According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, car accidents are responsible for 25% of traumatic brain injuries in North America. When your child becomes part of that statistic, it can be overwhelming, but with the right approach, you can provide...
Brain Injury
Treatment of severe brain injuries
When you or a loved one sustains serious head trauma, immediate and comprehensive medical attention is vital to improve the chance of recovery. Severe brain injuries can have profound effects on a person's life, both physically and mentally. Accordingly, being aware...
How do brain injuries affect childhood development?
No matter what someone’s age, a brain injury has the capacity to be a lifelong impairment that will change everything about the victim’s future – but this is particularly true for children. While it was once believed that the “plasticity” of a young brain could allow...
Recognizing signs of a brain injury after a car accident
After a car accident, there is often chaos and confusion. Amid the wreckage and the adrenaline rush, one might fail to notice injuries, especially those as subtle as a brain injury. Despite their initial invisibility, brain injuries are a serious consequence of car...
3 ways traumatic brain injuries can impact someone’s income
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a car crash can be very expensive to treat. Just the imaging tests required to prove that someone has a brain injury can cost thousands of dollars, and any surgery or treatments recommended will likely cost far more than that....
How a simple sniff test can help brain injury victims
The line between a coma patient who is in a persistent vegetative state and one who is in a minimally conscious state is hard to define, and the distinction often stumps a patient’s doctors. In fact, experts estimate that even the best diagnostic tests and imaging...
How brain injuries cause personality changes
Brain injuries are still under a lot of study to this day. However, as people come to learn more about them, they can better understand why certain changes occur in brain injury victims. For example, people suffering from traumatic brain injury in certain areas often...
Traumatic brain injuries in children can devastate entire families
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) could be the result of playing a contact sport like football or rugby. People could also get hurt at work, especially if their job takes them to significant elevations, as is the case for professional window washers and construction...
Two important questions when a child is injured
Healing from an injury can be a long and difficult process. Nothing is more heartbreaking when the injury involves a child. Whether the result of a car crash, dysfunctional toy, accident at a daycare, or other issue an injury to a child requires careful care....
The long-term effects of traumatic brain injuries
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, with a broad spectrum of physical and psychological symptoms, partly due to how they evolve over time. Some TBI symptoms aren’t immediately apparent, appearing days and even weeks after...