Posts tagged spinal cord injury

• Mild Head Injuries Tied to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Michael Phelan | February 02, 2008 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine represents the military's first large-scale effort to gauge the effect of mild head injuries -concussions (many from roadside blasts)- that some experts worry may cause a host of undiagnosed neurological problems. My last blog reported on a study concluding that undiagnosed head trauma is the cause of a host of later cognitive and...

• Improper Supervision and Set Up of Bounce Houses Result in Serious Injuries

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | June 09, 2011 7:01 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Spinal Cord Injuries
  

  Bounce houses in Virginia look like fun when they are shaped like castles and ships, but accidents involving the inflatables have resulted in serious injuries and death all over the United...

• Fake Bad Scale: Weapon of Defense Neuropsychologists

  Michael Phelan | March 05, 2008 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  The Fake Bad Scale (FBS) is a bogus test created by Paul Lees-Haley to wrongly label personal injury claimants as "fakers." The FBS is junk science and should not be allowed in a court of law. Indeed, it violates the province of the jury by attempting to divine the credibility of witnesses. No test can act as a lie detector, which is how forensic defense neuropsychologists are trying to use...

• Half price DC Social Security Disability Lawyer ?

  Doug Landau | March 19, 2012 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Spinal Cord Injuries
  

  How much ? How Hard ? How Long ? Those are the three best questions clients and their family members ask Herndon Reston area disability lawyer Doug Landau. For the first question, there is good...

• US Lacrosse Confronts Concussion Epidemic

  Michael Phelan | November 07, 2007 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Two days after his team won the National Lacrosse League championship, Jay Jalbert was laying in a hospital bed recovering from his seventh concussion. Jay was forced to retire from professional Lacrosse. Four weeks after taking a routine shot off his face mask, Denver Outlaws goalie Trevor Tierney was still experiencing symptoms of his seventh concussion. Concussions are prevalent in contact...

• Brain Injury Causes Later-Life Depression

  Michael Phelan | May 31, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A study by the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of Retired Athletes of over 2,500 retired NFL players found that the rate of clinical depression among the population of retired players is strongly correlated with the number of concussions they sustained during their careers. This study corroborates other findings regarding brain injury and later-life depression in other...

• Fatal robe fire kills elderly woman; flammable fabrics

  Doug Landau | November 07, 2009 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Having experienced firsthand what happens when an elderly parent's robe ignites and catches fire, I came across notification of a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the estate of an 80-year-old...

• Lawsuit against Parent hosts of Teenage Sleepover allowed for girls death with reckless teen driver, Virginia Supreme Court reverses "No boys with cars" case

  Doug Landau | July 19, 2009 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  As the parent of teenagers, when they have guests sleepover, I will no longer get any sleep. The Virginia Supreme Court has just ruled that even when kids leave our home, we may be held...

• Old Head Injuries Linked to Behavioral & Cognitive Problems

  Michael Phelan | February 02, 2008 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Researchers studying brain injury believe that people with unrelated social or cognitive problems may have something in common: a long-forgotten blow to the head. It is widely accepted that severe head injuries can lead to cognitive and behavioral problems. What is new, according to brain researchers Wayne A. Gordan, M.D. and Mary Hibbard, Ph.D., is the contention that there are many other...

• Intelligent Vehicle Technology to Soon Warn VA Drivers of Impending Accidents

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | July 09, 2011 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Automakers are developing intelligent vehicle technology to warn drivers of impending accidents before they occur, according to the Virginian-Pilot. In July 2001, companies gathered at a National...