Traumatic Brain Injury Attorney Chandler Arizona
Traumatic brain injury is a very interesting area of the law and of medicine. It’s, often known as the invisible injury and the reason why it’s called the invisible injury is oftentimes, especially in cases of minor, traumatic, brain injury.
We will see clients or brain injury victims if you will who walk in and look and appear normal and what really comes down to is witnesses. You can tell you what the individuals like before and then after we take these cases on, we tend to work as a team with a number of physicians to help illustrate just how severe an injury this is and how it will affect my client going forward.
With diminished durability and their quality of life and their ability to hold a job, are they having issues with irritability, dizziness, headaches, or just cognitive symptoms? These are hallmarks of traumatic, brain injury, and when I talk about putting together a team, we often bring in a neuropsychologist someone who can actually illustrate what are the cognitive deficits at this individual now suffers from for more information on traumatic brain injury check out my website.
The brain controls a person’s ability to think, feel, talk, see, hear, remember, and so much more. An injury to either the brain or spinal cord can take away those functions in an instant.
Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms-Time Is Of The Essence
Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) can have devastating effects and long-term consequences for the victim and can have a dramatic impact on the lives of the people around him/her. The results of brain injuries can range from concussions and comas to permanent loss of one’s short-term or long-term memory, loss of cognitive abilities, and extreme personality changes.
If you or someone close to you has suffered from brain injuries caused by another person or entity, please allow our personal injury team to take some of the burdens. We understand the stress you are under because of the injury. Do not burden yourself further by dealing with the case on your own or by hiring an unqualified lawyer.
Types of Traumatic Brain Injuries
Concussion-Traumatic Brain Injury
The most common type of brain trauma, both closed and open head injuries can result from concussions. These are typically triggered by blunt force trauma or blows to the head, intense and powerful shaking of the victim’s head, and especially car collision type whiplash movements. Whiplash and sudden shaking of a person’s head and neck can take place at just 5 MPH in car-related accidents.
One must realize concussion can lead to post-concussion syndrome post-concussion condition, which is a very dangerous disorder and can linger for a few months to a year or more. The Medical profession has decided to stop referring to concussions as mild traumatic brain injury or MTBI because the brain injuries were felt to be downplayed in their seriousness.
- dizziness
- headaches
- anxiety
- difficulty sleeping
- irritability
- inability to concentrate
- depression
- memory loss
All concussion demands immediate medical attention and must never be ignored nor overlooked by attorneys and physicians who concentrate on the more obvious orthopedic injuries.
Any type of concussive force can greatly hinder your ability to complete normal daily activities of living tasks and can interfere with your ability to complete job functions. All brain injuries can affect people differently especially if you have had a previous brain injury or suffered a previous heat stroke and or dehydration. Many people think that most individuals with concussions recover after a period of rest time. This is merely an observation and is not considered good medical advice.
That is why if you or a loved one have suffered any type of brain injury we work with Medical Doctor and neurologist and we can get you an appointment with these medical professionals who will work on a lien and wait to get paid for their medical services until your claim settles.
Contusion- Traumatic Brain Injury
A contusion is a severe brain bruising or bleeding as a direct result of impact trauma to the skull. A cerebral contusion as defined by Wikipedia is a bruise to the brain tissue. Symptoms of contusion also vary from victim to victim and are depicted by how severe the brain bleed is and where the bleed affects the brain tissue. Another reason contusion symptoms are different among victims is that during a brain bleed there is usually a release of toxins known as a chemical cascade that can affect the brain tissue also.
Typically, when head trauma is noted, victims are rushed to the nearest emergency room. The emergency room doctor has a standard of duty to order all the standard testing procedures to diagnose a traumatic brain injury. The main duty an ER Physician has is to either hospitalize you for further diagnostics or release you to go home. Just because you are released to go home does not mean you have a clean bill of health. Sometimes MRIs and CT scans do not provide all of the information needed to make a solid TBI diagnosis. So if you are released from the ER and you are not making continual and noticeable improvement we suggest going to a Neurologist.
As traumatic brain injury attorneys in Chandler Arizona, we are up to date on the best technologies and tests for TBIs, and will ensure that you receive the proper care and treatment when dealing with TBI.
Car Accident Attorney Chandler consistently deals with insurance adjusters, insurance defense lawyers, and even physicians who are unfamiliar with TBI and the relationship between a potential closed head injury and whiplash.
Many practitioners are mistakenly under the assumption that the head must strike an object to cause trauma to the brain. This is simply not true. It is essential to retain an injury law attorney who is not only familiar with TBIs but also the latest science in this rapidly evolving area of medicine.
