Brain Damage: The "Invisible Injury"
Often persons who have sustained a traumatic brain injury and develop the post concussion syndrome do not obtain adequate compensation for their brain injuries because their lawyers do not understand this serious condition.
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Here are some simple facts that every brain injury attorney must know:
Did you know that a person can have a serious, permanent and disabling traumatic brain injury, even though:
- The person is not knocked out at the scene of the accident.
- The person may be walking, talking and even exchanging his driver's license at the scene of the accident
- The person did not sustain any cuts, broken bones or major injuries in the accident.
- The person may have a negative MRI, CT scan or EEG.
- The defense doctor, or the insurance company, will find that the person is neurologically sound despite future findings of brain damage.
- There was not a "big car crash" and that even a low speed or low impact car crash can exert sufficient force on the brain to cause a traumatic brain injury and resulting brain damage.
- That the delay in diagnosing the brain damage is not the patient's fault, but may be because of lack of education on this subject by the medical community.
- The injured person gave different versions of what happened in the car accident. This is sometimes to be expected, because a person with a traumatic brain injury is a very poor historian when it comes to recalling the facts.
- The patient only related two or three problems following the car crash and family members and close friends relate twenty or thirty problems including personality changes.
- The person was able to continue working, but if he/she is given a new responsibility, promoted, transferred to another job or obtains new employment, he/she may have tremendous difficulty and end up getting fired.
- The term "post concussion syndrome" may mean traumatic brain injury.
- Attention or concentration problems following an accident may mean that the person suffered traumatic brain injury or brain damage.
- Changes in personality or behavior following an accident, may also mean that the person suffered a traumatic brain injury
- New brain damage symptoms may appear days, weeks or months following an accident.
- The person has a perfect neurological exam, since this exam does not reveal the neuropsychological deficits associated with traumatic brain injury.
- The diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, closed head brain injury, or brain damage is based on the entire battery of tests and the entire examination and not the patient's answer to one question or a series of questions.
We are New York brain injury lawyers thatf concentrate our practice on representing victims of brain trauma. While many lawyers and law firms do not appreciate the life long consequences of a mild traumatic brain injury, brain injury lawyer Michael Kaplen and his partner, brain injury lawyer, Shana De Caro do and are prepared to assist you with your brain injury case.
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Brain Injury-A Guide To Your Legal Rights which we would be pleased to send to you if you
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