BRAIN INJURY LAWYER

One of the most heartbreaking of grievance to occur to an adult or child is serious traumatic brain injury. Inflicting 1,000,000 individuals each year, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can take away any chance of a normal life for people of all walks of life.

Serious cases of TBI leave the brain in various stages of debilitation, affecting many cognitive, physical, and psychological skills. Physical limitations include lack of coordination, balance, fine motor skills, endurance, and strength. In some cases, victims of TBI loose complete ability to move their body in any way.  Cognitive disorders caused by TBI include problems in cognition, language and communication, memory, information processing, and even consciousness. Psychologically, serious TBI victims suffer bouts of depression, bipolar disorder, manic episodes, a desire to withdrawal from the world, and anxiety, among other afflictions.

The brain is an incredibly complicated instrument, running and managing billions of processes in the body. Damage to this area can not only be debilitating, but fatal. Brain injury occurs when physical trauma to the head temporarily interrupts a person's normal brain function. This may be caused by disease, metabolic problems, lack of oxygen, or poisoning. A closed injury occurs when no invasive damage is caused to the skull. Open wounds, as from bullets, can cause even greater damage to the soft tissue of the brain.  

There are many types of Traumatic Brain Injury, with varying degrees of severity.

• Tearing occurs when the delicate tissue of the brain is torn apart, usually cause by the swift impact of the head with another object (like a baseball bat). X-rays and MRIs, unfortunately do not always elucidate these injuries, leaving victims unknowingly injured for weeks, months, or years.
• Bruising is also caused by heavy impact to the skull. The soft brain tissue is forced into the harder skull, rupturing small blood vessels and allowing blood to escape to other areas of the brain unsuitable for blood. This additionally causes a great deal of pressure, causing the brain to stop functioning in some areas. This result can be detrimental to the body, causing paralysis and other serious, permanent damage.
• Swelling of the brain can be life-threatening to the traumatic brain injury victim. Because the brain is surrounded by hard bone and cannot expand to relieve pressure (like other parts of the body that become injured). The brain swells within the confines of the skull, causing greater damages than the original injury that prompted the swelling.

Anoxic brain injuries are another type of serious injury to the delicate brain. Occurring when the brain is deprived of oxygen for long periods of time, this injury is seen in victims of drowning, choking, and strangulation. The results can be painful and permanent, leaving victims paralyzed or cognitively unbalanced for the rest of their lives.