Vehicle crashes often cause permanent and catastrophic injuries. The speed and force of the vehicles causes drivers and passengers to strike dashboards, windows, and each other. Many times, a victim’s head is shaken and rotated in addition to the direct physical impact. Most patients should be checked out at a local emergency room or by [...]
Defense lawyers will often try to argue that you can’t really have a traumatic brain injury because standard diagnostic tests don’t objectively prove your injury. Well, the truth is that many times imaging tests are far from conclusive. To diagnose a TBI, health care providers may use one or more tests that assess a person's [...]
Traumatic brain injury cases are comprised of two specific types diagnosed by doctors. These are: primary traumatic brain injury and secondary brain injury. Primary brain injuries occur from the moment of the initial incident causing the trauma. Examples of a primary brain injury are a blow to the head, a fracture, or contusion – these [...]
Doctors, researchers, and scientists have made amazing inroads into understanding the brain and how it works. However, there are still endless things about it we don't understand. And, because the brain handles so many roles in so many important bodily functions, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have long-term and serious implications. Medical professionals are [...]
It's the beginning of the school year, and for many kids, that means the start of sports season. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has also kicked off the school year by releasing new guidelines for doctors and families to care for children who've suffered a head injury or concussion. These new guidelines, released in [...]
PsychCentral reported on August 1, 2018 that a new medical device is ready to help doctors evaluate whether someone is likely to have a mild traumatic brain injury. The normal methods for diagnosing a traumatic brain injury are computed tomography (CT) scans and Glasgow coma scale evaluations. CT scans are costly and include the risk [...]
Researchers believe that children and young adults between 3 and 29 years-of-age are four times more likely to develop a traumatic brain injury if they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than if they don’t. The study examined insurance information on 72,000 people with ADHD and in that age range, against a control group of [...]
A concussion is also called a “mild traumatic brain injury,” but we think that term is deceiving: after all, the word “traumatic” is still part of that description. No matter how mild it might be, a brain injury is a brain injury. When a child gets a concussion, such as in a car accident or [...]
According to Science Daily, a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows hope that some brain molecules may actually help to treat brain damage. The Penn study was reported in the Neurobiology of Disease. The study focused on the molecules that help prevent certain proteins that are associated [...]
Understanding how to help TBI victims is a national concern. A recent Penn Medicine article profiled some of the unique challenges that traumatic brain injury victims cope with. The Penn article cites figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Per their research, TBI injuries – which can be caused be a car accident, [...]
