If you suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a car accident, it could take a long time to heal. The path to healing is often extensive, sometimes involving months in the hospital and months or even years of recovery at home. Sustaining a TBI is a significant event...
Brain Injuries
You need to build a case for compensation after a brain injury
Different kinds of injuries create different hurdles and complications. If you hurt your brain in an accident, it can be particularly difficult to prove the exact nature and symptoms of the injury. Compared with a fracture or a spinal injury, traumatic brain injuries...
How traumatic brain injuries impact your earning potential
You have to work hard to get a job that pays you well for the work you do. The best paying jobs, other than those that involve entertainment or athletics, generally require either years of experience or an expensive education. When you know what you are passionate...
A car crash can lead to a traumatic brain injury
It doesn't matter how much caution you take when you're behind the wheel, you never know if another driver will make a mistake that causes an accident. This can be as simple as another person sending a text message when he or she should be paying attention to the...
5 TBI symptoms that can ruin your small business
You're a small business owner, and you're proud of what you've built. Perhaps you're in your 40s, but you have a business that has been your sole source of income for a decade. You plan to help it grow even more and pass it on to your kids. You've put everything you...
2 types of traumatic brain injuries caused by car accidents
As noted by professionals at Northeastern University, car accidents are one of the common causes of traumatic brain injuries. There are two main kinds of TBI that you should be aware of: closed injuries and open injuries. The biggest defining difference is the state...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease exposure possible for 18 patients
Colorado residents contemplating surgery may be interested in a recent announcement by Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in North Carolina that a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease had surgery for neurological problems at their facility on Jan. 18, 2013. The...
Prosthetic may offer positive future for brain injury patients
Colorado residents may welcome the results of recent neurological experiments carried out at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Present and future sufferers of brain injury from medical malpractice, car accident or any other cause may benefit from a device used...
Concussion patients prematurely discharged
A concussion is caused by trauma to the brain that is usually the result of hitting the head on or with an object. Colorado skiers and football players who are at risk of suffering a concussion might wish to know that the Journal of Neurology recently published an...
Minor traumatic brain injuries difficult to diagnose
While many Colorado residents may have heard about TBI, or traumatic brain injury, many may not know that most of these are actually minor injuries. This does not mean that minor TBI, or mTBI, is nothing to be concerned about. It was reported that mTBI is actually a...