Head & Brain Injuries

• Serious Brain Injury Sustained By Skateboarder Who Hitched A Ride

  Bob Carroll | January 27, 2007 3:44 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Just about every week I learn of new ways for people to be seriously injured. Not too long ago it was tube kiting that burst on the scene. (Sitting on large inner-tube shaped "kites" towed behind motorboats at high enough speeds to become airborne.) This week it is skitching. (Hitching a ride by grabbing a car while on a skateboard.) The details of a skitcher who sustained a brain injury in...

• The NFL And Brain Injury

  Bob Carroll | January 19, 2007 6:25 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The NFL probably would rather not talk about brain damage suffered by its players as we approach the Super Bowl. However, there was this little matter of the player who ended up with the characteristics as those of early-stage Alzheimer's victims. Excerpts from the New York Times article:Expert Ties Ex-Player's Suicide to Brain Damage Since the former National Football League player Andre...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Requires Maximum Rehabilitation Effort

  Bob Carroll | January 15, 2007 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI) requires a major rehabilitation effort. Often, a significant part of legal representation of the injured person is devoted to assuring maximum care is obtained. One example of the need for an advocate of proper rehabilitation is provided by a recent study which shows that some particular groups of brain injured persons can sometimes experience a...

• Patients Pay for Tort Reform

  John Hopkins | January 01, 2007 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Florida doctors have been successful in passing sweeping tort reform measures twice in this state. Each time they made claims that verdicts handed down by "uninformed" jurors were outrageously high and they were having trouble paying high premiums for malpractice insurance. They threatened the citizens of Florida that they were all going to leave the state and they would leave us with no one to...

• Robots to the Rescue

  John Hopkins | November 26, 2006 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Victims of stroke and autistic children are being helped by a robot and a video game. A robot guides the limbs of stroke patients repeatedly through a video game. The constant manipulation helps to rehabilitate damaged limbs of stroke patients. The robot takes over the movement of the joystick if the patient is not capable of moving it appropriately. Autistic children are also being assisted...

• We Can All Sleep Better...Malpractice Insurers Reaping Profits

  John Hopkins | November 10, 2006 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Injured victims of medical negligence continue to suffer the inability to find lawyers who have the expertise and financial strength to handle medical negligence cases. The passage of "tort reform" in Florida has created a situation in which injured victims can no longer recover fair compensation for their "human damages". Human damages are those that the insurance lobby feel juries have gotten...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Occurs When Head Hits The Windshield

  Bob Carroll | November 10, 2006 6:14 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  When the head hits the windshield brain injury may occur almost simultaneously with the impact. That is the sobering news in a report just released.Research shows brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshieldResearch by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within...

• Study May Explain Why Seizures And Memory Defects Often Follow TBI

  Bob Carroll | October 21, 2006 2:26 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  More of the mysteries of traumatic brain injuries are being uncovered by research with every new study. The reason behind the seizures and memory defects often associated with traumatic brain injuries may lie in a reduction in the level of a protein which regulates brain activity. How Brain Injury Leads To Seizures, Memory ProblemsIn a finding that may provide a scientific basis for eventual...

• New Use For Progesterone - Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

  Bob Carroll | October 02, 2006 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Doctors have found an unexpected ally in efforts to save people who suffer serious head trauma -- the hormone progesterone. This good news is reported in USA Today. Progesterone found to help brain traumaIn a study released today, doctors in a small study at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta report giving progesterone, a steroid often associated with pregnancy and sex drives, to patients with...

• Caps on Damages Sound Good Until Tragedy Strikes Near You

  John Hopkins | September 22, 2006 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  I recently read an article relating to a news cast on Fox 28, in Indiana and it raised those sensitive hackles on the back of my neck. The article was about Ashley Faloon and an auto accident that landed her in the hospital. She was recovering well from what were relatively minor injuries; when a nurse injected her IV line with insulin. Certainly, the nurses action was accidental; she certainly...