Concussions

Children are Not Miniature Adults when it comes to Brain Injury[1] Children between ages 9 and 14 make up the largest group of football players in the country, larger in total numbers than high school, college and professional players.  Until [ Read More ]

A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an injury that may have long-term consequences.   It is invisible.    It can’t be seen on an x-ray.    It can be interpreted as a personality defect by others and as a sense of failure by [ Read More ]

A recent study in Finland establishes that a severe head injury, especially during middle age, could dramatically increase the risk for developing dementia later in life. The study included 40,639 Finnish adults between the ages of 18 and 65 who [ Read More ]

I first introduced in my blogs my middle son, Dante in March of 2013, when I wrote a blog about his mild brain injury sustained wrestling his freshman year of high school, at St. Joseph’s Prep.  ( https://www.barattarussell.com/blog/the-diagnosis-of-traumatic-brain-injury-as-essential-first-step-to-recovery/#more-96).  He is a [ Read More ]

The movie “Concussion” is helping people across the country understand that a brain injury is not easily recognized when it occurs, and that if proper treatment is not provided, can result in permanent harm.   According to the CDC, head injury [ Read More ]

Often times when I first meet a client who has been harmed by the careless acts of another, I am likely to hear: “I’m not the kind of person who sues.”    I like this kind of client because I am [ Read More ]

This blog is the 3rd blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. As discussed in my previous blogs, [ Read More ]

This blog is the 2nd blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. A MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury) [ Read More ]

This blog is the 1st blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. Although one doctor’s classification of a [ Read More ]

A recent study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine concluded that position players in major league baseball who sustain concussions suffer statistically measurable dips in hitting statistics.