Half of All Traumatic Brain and Closed Head Injuries Are Caused By Collisions Involving Cars, Motorcycles and Bicycles
The closed head injury and brain injury lawyers at the Philadelphia car accident law firm of Reiff & Bily urge you to buckle up and be a careful and safe driver due to the fact that according to a study released by the National Institute of Health, half of all traumatic brain injuries are caused by collisions involving cars, motorcycles and bicycles.
Since 1979, the Philadelphia car accident lawyers of Reiff & Bily have been working with individuals who sustained traumatic brain injury and head trauma. The symptoms can be mild, severe or sometimes only barely noticeable and detected by virtue of scientific testing. Some people who have sustained a major traumatic brain injury may experience at least one seizure during the first week after the injury. However, most of the time, the symptoms are mild and may go unnoticed, exhibiting themselves by virtue of impaired memory such as forgetfulness, change of behavior patterns, increased irritability or anxiety, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, double vision, problems thinking and reasoning, diminution of fine motor skills, trouble with processing information and problem solving, slow down of mental processing, poor judgment, inability to pay attention and inability to multi-task.
Most commonly, many of our injured clients complain of short term memory loss which means that the injured person will recall information from before the head trauma and will struggle with new information after the head trauma. Individuals who have closed head trauma have trouble with spoken and written language and others have problems organizing their thoughts and ideas.
A traumatic brain injury occurs when a blow to the head damages the brain. The damage may be caused by a penetrating head injury such as when an object enters the skull or, most likely in a car accident, by a closed head injury. When a person suffers a closed head injury, the extent of the injury depends on the force of the impact on the area of the brain that was damaged. Many times symptoms are temporary; however, in a select number of cases, symptoms may be permanent.
Traumatic brain injuries can seriously alter the lives of victims. People who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries may need to depend on family members or care givers to attend to their basic needs on a long term basis. Even people displaying less severe symptoms may discover that a slight loss of coordination or slower cognitive ability prevents them from performing their work at the same level as before the injury. Accordingly, the medical recovery and the loss of living with a traumatic brain injury can be very high.
If you or a loved one was involved in a car accident or other accident and have suffered a closed head trauma or other catastrophic injury, please contact the experienced closed head and traumatic brain injury lawyers at the Philadelphia catastrophic injury law firm of Reiff & Bily at 1-800-421-9595 or contact us online at www.reiffandbily.com to schedule a free consultation with one of our experienced closed head injury and brain trauma lawyers.
