Florida updates in category: Head & Brain Injuries

wo teenagers riding on a personal watercraft Saturday collided with a small boat in the Jacksonville area waters. The 19-year-old man was killed and an 18-year-old woman seriously injured. No one in...

Traumatic Brain Injury, now frequently referred to as Post Concussive Syndrome can be a devastating injury yetcan be overlooked by health care providers and family members alike. After the initial traumatic event to the head and brain has been dealt with by health care providers, family members provide the after care. They are untrainedin recognizing or responding to the symptoms presented by...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Michael Kaplan in New York has been doing a great job of keeping up with news and developments on the alarming number of soldiers who are returning from Iraq with brain injuries. Ever since the USA Today brought the country's attention to the problem, soldiers and veterans have been battling the Senate Committee considering federal funding for a brain injury research center.

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) continue to be among the most devastating injuries for victims and their families. Children frequently sustain life-changing head injuries. And, the medical and rehabilitation costs are soaring.Traumatic brain injuries suffered by children place a significant burden on U.S. health resources, costing more than $1 billion in hospital charges each year, a new study...

Thanks to 300 Dollar Wonder for alerting us to a story in USA Today.GOP Kicks Soldiers When They're Down Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war.House and Senate versions of the 2007 Defense appropriation bill contain $7 million for the Defense...