How a Personal Injury Attorney Can Help You Understand Brain Trauma

Life often confronts us with extremely unfortunate situations and accidents, sometimes resulting in terrible injuries. While almost all types of injuries cause pain, loss, and suffering for a long time.

Brain injuries, especially traumatic ones have the potential to create havoc in your life.

Traumatic Brain Injuries also referred to as TBI, can affect your brain severely enough to never allow it regain its normal functions ever. TBI, unlike other injuries, do not heal without already affecting your brain functions, mental abilities, and personality. Considering this extreme nature of TBI, most victims are advised to claim compensation with the help of a personal injury attorney. However, this can be done only when the TBI results from someone’s negligence or wrong action. So, let us first understand the basics of traumatic brain injuries.

Causes of Traumatic Brain Injuries

TBI can be of two types namely, open-head injuries and closed-head injuries. As their very names suggest, open head injuries are those in which the trauma has penetrated the skull. The damage is localized to the brain area that is penetrated and the immediate area surrounding it.

Open head injuries that show signs of deep penetration can be severe enough to cause permanent disability or death. This particular type of TBI mostly results from bullets shot from a gun.

Closed head injuries, on the other hand, result from a blow to the head, which does not reach the skull. The blow is such that it tears the tissue of the brain, present in the frontal and temporal lobes. This leads to injury to the nerves linking the brain cells together.

Gradually, this catastrophic injury can spread throughout the brain causing serious consequences. The effects can be diverse from mild ones to even death. Closed head injuries usually result from slip and fall, motorbike or car accident, a deliberate blow and so on.

Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injuries

TBI, especially closed head injuries are often without symptoms for a very long time and this is what makes them all the more dangerous. When a person injures his hand, leg or any other part of his body, the effect is immediately visible and the treatment is, should be initiated without delay.

Brain injuries too can be visible at times when the victim becomes senseless right after the injury. But in most other cases of TBI, symptoms do not show up for days and months together. The victim might first experience and then relate the symptoms only when he/she has difficulty in reasoning, speaking or when there is some visible change in his personality. These symptoms often go unnoticed and unobserved until it is too late and the injury has already spread throughout the brain.

Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injuries

TBIs often go unnoticed as they fail to register on diagnostics imaging. Effects like tearing, bleeding and a few others appear on CAT scans and MRIs but the damage to the brain cells connecting nerve tissues is hardly diagnosed.

Some victims may suffer symptoms like nausea, vomiting or neck pain but when these appear after a long time since the injury occurred, these are usually misdiagnosed, leading to more threatening consequences.

How Can Personal Injury Lawyers Help Victims of TBI?

Considering that Traumatic Brain Injuries are so serious, it is essential that you stay aware of the legal steps that you can take in case the TBI has resulted from a third party negligence. These cases are quite common and the disability lawyers are always willing to take forward your claim.

TBI lacks symptoms but when misdiagnosed, could lead to diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s, Epilepsy and so on. As such, these diseases can cause you or your loved ones a significant loss of money apart from loss of valuable time and extreme pain and suffering.

The negligent party is both legally and financially responsible for covering up or compensating your losses. The process might have legal complexities but all that you need to do is to trust a personal injury lawyer and provide him/her with all the details of your injury. The lawyer will guide you in the right direction and ensure that at least a part of your losses is compensated for.

You shouldn’t neglect any injuries that you’ve suffered due to an accident, especially a head injury. If you or your loved one has been a victim, talk to a personal injury lawyer at The Law Offices of Alvin de Levie. Contact us today at 844-777-2529 and get a free consultation about what your next steps should be.