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Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a life-altering injury that can have catastrophic results. TBI can be physical, cognitive and / or emotionally disabling. Some survivors need some supervision and care of the clock. Others struggle with a disability "invisible" never allowed to return to its total revenue potential and create a lifetime of conflict with friends, family, and themselves.
Brain injuries are often overlooked
TBI can occur without visible head wound and no loss of consciousness. Even a brief loss of consciousness may go unnoticed by the victim. Brain injuries are often overlooked by the victims and emergency medical personnel.
TBI victims are often sent home without treatment, only for the damage to continue as the pressure inside the skull. In some cases symptoms do not appear for weeks or months after injury. These symptoms can be intermittent and very confusing to the survivor of traumatic brain injuries and those who lose it.
The period of recovery after TBI is a very dangerous, especially for adolescents. If re-injured brain is cured before it can trigger a cascade of fatal events in the brain called second impact syndrome.
Whiplash
Most people do not know most of whiplash is a injury to the neck and shoulders. It is also an injury to the brain. Violent forces that cause injury to the neck in whiplash also bang your brain from inside his skull. Whiplash is an often overlooked form of traumatic brain injuries, often incurred during automobile accidents or accidents sports, and can have devastating long-term consequences.
The myth of mild brain injury "
Brain injury severity classified on the Glasgow Coma Scale. This scale measures the time the victim was unconscious and the depth of unconsciousness, not the severity of long-term injury in the brain. A "mild" brain injury can have serious consequences.
Unfortunately, incurring a brain injury is described as "mild" can not get the medical care they really need.
Consequences of brain injury
In the worst cases can be fatal TBI. Survivors can be paralyzed or suffer severe cognitive impairment and obvious. More than half of all survivors of developing epilepsy.
Those who suffer most are victims and their relatives often the victims who experience symptoms elusive and intermittent, and are often unaware that they are the result of TBI. Brain injuries can cause dramatic changes in personality, mood swings, headaches, sleep disturbances, loss of consciousness, unexplained anger and violent behavior, and problems memory.
TBI victims often have good days and bad days with intermittent fatigue, and cognitive skills that come and go. They may have seizures and loss of knowledge that are not aware of until someone who happens to witness an episode let them know.
All these symptoms may strain relations with friends, family and employers. TBI survivors often wind up very isolated. They need the support and understanding of the loved ones more than anything.
Treatment
Survival and recovery often depend on the latest treatment and rehabilitation is only available on the best treatment centers of brain damage. The right treatment can mean the difference between permanent disability and a full recovery.
About the Author
If you or a loved one has been the victim of TBI you need an experienced Brain Injury Attorney to help you get the compensation you deserve so that you can get the treatment that you need. Please contact personal injury attorneys Harvey L. Walner & Associates, LTD., in Chicago, Illinois, today.
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