Know When to See a Doctor About Possible Concussion Symptoms
Concussions can develop after any impact to the head, whenever the head snaps back and forth suddenly, and when a person’s body stops suddenly, as when falling to the ground.
Concussions can develop after any impact to the head, whenever the head snaps back and forth suddenly, and when a person’s body stops suddenly, as when falling to the ground.
This page features results of cases our Virginia Beach brain injury law firm has obtained for clients over the years.
CDC experts note that TBI victims and their families suffer from lifelong effects like “impairments related to thinking or memory, movement, sensation (e.g., vision or hearing), or emotional functioning (e.g., personality changes, depression).”
This article by Portsmouth, VA bike injury lawyers features some of the most important bicycle laws in Portsmouth and throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Our VA personal injury lawyers have extensive experience in handling brain injury/closed head injury personal injury/wrongful death cases, having handled and tried to verdict several substantial brain injury cases including a record personal injury case in Northern Virginia that resulted in a $46 million verdict in 2000. Brain injury/closed head injury is a difficult medical diagnosis, sometimes even for a doctor who specializes in brain injury. For this reason, a protocol of various tests is normally appropriate: CT scans of the brain, MRI of the brain, and neuro–psychological tests are done to evaluate whether a closed head injury may actually be a traumatic brain injury with permanent consequences, although a positive MRI or CT scan is not necessary to a diagnosis of brain/closed head injury.