Practice Area - Traumatic Brain Injury & Nerve Damage

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) results from rapid acceleration and deceleration of the brain, including shearing (tearing) of nerve fibers, contusion (bruising) of the brain tissue against the skull, brain stem injuries, and edema (swelling). If traumatic brain injury results from an accident you may need the assistance of a traumatic brain injury lawyer.

If you or family member has suffered a traumatic brain injury or nerve damage, the Davis Law Group, P.S. can help you. Having experience with this type of claim, we have the skill and expertise necessary to represent you.

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Facts & Figures - Traumatic Brain Injury & Nerve Damage

► Each year, at least 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting in more than 4,000 individuals sustaining a TBI on a daily basis. One million people are treated and released annually from hospital emergency rooms after sustaining a brain injury. Brain injury claims more than 50,000 lives and leaves more than 80,000 individuals with lifelong disabilities each year. (Brain Injury Association of America)

► An Estimated 5.3 Million Americans - a little more than 2 percent of the U.S.population - currently live with disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injury. (Brain Injury Association of America)

► On an annual basis in the United States nearly 11,000 people sustain a traumatic spinal cord injury. More than 190,000 people in the U.S. live with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. 85 percent of all spinal cord injury patients who survive 24 hours after their injury are still living ten years after the incident. (Brain Injury Association of America)

 

News - Traumatic Brain Injury 
► Doctors Awaken Man 6 Years After Severe Brain Injury, Forbes, NY, August 1, 2007
► New life for brain injury patient, Detroit Free Press, August, 1, 2007
► Electric current boosts injured brain, Science Daily, August 1, 2007
► Silent Sufferers and Walking Wounded--the Brain Injured, Huffington Post, NY, August 1, 2007
► Brain injury survivors face tough time with acceptance, The Record-Courier, NV, August 1, 2007
► Pacemaker For The Brain Shows Promise, CBS News, NY, August 1, 2007
► Implants give brain-injured man new life, Arizona Daily Star, AZ, August 1, 2007
► Study: Most sports-related brain injuries occur in youth, Battle Creek Enquirer, MI, July 29, 2007

Traumatic Brain Injury Resources
Brain injury research is being conducted at the National Institutes of Health. Go to www.nih.gov for specific studies being funded.

The National Brain Injury Association has developed special interests groups to evaluate brain injury research, standards of care, and outcomes.

The Brain Trauma Foundation works nationally with EMS, physicians, trauma centers and hospitals to create standardized care for traumatic brain injury survivors. The guidelines for prehospital assessment, management of TBI in hospitals and trauma centers, surgical treatment of TBI and medical management of pediatric TBI are all located on this website, as well as news releases about current research.

This website is for the Brain Aneurysm Foundation , developed from a Boston-basedl need for information and support for brain aneurysm patients, their advocates and family, and the medical community. This site includes information about aneurysms and sections on support and recovery, strategies for memory loss, survivor stories, a message board as well as information on physical and emotional challenges, depression, possible deficits, treatment options and risks.

The Brain Injury Association of America strives to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education, and advocacy. Their website is one of the more detailed and comprehensive sites for information and support for brain injury survivors and their advocates. It includes a detailed explanation of brain injury, treatment and rehabilitation, fact sheets, guides for professionals and survivors, legal aspects and prevention.

Brain Injury Chat is a peer support web site, run by volunteers, where people who are affected by brain injuries can chat with other people in similar situations.

Similiar to the Neurology Channel above, the TBI Channel is specific to TBI.

The TBI Guide is run by Dr. Glen Johnson, Clinical Neurologist and director of the Neuro Recovery Head Injury Program. You can download his book, The Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide , written to prepare the survivor and his family for the road to recovery in clear, easy to understand language. It covers many topics including memory, headaches, organization, sleep, anger, dealing with doctors and different types of professionals that may be involved in treatment.

TBI Help is run by the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York. It is a helpdesk for caregivers and survivors of brain injury and provides information on treatment, prevention and coping.

TBI Home has multiple message boards where survivors and caregivers can post messages and questions, TBI chat rooms, member pages and a section on brain injury information.

The Center on Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI) describes several different outcome measurements for brain injuries, which are commonly used in the treatment of brain injury. Primarily for professionals, it includes a survey to help determine which scales are the most effective.

The Traumatic Brain Injury National Data Center (TBINDC) features searchable current research publications about many aspects of brain injury.