The Veteran’s Administration (“VA”) has been forced to address traumatic brain injury suffered by returning war veterans. On December 10, 2012, the Veterans’ Affairs Department officially recognized, in an administrative ruling, the association between traumatic brain injury and five separate [ Read More ]
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The Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury as Essential First Step to Recovery
It is now five weeks since my middle son suffered a concussion in wrestling. He was flipped onto his head by one of his practice partners. He felt a headache and was a little dizzy but continued to practice. He [ Read More ]
How to Prove Post-Concussion Symptoms are Real
Just as absence of loss of consciousness does not preclude a diagnosis by a medical professional of concussion, similarly, the affects of a brain injury on any one individual have been understood to not fit any particular time frame of [ Read More ]
Loss of Consciousness as a Predictor of Injury Outcome
Although it now should be clear that a concussion can be diagnosed without loss of consciousness as a symptom, would a defense expert be correct in saying that loss of consciousness signifies a mild concussion and complete recovery from any [ Read More ]
Texting, The New Drunk Driving
Smart phones are everywhere. Our faces seem to be constantly glued to catch the latest text, tweet, or Instagram to our phones. It is remarkable how often I see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant, [ Read More ]
Concussions and the Law
Trial lawyers take note: No two brain injuries are the same. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine defines mild traumatic brain injury as the traumatically induced physiologic disruption of brain function. This may manifest as any alteration in mental state [ Read More ]