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As routinely and tragically exhibited by news reports, motorcycle accidents are unfortunately prevalent in the warmer summer months. However, motorcycle safety is an important year-round concern for operators of all motor vehicles. To help steer positive preparation for riders, using guidelines posted by the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), this post is the first in a series. Let’s start with the prop [...]

A woman is filing for medical malpractice in New York against a surgeon who mistakenly left a surgical sponge inside her brain. According to this UPI news report, 84-year-old Mary Pober’s family alleges that she is constantly at risk for serious head injuries since she lost a portion of her skull in a procedure to retrieve the forgotten sponge. The New York woman must wear a helmet forever because of the damage [...]

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Imagine this scene, in a split second you are in a car accident. Without warning, your head and neck are violently thrust about in an acceleration/deceleration type movement also known as whiplash injury. Even without a direct hit to the head, the brain is composed of several pounds of a soft like substance violently thrown about the inside of the skull. The inner surface of the skull is not smooth and contains sev [...]

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a client who struck her head in a violent car accident. At the emergency room, she was diagnosed with a mild concussion and despite the fact that she continued to exhibit symptoms a week after the accident including but not limited to vomiting, nausea, loss of memory, and anxiety, she could not get an appointment with a proper neurologist for a month. The experienced [...]

The violent forces that occur as a result of a car accident often leave innocent victims with a traumatic brain injury that will greatly affect their daily abilities to fully function after a car accident. Many times a traumatic brain injury will result in a lifetime of rehabilitative training, extensive medical bills, and loss of a job which can take the wind out of the sails of a victim and their family emotional [...]

The violent forces that occur as a result of a car accident often leave innocent victims with a traumatic brain injury that will greatly affect their daily abilities to fully function after a car accident. Many times a traumatic brain injury will result in a lifetime of rehabilitative training, extensive medical bills, and loss of a job which can take the wind out of the sails of a victim and their family emotional [...]

Since 2003, motorcycle riders 21-years of age or older could go helmetless in Pennsylvania if they had been licensed to operate a motor vehicle for more than two years or completed a Pennsylvania motorcycle safety course. Unfortunately the helmetless law resulted in many motorcycle accident related deaths and closed head injuries resulting in permanent dysfunction. According to findings head injury deaths from mo [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that an autopsy of Owen Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania football player who committed suicide in April, showed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This disease could have been caused by head trauma and may have led to his suicide. His mother believes Thomas never had a concussion. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Accor [...]