Common Car Crash Brain Injuries

Vehicle collisions are, by far, the most common cause of brain injuries. Each year, these injuries send over 1.2 million people to hospital emergency rooms. Over a million of these patients are treated and released. Initial head injury symptoms, which include disorientation and confusion, seem mild. But these injuries are degenerative. Therefore, doctors send many people home with potentially fatal brain injuries.

Brain injury diagnosis issues underscore the need to work with a Maitland personal injury lawyer. Experienced attorneys have professional connections with top-notch doctors who properly diagnose and treat hidden car crash injuries, such as brain injuries. These doctors also provide valuable evidence, in the form of official reports. So, a Maitland personal injury lawyer addresses immediate needs and is also well-positioned to obtain maximum compensation for your serious injuries.

mTBIs

Concussions, or moderate traumatic brain injuries, are very common in low-speed car accidents, such as residential street or parking lot car crashes.

By themselves, concussions normally aren’t serious. The aforementioned symptoms, which also include an intense headache, usually dissipate if the victim rests and receives proper hydration.

However, if the victim has a pre-existing condition, specifically a prior concussion, an mTBI could cause Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that’s usually fatal.

The prior concussion, or concussions, could have occurred decades ago. Brain injuries, regardless of their extent or cause, are permanent. Additionally, different people tolerate a different number of concussions. Two or three concussions might cause CTE. Then again, it might take twenty or thirty concussions to cause CTE.

If a pre-existing condition, like a prior concussion, contributes to the risk and/or severity of an injury, such as CTR, a Maitland personal injury lawyer can obtain compensation for the CTE, not simply for the mild concussion. Defendants shouldn’t reap financial windfalls because victims are vulnerable.

Compensation in a car crash or other personal injury case usually includes money for economic losses, such as medical bills, and noneconomic losses, such as pain and suffering.

PTSD

High-speed wrecks normally cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. A chemical imbalance, as opposed to a trauma impact, normally causes PTSD.

Extreme stress, like the stress of a life-threatening car crash, enlarges the amygdala (part of the brain that controls emotional responses) and shrinks the hippocampus (logical responses). The effect is like a cowboy riding a wild horse. As long as the cowboy grips the reins tightly, everything is okay. But if the cowboy relaxes his grip, the horse runs wild.

A combination of drugs and therapy controls the symptoms of PTSD, which include hypervigilance, depression, flashbacks, and anger. But these medical treatments don’t “cure” PTSD. Nothing does that. In most cases, despite drugs and therapy, PTSD symptoms are at least partially disabling.

sTBIs

Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries are also very common in high-speed car crashes. Physiology causes these injuries.

Contrary to popular myth, the brain doesn’t fit snugly inside the skull, like a hand in a glove. Instead, the skull is a water tank that suspends the brain, which is about the size of a coffee mug, in cerebrospinal fluid.

The extreme motion of a high-speed wreck causes the brain to slam against the inside of the skull. No restraint system, however advanced, can possibly absorb all the force in a high-speed wreck. Since sTBIs are permanent, at best, physical therapists can train uninjured parts of the brain to assume lost functions. Usually, however, sTBIs are debilitating or fatal.

Work With a Dedicated Orange County Lawyer

Injury victims are entitled to substantial compensation. For a confidential consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer in Maitland, contact Goldman Law, P.A. Our main office is conveniently located on Maitland Boulevard near Interstate 4.

Source:

internationalbrain.org/resources/brain-injury-facts