TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury Information

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From Concussion to Coma, Your Starting Point for Brain and Head Injury Information in the Web

This source for Traumatic Brain Injury Facts and Diagnosis provides information about TBI for survivors and caregivers of those with Traumatic Brain Injury.

The Traumatic Brain Injury Information page includes articles, essays, information and diagrams about traumatic brain injury.

Our View of Advocacy: We of the Brain Injury Law Group make our living as advocates. But advocacy implies more than being a lawyer. It means dedicating oneself to the community we serve - the survivor, the family member of the survivor, the medical professional. To that end, we have created these pages to provide information, resources and links to help you learn and solve the problems you face.

Who We Represent: The actual practice of the Brain Injury Law Group is representing individuals who were injured as a result of the wrongful conduct or negligence of someone else.

Of the many thousands of questions we have heard in our years of brain injury advocacy, three themes keep repeating themselves:

• Traumatic Brain Injury Coma information;
• Information about Concussion, what we have been calling Subtle© Brain injuries on these pages for more than a decade, that condition more formally known as "mild brain injury"; and
• Brain Injury Symptomatology, the symptoms of the Post Concussion Syndrome.

Traumatic Brain Injury "Coma Waiting Page": Since the beginning of our web advocacy we have focused on what we can do to help the family of someone in a brain injury coma, while they are waiting for progress. That continues to be the theme of this page, and its companion page: waiting.com.

Concussion: Our starting point of what we now simply call "subtle brain injury" (what is medically referred to as the post concussion syndrome) is correcting the ignorance about Traumatic Brain Injury. A Traumatic Brain Injury can occur even though there was no documented loss of consciousness, no blow to the head, and even though all imaging studies have been normal. We focus on efforts on explaining the science of Traumatic Brain Injury at subtlebraininjury.com. To continue on with our treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury click here.

Symptomatology: The third major area of focus is a much more detailed treatment of the symptomatology of brain injury. The classic approach is that those with coma injuries have very specific focal deficits, and the "a" and "dys" words of the brain injury glossary are often used to describe these deficits. And most of what is being done in brain injury rehabilitation relates to treatment for the "a" and "dys" conditions. Yet, from the beginning of our brain injury advocacy, we have been struck by the paradox of the numerous miracles in coma cases, and the countless tragedies in the non-coma cases. As time passes, what begins as drastically different medical emergencies, pose remarkably similar challenges to the survivor and the survivor's family and friends. After the "a" and "dys" conditions have been identified and treated, the diffuse and subtle problems relating to fatigue, memory, multi-attending and depression remain. So while we have expanded our treatment of the focal deficits, our most important challenge is to broaden the understanding of the subtle effects of brain injury. Click here.

Disabling concussions are more symptomatic at 24 hours, than at the 2-4 hour after injury. Traumatic Brain Injury symptoms escalate for 24 - 72 hours. It is critical that anyone with a Traumatic Brain Injury get medical treatment on the symptomatic the day after the injury.

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This site is brought to you by the advocates of the Brain Injury Law Group, a community of plaintiff's trial lawyers across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with traumatic brain injuries and a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of TBI.