Posts tagged head injury

• Hidden Dangers of Theme Park Rides

  Ed Normand | March 29, 2009 2:01 PM | 10 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  While standing in line at at theme park in anticipation of enjoying a ride you have seen advertised on Television you read a warning. It tells you not to ride if you are pregnant or had a back or...

• Subdural Hematoma - Important And Concise Information

  Bob Carroll | October 24, 2005 7:21 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Subdural hematoma is frequently the result of a traumatic head injury. A subdural hematoma is a collection of blood on the surface of the brain. It lies beneath the outer covering (the dura) of the brain and the brain’s surface. Use safety equipment and safety precautions at work and play to minimize the risk of a head injury. A subdural hematoma, frequently the result of a traumatic head...

• Serious Brain Injury Sustained By Skateboarder Who Hitched A Ride

  Bob Carroll | January 27, 2007 3:44 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  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...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Occurs When Head Hits The Windshield

  Bob Carroll | November 10, 2006 6:14 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  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...

• A Husband's Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury

  Bob Carroll | June 30, 2006 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Newsweek is featuring an article by Barbara Stahura about her husband's traumatic brain injury (TBI) and his recovery. Her story expresses the suddenness of the injury, the loss of identity and the miracle of recovery. How My Husband Came Back has a happy ending, an almost complete return of brain function. But, the darkness Ken escaped is well described. A car accident and brain injury...

• Falling Television Kills Child

  Eddie Farah | May 08, 2009 1:18 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was an incredibly sad story this week when little four-year-old Dymounique Wilson died after a television fell on her in her Jacksonville home. Wednesday night her mother, Samara Brinkley,...

• Motorcycle Passenger Hit By Falling Ladder

  Eddie Farah | March 23, 2009 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This would certainly qualify as a freak accident. A passenger on a motorcycle traveling in the Jacksonville area was hit by a ladder that fell from a pickup truck. The 59-year old woman is in the...

• Auto Accidents and Death on Lee County roads

  Joseph Bernardo | April 19, 2008 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week was a dangerous and deadly one on the roads in Lee County A bicyclist was killed in a crosswalk a man was killed in a single car crashwith a woman passenger injured and taken to the...

• The NFL And Brain Injury

  Bob Carroll | January 19, 2007 6:25 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  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 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  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...