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TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURY LAWYERS

Over 700,000 people in North America suffer traumatic brain injury, or TBI, each year, and between 70,000 and 90,000 are left with a permanent disability. Approximately half of these injuries result in quadriplegia (loss of movement in both arms and legs), and many more in paraplegia.


  

Incidents resulting in TBI, whether automobile collisions, construction site accidents, or product liability, are often the subject of personal injury lawsuits and litigation. Brain and spinal cord injuries often cause severe physical and psychological consequences, and result in more years of lost productivity than any other injury.

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  The following is a list of the various regions of the brain, and the functions controlled by the respective region:    

CEREBERAL CORTEX

Frontal Lobe:
Most anterior, right under the forehead.
Functions:

  • How we know what we are doing within our environment (Consciousness).
  • How we initiate activity in response to our environment.
  • Judgments we make about what occurs in our daily activities.
  • Controls our emotional response.
  • Controls our expressive language.
  • Assigns meaning to the words we choose.
  • Involves word associations.
  • Memory for habits and motor activities.


  

Observed Problems:

  • Loss of simple movement of various body parts (Paralysis).
  • Inability to plan a sequence of complex movements needed to complete multi-stepped tasks, such as making coffee.
  • Persistence of a single thought.
  • Inability to focus on task.
  • Mood changes.
  • Changes in social behavior.
  • Changes in personality.
  • Difficulty with problem solving.
  • Inability to express language.

  
         


   

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One of the worst things about traumatic brain injury ("TBI") is that you can't see it. An individual who suffers from a brain injury usually looks and acts perfectly normal to the outside. Inside, however, something very different may be going on. This presents a problem to the attorney handling a TBI case, and is further complicated by society's ever increasing critical views about personal injury cases in general, especially those where the injury is not self-evident.

            People who have been in an automobile accident, had a fall, or are otherwise traumatized often suffer from a "shearing" injury, where brain tissue is torn against the sharp edges of the skull. Moreover, the incidence of traumatic brain injury in this country is about 1 new case per 500 people annually! Approximately 10 percent of these cases are classified as severe. The others, often considered "mild TBI," produce anything other than a "mild" effects on the accident victim. "Mild" brain injury victims suffer symtoms severe enough to disrupt memory, mood, basic cognitive functioning. The general feeling is that a traumatic brain injury victim is a "different person" than before the injury.