New York City is liable for $19 million of a $36 million verdict awarded to a boy bicyclist who sustained brain damage when he was hit by a car, the New York Post reported Sunday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/jury_hits_city_for_K4dhuTynjmBPy8cWP9omZP The city’s responsbility for $19 million would be the biggest legal award paid by the..
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Cells are Like Electrical Connections: The diagram demonstrates the similarity (although of course on a much different scale) of the structure and purpose of a brain cell and that of an electrical connection. The cell body is similar to the switch. The axon is similar to the wires that connect..
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Challenges Identifying Amnesia: Otto Part Five There was some challenges identifying amnesia when it came to Otto. As important as amnesia is in assessing the potential severity of a severe brain injury, it is absolutely critical element to diagnosing a mild traumatic brain injury. There are four acute events which define the..
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Diffuse axonal injury can occur without any direct impact on the head, as it requires only the condition of rapid acceleration/deceleration such as takes place in whiplash injuries due to acceleration/deceleration resulting in rapid flexion-extension movement of the neck. However, the likelihood of significant diffuse axonal injury increases when the..
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Wife Concerns About Brain Injury: Otto Part Four In Part Four I talked to Otto’s wife. No one would pay attention to his Wife concerns about brain injury that he may had suffered. At some point while he’s in the hospital for his initial injuries does anybody figure out that he’s had..
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Ankle Fracture: Otto Part Three We pick up Otto’s story through the narrator of his wife. He is still in St. Germaine and she is in Madison, there daughter Nancy made if through the initial surgery to fix her skull, in her phone calls with him, he doesn’t seem to be..
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The neuron is made up of several different components, but the portion of it which is most exposed to injury in a shear mechanism is the axon, the long thin protrusion which can extend substantial distances across different layers of the brain. The primary role of a neuron is for..
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Motor Vehicle Wreck and TBI: Otto Part Two We know a little bit about Otto already with his motor vehicle wreck and TBI because of his contributions to Nancy’s story and the interweaving of his injuries with hers. See http://www.tbivoices.com/blog/index.php/braininjury/nancy-winter-wreck-leaves-9-year-old-girl-with-skull-fracture/ I asked him for more details about himself and the motor vehicle..
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Brain injury can be both focal or diffuse, when diffuse it takes four principal forms, although only three of these forms involve patients who have any chance of survival. Diffuse axonal brain injury; for more information, click here. Diffuse hypoxic/anoxic/ischemic injury; Diffuse swelling and Diffuse vascular injury. Diffuse axonal injury..
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Head Injury in the Family : Otto Part One While it is not a unique circumstance, imagine how much more difficult dealing with a pediatric brain injury caused by a skull fracture to your nine year old daughter would be, if one of the parents of such child, also suffers serious..
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