A recent story from the Navy Times about a new concept in what is technically referred to as functional imaging. Functional imaging, such as a PET scan or fMRI, is an imaging technique which tells not whether there is a bleed or damage to a structure of the brain, but..
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I had an idea for today’s blog, which was to pick one of my favorite books, just randomly turn to a page, and write on such topic. The book I picked was Wrightson and Gronwall, Mild Head Injury, Oxford, 1999. Click here to order this book. This book is one..
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By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 One of the absolute cornerstone’s to my belief system as a brain injury advocate, is that brain damage is not an immediate occurrence but part of a complex and multi-factorial process that occurs not just over minutes, but as much as 24-72..
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I once started a lecture with this joke: the most important thing to being a brain injury lawyer, is learning how to type neuro. It sometimes feels to me, and I am sure as often to the readers of my various web pages, that there are just too many specialities..
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I first wrote the an essay on this topic in 1997, and my list has remained mostly unchanged since: https://tbilaw.com/choosing-a-brain-injury-attorney.html I still think these questions which are listed below are good questions to start with. But of course, one could argue that those questions were self serving then, as I..
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I got this email exchange this week, about something I wrote more than a decade ago: Is this a typo? http://www.waiting.com/recoveryexpect.html A so-called “mild” brain injury may result in substantial deficits which may affect a person’s life permanently, while a person who has suffered a “severe” brain injury may be..
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Is it really so unreasonable to expect someone who is working in an Emergency Room, to know a few simple things about concussion and amnesia. Here is what it says in the medical record I am reviewing now, a record from an emergency room, three days post accident: “This patient..
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“It isn’t fair, I got hurt, what do you mean you don’t want my case?” I wish I could help everyone. I feel bad when I can’t. A million concussions a year in this country, conservatively 150,000 people disabled as a result. That would make me a very busy man...
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Editor’s note: Cindy is an amazing person, whose life was terribly changed by a an accident she suffered. She was brilliant, and still is one of the most creative and interesting thinkers I know. Yet: I’ve been following this discussion regarding terminology and it has generated a lot of thoughts..
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“No objective evidence of injury.” The defense argument that there is “no objective evidence of injury” is so predictable in every brain injury case, it is a tactic I try to attack from all angles. Imaging studies are not our only objective findings in medicine. We also accept the “footprint..
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