Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Helps Victims of Traumatic Brain Injuries and Families of Those Suffering Traumatic Brain Injuries Seek Compensation From Parties Who Caused Traumatic Brain Injuries By Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
The human body is remarkable and can sometimes withstand great trauma and at other times suffers serious injury from an awkward fall, car wreck, assault, or trauma. Some of the worst injuries a person can suffer are to the nervous system including traumatic brain injuries. Injuries to the brain can cause comas, paralysis, limited capacity, brain swelling, extreme pain, numbness, and loss of control of bodily functions. If you or a loved one have suffered a traumatic brain injury or head injury the most important thing you can do is to find a good medical doctor to assess the injury so you know what you are dealing with and how to best treat the injury. The second step is determine how to pay for the necessary medical treatment.
As a Texas traumatic brain injury lawyer, Jason S. Coomer helps families seek compensation for traumatic brain injuries. If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and are seeking compensation, please feel free to send an inquiry to Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer, Jason Coomer, for a free review of your potential claim or send an e-mail to Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer, Jason Coomer.
Severe Brain Injuries Including Traumatic Brain Injuries Can Be Caused By A Variety of Traumas Many of Which Can Be The Basis of a Traumatic Brain Injury Lawsuit
Serious brain injuries can occur through traumatic impact to the head caused by an automobile accident, serious fall, falling object, construction accident, accidental gun shot, boating accident, or a vicious attack. Severe trauma to the head can cause the brain to move inside the skull and injure the brain. The skull typically protects the brain from injury, but because the inside of the skull is rough a traumatic event that causes the brain to move or to swell inside the skull can cause the brain to press up against the skull and cause serious brain damage. Severe brain damage can also be caused by a lack of oxygen getting to the brain, a hemorrhage inside the brain, or damage to the skull.
A subarachnoid hemorrhage can be caused by trauma and is often described as the worst headache you can have. A subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding between the middle membrane covering of the brain and the brain itself. Specifically it occurs within the cerebrospinal fluid-filled spaces surrounding the brain (also known as the subarachnoid space).
Subdural hematomas are usually the result of a serious head injury. When they occur from head trauma, it is called an "acute" subdural hematoma. Acute subdural hematomas are among the deadliest of all head injuries. The bleeding fills the brain area very rapidly, leaving little room for the brain, and are associated with brain injury.
Subdural hematomas can occur after a very minor head injury, especially in the elderly. The subdural hematomas go unnoticed for many days or many weeks, and are called "chronic" subdural hematomas. During a subdural hematoma, tiny veins between the surface of the brain and its outer covering (the dura) stretch and tear, allowing blood to collect. In the elderly, the veins are often already stretched because of brain atrophy (shrinkage).
Types of Traumatic Brain Injuries
There are several types of brain injuries. Two common types of head injuries are Concussion, the most common type of traumatic brain injury and a Contusion, which is a bruise on the brain. Concussions are fairly common and can occur with any blow to the head, whether or not unconsciousness occurs. If someone has received a blow to the head, they should be watched closely for signs of possible brain damage. Things to watch for include repeated vomiting, unequal pupils, confused mental state or varying levels of consciousness, seizure-like activity, weakness on one side of the body or the inability to wake up (coma). If any of these signs are present, immediately call your health care provider.
More severe brain injuries can result in unconsciousness, vegetative states, limited capacity, or a coma that last for days, weeks, months, years, or are permanent. More severe brain injuries can result in brain death and death.
A coma is a state in which the person seems to be asleep but cannot be woken up and does not respond to stimuli or offer any reaction. A person can remain in a coma for days, weeks, months, even years, and in some cases never come out of the coma.
A Vegetative state is where the person is unable to react with the environment although he or she can still feel and recognize stimuli. The body of someone in this state will still react to sensations by way of perspiration, heart rate, etc. but the patient my not react outwardly. If this condition lasts for more than one month, it is known as a persistent vegetative state.
A limited capacity state is where a person that has suffered a traumatic brain injury is no longer in a vegetative state or coma. However, as the name suggests, responses from the person does not have the brain or neurological capacity that they had prior to the brain injury. Reasoning, movement, and other basic functions or emotions are no longer available. It can take years of therapy and medical treatment to recover all or part of the person's abilities.
Locked in syndrome is a condition where the person is unable to move any part of their body except for the eyes. The person’s consciousness and emotions remain intact but the person is unable to make any physical movement other than eye movements and blinking. This is a rare neurological condition.
Brain death occurs when the brain stops functioning altogether.
Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Jason Coomer Works With Other Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyers Throughout Texas and the United State on Catastrophic Traumatic Brain Injury Lawsuits
Traumatic brain injury lawyer, Jason Coomer handles a variety of Texas personal injury claims including automobile accident claims (car wrecks, truck collisions, bus collisions, run over bicyclists, and motorcycle accidents); serious falls; falling objects, electrocutions; fires; smoke inhalation; toxic exposure; industrial accidents; misuse of equipment; falling objects; explosions; and shattered glass.
Please feel free to contact The Law Offices of Jason S. Coomer for additional information on serious head trauma claims and brain injury claims. Don't think that if you have suffered a serious head trauma or a person you love has suffered a severe brain injury that a responsible party either big business or insurance company is going to voluntarily tell you about all the insurance coverage they have or pay you money for all the damages you have suffered. In fact many businesses and insurance companies will hire adjusters and defense lawyers to limit any money that they have to pay. The last thing a person wants or needs to be doing after a catastrophic head injury is to battle big insurance and their litigation team to make them take care of the damages that they have caused. It helps having an experienced personal injury lawyer help you calculate damages including past medical bills, future medical expenses, pharmacy bills, therapy bills, lost wages, future lost wages, lost earning capacity, damage to career or business, pain & suffering, mental anguish, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other damages that you have suffered.
For a free evaluation of your personal injury claims, contact The Law Offices of Jason S. Coomer. Please include your name, the date of the accident, location of accident, the type of injuries suffered, and a brief description on how the injuries were suffered.
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