Attorney's Getting Educated About TBI and Related Disorders
The sad fact is that most attorneys, even those holding themselves out as "personal injury" lawyers, do not have the skill or knowledge to appreciate and handle traumatic brain injury cases.
The good news is that as neuroscience and neurolaw advance, many more attorneys are getting education they need to handle these matters. This is due, in large part, to the work of the Brain Injury Association of America, North American Brain Injury Society, state and other organizations holding continuing education conferences.
I came across an interesting article that had this to say:
An increasing number of Attorneys specializing in Traumatic Brain Injury arising out of motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, closed head trauma, and blunt head trauma are becoming aware of the concurrent hormonal deficiencies that impede rehabilitation by their affect on psychological, physiological, and physical functioning (see also Heart Attack).
Many are receiving additional training in the area of Interventional Endocrinology to give them the advantage of understanding that head trauma has a two-phase insult on the body. The first: an acute phase, is associated with the gross manifestations of the injury (loss of consciousness, amnesia, cognitive impairment, fatigue, mood changes, and structural damage to the brain) and a second: the delayed phase, leading to progressive loss of one or more hormones within 3 months of the injury. Many times, the first phase is so subtle that the recognition of the second phase is significantly delayed or ignored.
The trauma can be mild, moderate, or severe and still cause the brain's ability to regulate important, life-maintaining, hormones to fail.
Read more here.
So lets keep up the good work!
