Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness and the New England Journal of Medicine
I recently blogged about the long term effects of traumatic brain injury and the article entitled Traumatic Brain Injury - Football, Warfare, and Long-Term Effects.
In September 2010, the New England Journal of Medicine revisited traumatic brain injury awareness. Focusing on the increased awareness of traumatic brain injury in the lives of ordinary people and those close to them, The Journal mentions contact sports and combat blast injuries. The article is written by medical doctors who are pointing out how public awareness is growing. Blogger Beth Miller writes that even for "normal gals" like her, the facts of Traumatic Brain Injury are becoming real.
This is a problem when representing people with Traumatic Brain Injury. Too often they look fine. You need an established traumatic brain injury attorney on your side. Your attorney must know th signs, symptoms and consequences of traumatic brain injury.
And it should be accountable. For too long general brain injury knowledge has been underrated. Now that our son's, daughters, fathers and mothers are returning from combat and blast injuries with traumatic brain injury. Now that our athletes, young and not so young, are getting traumatic brain injury from football, boxing and other sports. We also need to understand the ramifications and costs of traumatic brain injury.
Similar to the public's slow but eventual understanding that cigarette smoking causes cancer, people need to appreciate the personal costs of traumatic brain injury. The costs to the public of treating cancer - whether in the form of higher insurance rates or tax paid subsidies to hospitals giving out medical care to those who cannot afford it - needs to resonate.
The New England Journal of Medicine does a nice job revisiting the Long term effects of traumatic brain injury to all of us "normal" people. Take a read.
The inside of the skull, the article reminds us, is made of boney ridges. When the head is violently
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moved, it sends the brain on a collision course with the inside of the skull. This, often non-impact, movement typically encountered in a car accident, blast injury or sport contact, bruises and injures the brain. However reseach concerning lesions (injury) has been a historically controversial topic.
Long Term Consequences
Many complications of traumatic brain injury are evident immediately or soon after injury. The long term effects not so much. Attorney and Blogger, Micahel Kaplan, has lately taken up the cause of repeated trauma in cases of sporting contacts. His latest blog talks about youth sport concussion law. Bruce Stern, another blogger and attorney, discusses how brain injury can effect work and occupation.
Be sure your lawyer is not simply a "car wreck" lawyer. Be sure he/she is a traumatic brain injury lawyer.
