Children who suffer a traumatic brain injury due to a car accident or other causes need a lot of help to lead a normal life. Part of the normalcy plan should include having the child return to school. Research from the Model Systems Knowledge Transfer Center reviews many of the problems of possible solutions. The [...]
Over the years, we have helped a lot of families who were living with traumatic brain injury. There are a lot of excellent resources out there – Rocky McElhaney Law Firm being one of them – to help people get through the day-to-day challenges that affect victims of TBI. We wanted to share that list [...]
New Channel 6 runs a program called The Means Report, where their anchor Brad Means covers more in-depth stories. A recent episode of The Means Report featured Dr. John Vender, the Vice Chair of the department of neurosurgery at Medical College of Georgia (MCG), and Dr. Krishnan Dhandapani (“Dr. Kris”), a neuroscientist at MCG. The [...]
Traumatic brain injuries can be mild, moderate, or severe. A mild TBI can heal within weeks or months. A severe TBI can cause death or create a lifetime of physical and emotional pain. Many moderate and severe TBI victims lose the ability to work and to enjoy life’s activities. Some victims require years or a [...]
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) usually happens due to the negligence of a car or truck driver, the failure of a property owner to keep the premises safe, an assault, or for other reasons. Traumatic brain injuries are classified as mild, moderate, or severe – depending on how long and severe the symptoms are and [...]
The Washington Post reported, on January 24, 2018, reported that new technology may give physicians more time to treat strokes. Physicians used to believe they had only six hours to act to treat brain tissue damage caused by blockages of major vessels to the brain. New research indicates doctors may have up to 16 hours [...]
A major problem in diagnosing and treating concussions is that the clinical guidelines focus on adults even though nearly three million of the people who have concussions in the US are children. The American Academy of Pediatrics, wrote in 2017, that a simple saliva test may now help doctors and parents understand more about childhood concussions [...]
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant contributor to deaths and permanent disability for thousands of Americans. In Tennessee about 8,000 people are hospitalized each year for traumatic brain injury, and the Tennessee state government, public and private health care organizations have a wide variety of resources to help improve the lives of those suffering [...]
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have an adverse impact on all aspects of a person's life. A TBI can have cognitive, behavioral, emotional and physical effects that affect how a person interacts with others, it can affect how they do their work and whether they will be able to continue to do the same [...]
The symptoms of a brain injury are not always apparent immediately following a car crash. Sometimes they show up right away and sometimes the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be delayed for days week or months following the crash. In the moments and days following a car crash or any other accident [...]
