Traumatic Brain Injuries
TBI, or traumatic brain injury, happens when your brain becomes injured due to a sudden trauma or force. Your brain could be driven inside the skull by a blow (like in an auto accident), by a shaking force, or "whiplash." In either instance, your brain could suffer swelling and bruising, and in a few brain damage cases this impact is sufficient enough to rip blood vessels inside your brain, leading to intracranial bleeding.
The Jacksonville brain injury attorneys at Harris Guidi Rosner Dunlap & Rudolph, P.A. can help you determine if the brain injury you or a loved one has suffered to determine if you have a claim. Call us right away.
What's the loss as an individual suffers from a brain injury?
A few traumatic brain injuries will heal and lead to little permanent effect. However, the ones suffering permanent brain damage from a traumatic brain injury, experience a huge array of disabilities, involving these:
- Impaired communication skills
- Mood swings
- Personality changes
- Learning disabilities
- Cognitive problems
- Memory loss
- Blindness
- Seizures
- Paralysis
TBI could have a harsh effect upon quality of life, involving the inability to work, the inability to interact socially as well as in the family, and a loss of regular body skills. Severe brain damage might mean a patient needs to spend a lifetime dependent upon nursing care. Our skilled Jacksonville brain damage attorneys have the resources and background to assist in ensuring you in obtaining the financial compensation and support needed to move forward with your life.
Symptoms
Anybody who's received a blow to their head or a whiplash-like injury must see a physician to determine if brain damage took place. In most instances, symptoms of TBI might be slight, yet without treatment an injury could become worse. The symptoms might be delayed for several hours, until the swelling inside the brain reaches a point which crucially affects a victim. In other instances, symptoms will be obvious—loss of balance, vision problems, pain, blackout or coma.
Closed Head and Penetrating Injuries
If a trauma results within a skull fracture, this trauma will be considered a penetrating head injury. Closed head injuries, such as concussions are harder to diagnose. It could happen from an impact or blow, as in a car accident, fall, assault, or from shaking or whiplash, that includes "shaken baby syndrome." Within any case of a closed head TBI, it's important that you study the symptoms which follow the accident to diagnose a condition.
Call a Brain Damage Claims Lawyer to Discuss the Litigation Process
If a loved one has suffered a severe or mild brain injury, it's vital to see to it that you recover the maximum compensation to get the needed care. Our firm serves clients throughout Florida. We respond quickly to all inquiries. Email or call our firm to book your confidential and free consultation, to discuss your claim with one of our lawyers.
