Randall Benson, M.D. on Neuroimaging Advances – SWI As I have stated here and elsewhere, diagnosing accidental concussions involves reconstructed evidence and the reliance on history from someone who likely has memory problems as to what happened, because they were concussed. In contrast to football or boxing concussions, real world..
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I began my treatment of the Congressional hearings on the long term brain damage of concussion in the NFL yesterday at my Brain Injury Lawyer Blog – http://www.waiting.com/blog/2010/01/nfl-concussion-hearings-in-congress.html I will continue that discussion on this blog for the next several blogs, as I tackled an even more important topic at..
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As angry as I get at the still stupid treatment of concussions, such as by Mike Leach at Texas Tech, I am so encouraged at the huge growth in public awareness of concussion. Almost every day there is a new story on concussion and some of those are really well..
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I have been talking on this blog the past week about the potential for brain injuries in the American Flight 311 crash in Jamaica. In continuing to follow the news of that crash, I found this story from CBS News about how planes are now safer than they once were...
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On previous blogs, I have talked about how the survivor of an on the ground air crash is exposed to significant concussional forces. The reason is that the extreme speed of a jet as it lands can create siginificant acceleration/deceleration forces. Unlike a modern car, it does not have a..
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From a Press Release from Air Jamaica Pilots Association: Organization says that lack of and/or unserviceable airport equipment combined with inclement weather could have seriously compromised the crew of American Airlines Flight 331, which crash landed in Jamaica last Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 MIAMI, FL, December 29, 2009 — A..
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It has been four days now and the news cycle has spun away from the American Flight 311 crash just short of the Caribbean Sea in Jamaica. Even Google can’t seem to find anything current. One might thus assume that no one was seriously hurt and it was a Christmas..
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People have two completely different images of air crashes. The most common is the complete catastrophe, fiery wreck, everyone dies. The other is Captain Sully’s, the miracle landing, heroic acts and everyone lives. There are air crashes in between. Years ago, we worked with the Nolan Law Group on one..
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I was once a news reporter and I understand the process of gathering news, but it is amusing in retrospect what the first reports of a major event look like. Take for example this story in the New York Times about the American Airlines Flight 311 crash in Jamaica on..
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Ten Feet. That is all that stood between a broken up airplane and the Caribbean Sea. 154 people on board that American Airlines Boeing 737 came that close to one more risk of life as the plane stopped just short of the ultimate mess. Yet looking at the photos of..
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