within a couple of weeks, some have a more lasting effect — and are often the least...

Young people often do not consider the consequences of their actions, and sometimes it is others who are affected the most. A 15-year-old girl sustained serious head injuries when she fell from the back of an SUV in Abilene. The SUV was in motion in a supermarket parking lot. Aft...

The human brain is one of the most powerful (perhaps the most powerful) and complex structures in the history of creation on this planet, an electrochemical dynamo that still makes even the most modern supercomputers look simple. Yet for all its sophistication and problem-solving...

Not that long ago we posted about the general causes and consequences of suffering a traumatic brain injury, but what about some of the specific kinds of such injuries? How many variations are there, and how may they relate to possible negligent causation? Most often, traumati...

On the topic of brain injuries, few developments have garnered more attention recently than the concussion controversy in the National Football League. For almost a year and a half, courts have received filings from approximately 5,000 former football players alleging that to inc...