Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury
Brian O Sutter
Personal Injury
The body can be a rather delicate thing. Nothing makes your fragility more obvious than after you have been in an accident. Cuts and broken bones are fairly common side effects, but thankfully are often easy to recover from. However, sometimes you are not so lucky when an accident occurs. One of the worse injuries of all, is the one that effects your very own brain. Traumatic Brain Injury can happen in a variety of accidents but more are from car accidents. However, it is not uncommon for firearms or falls to also cause a traumatic brain injury. This condition can be devastating and is something that you can never completely recover from. Sadly, it can also be easily overlooked and even fatal.
What Is TBI?
Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI is a broad spectrum of symptoms and disabilities that result from a physical injury to the brain. It is an injury that is more common than we would like to admit and can drastically change a person's personality and their physical and mental abilities. In the past, the death rate from traumatic brain injuries was incredibly high. However, thanks to technological advances in medicine, TBI is treatable. It should be noted that the effects of TBI, even with modern medicine, are still quite significant.
What Are The Symptoms?
The symptoms of TBI can vary from person to person depending on the severity and area of injury. For this reason, TBI patients are often separated into two categories: mild and severe.
Those with mild forms of TBI can appear to have a perfectly healthy brain on MRI and CAT scans, but struggle with cognitive problems such as:
- • Difficultly thinking or concentrating
- • Brief moments of confusion or disorientation
- • Memory problems
- • Dizziness or loss of balance
- • Sleep disturbances
- • Recurring headaches or migraines
- • Mood swings
- • Depression
- • Sensitivity to light and sounds
- • Seizures
Due to their nature, they can easily be overlooked or seen as personal problem instead. Despite being called mild, these symptoms can have a devastating effect on the injured person and their family.
Those will more severe TBI can become even more limited in their physical or mental abilities. Their symptoms include, but aren't limited to:
- • Memory loss
- • Partial or total paralysis
- • Chronic pain
- • Loss of thinking ability
- • Abnormal speech
- • Sleep disorders
- • Inability to control emotions
- • Epileptic seizures or convulsions
- • Decreased or loss of hearing, vision, taste, or smell
Physical and mental symptoms aside, TBI can create a lot of financial trouble for you and your family. TBI comes will a large amounts of medical costs including the time spent in the hospital, brain scans, and the cost of medication. TBI also makes it challenging or impossible to continue working. This only makes the financial burdens worse since you are unable to make money. For those in severe conditions that require help with everyday tasks, it could also keep family members from being able to work in order to care for you.
What Can I Do For Financial Assistance?
If your injuries were caused by the actions or neglect of someone else, there is a strong chance you can get financial compensation for your injuries. Though it will not heal your brain injury, financial compensation can ease some of the financial costs. This can also help prevent the accident happening to someone else. After all, if it happened once it can surely happen again if that person's neglect and recklessness continues. By standing up to them, you could be saving others so that no one else has to suffer.
That's not all! If you have a traumatic brain injury, you are eligible for disability benefits to give you the support you need. Our lawyers can help you through the filing process and will argue your case if necessary. Don't hesitate to seek the help you need!
If you or someone close to you is suffering from TBI and is seeking financial compensation or disability benefits, then you should count on us! At All Injuries Law Firm, located in the southwest Florida near Charlotte and Sarasota area, we have a lot of experience in injury and disability cases. We are dedicated to helping you get the compensation or benefits you need to ease the financial burden of TBI.