A brain injury, including a traumatic brain injury, typically occurs when a substantial amount of force impacts an individual’s head. In some instances, these injuries occur when an individual is involved in a bicycle accident, motor vehicle accident, pedestrian accident, motorcycle accident, or slip and fall accident.
While head and brain injuries can be relatively mild in some instances, such as in the case of a mild concussion, in other cases, the accident victim may wind up in a coma and may be dependent upon others for care throughout the remainder of their life.
Another common characteristic of brain injuries is that in many instances, they are challenging to diagnose. Symptoms may not become readily apparent until several days or weeks after an individual is involved in an accident.
One of the essential things that accident victims should do after a serious accident is to seek medical treatment at a hospital emergency room or urgent care facility. The healthcare providers there will ensure that the proper diagnostic tests, including imaging studies of the skull, are done to assess whether or not a traumatic head or brain injury as taken place.
If you or a person you care about sustained an injury in an accident that may have resulted in a traumatic brain injury, the knowledgeable Lawrenceville brain injury attorneys at Brauns Law Accident Injury Lawyers, PC can assist you with filing a claim or pursuing a lawsuit against the individual or entity who was at fault for the accident.
