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I serve on the executive board of the traumatic brain injury lawyer group of the American Association for Justice, and lately there has been a lot of talk and e-mails about something that seems more like science fiction than reality – a blood test to detect brain injury. An article in PopSci magazine is just …
How DTI can diagnose concussion and traumatic brain injuries, and help lawyers explain these injuries to juries when insurance company lawyers deny responsibility and attack TBI victims The topic of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) has been coming up a lot lately. DTI is an imaging scan that helps assess traumatic brain injuries and closed head …
According to MedlinePlus (the National Institutes of Health’s Web site) every year, millions of people suffer a head injury. But the danger is that so many head injuries can be difficult to recognize. Sometimes symptoms of head injuries begin to manifest immediately following a trauma. However, very often head injury symptoms don’t become recognizable until …
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TED talk by Dr. Elliot Krane says chronic pain is not just a symptom of injury, but an injury itself I often write about the connection between car accident injuries like TBI and chronic pain syndrome. Sadly, so many of these injuries fall into a legal double standard and the victim of these terrible injuries …
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Our brain injury lawyers participated in March’s Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month to help car accident victims with TBI Last month was Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Awareness Month. To get people talking about the importance of understanding this complicated injury, our brain injury lawyers have made a donation to the Brain Injury Association of Michigan. …
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How the prevalence of motor vehicle accident-related brain injury is reflected in MI auto law governing pain and suffering compensation for accident victims Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) resulting from Michigan car accidents fall into a special category under our auto laws. Unlike other personal injuries to the body and unlike any other auto accident-related injury, …
Study shows brain injury survivors, even younger ones, suffer accelerated neurodegeneration As a Michigan brain injury attorney, I have a unique challenge when helping many of my clients who have suffered “mild” traumatic brain injury in car accidents and truck accidents. It’s my job to explain to cynical insurance company adjusters and sometimes to juries …
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Doctors and brain injury lawyers agree: When TBI isn’t recognized and treated, we all pay We’re in our last week of Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. But just because it’s the end of March, doesn’t mean our brain injury lawyers are going to stop talking about this important subject. Today I’d like to discuss how …
Study identifies TBI as a risk factor for stroke Almost 20 years ago, I saw my first case where someone was hurt in a car accident, and then shortly, a few days later, suffered a stroke. The adjuster for the insurance company was quick to point out that this stroke was a superceding, intervening event …
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