Brain Injuries

Severe brain injury results in easily observable symptoms including partial or complete paralysis, speech problems, impaired cognitive functioning, disability from employment, long periods of coma, huge hospital bills, and CT, MRI, and other brain-imaging changes. But, mild traumatic brain injuries may cause long-term residual problems with symptoms not apparent to the casual observer. The people who suffer from these brain injuries are members of a largely ignored group suffering from the "silent epidemic" of undiagnosed brain injuries. The symptoms which can occur even without loss of consciousness at the time of the traumatic event include: headaches, dizziness, lethargy, memory loss, irritability, personality changes, cognitive defects, and/or perceptual changes.

The lawyers at Webb & Scarmozzino have extensively studied traumatic brain injury and realize the special needs of our brain injured clients. Our attorneys are committed to helping not only with the litigation, but with seeing to it that the clients and there families are made aware of the top medical specialists in the field. Below are some special things to remember when a mild brain injury is suspected:

• Loss of consciousness is not required for there to have been a traumatic brain injury, for example, whiplash.
• If loss of consciousness does accompany a traumatic event, it is for a period of time of 30 minutes or less.
• Some altered state of consciousness at the time of the occurrence is expected (dazed, disoriented, nauseated and/or confused).
• Don't be concerned if the brain injury is not seen by CT or MRI testing. This is because the micro-shearing of nerve tissue and abrasions to the brain are not demonstrable using common brain-imaging techniques.