Brain Injury

While the human brain possesses remarkable resilience and adaptive capabilities, it is crucial to acknowledge that full healing after a traumatic brain injury is not guaranteed. Unlike some other tissues in the body, the neurons and intricate neural networks of the brain face significant challenges in regeneration. Despite advancements in medical understanding and rehabilitation techniques,…

When it comes to head injuries, they should always be taken seriously. Not just the bleeding head wound someone suffers during a car accident, but also smaller bumps to the head one might experience from banging it against a roof beam in your attic. What one may consider to be a negligible injury could actually…

Some car accidents, slip and falls, construction accidents, and other Oklahoma City accidents change lives forever. One type of life-changing injury that lasts a lifetime is paralysis. Patients with full or partial paralysis often must spend most of their life in a wheelchair or confined to their homes. In the best cases, victims can learn…

Although accidents involving large commercial trucks account for a small portion of vehicle crashes across the nation relatively speaking, they are also responsible for a significant number of serious injuries and deaths. Some of these injuries include traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). This types of severe injure to the head and brain is responsible for many…

Protective helmets and pads are essential in contact sports such as football to protect the health of players. However, helmets can only do so much when athletes hit each other, and do so repeatedly at high contact speeds. Sometimes a player may not only experience on concussion, but repeated concussions. The effect of such repeated…

The brain is one of the most complex areas of the body. Any injury it sustains can lead to a lifetime of complications, affecting the victim both cognitively and physically. Although modern medicine continues to make great strides in understanding the brain and how it works, much about brain injuries still remains a mystery. A…

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most severe injuries that can occur to an accident victim. These brain injuries often develop when a person’s head hits an object, such as the windshield or headrest in a vehicle during a car accident, or a hard surface in a slip and fall accident. Injuries…

Children and adolescents are particularly susceptible to sustaining traumatic brain injuries (TBI). In the U.S. every year, 700,000 children under the age of 19 are diagnosed with TBI. This represents a large percentage of the 1.7 million TBI patients diagnosed every year. The Official Research Journal of the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) published a…

When an injury is catastrophic in nature, its severity can leave an individual with long-term medical conditions such as permanent disability, or a reduced life expectancy. Additional consequences of these injuries can include long-term stays in the hospital, multiple surgeries, long-term treatment protocols, recurring health problems, and extensive rehabilitation. What causes a catastrophic injury? The…

A recent story, reported by CBS Chicago, showed that new research may help victims of traumatic brain injuries. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can change a victim’s life forever. Victims often need to see a range of doctors such as neurologists, psychologists, physical therapists, speech therapists, vocational therapists, and many other health care providers. Many…