SEVERE TRAUMA INDUCED
BRAIN INJURY

When the brain is injured, the essence of the person is affected.  Memory, reason, temperament and personality may all be impaired in strange and inconsistent ways.  Traits that were minor idiosyncracies before may expand into debilitating obstacles.

The effect may be devastating to the  victim's relationships, occupation, income, school performance, and overall quality of life.  However, he may look just fine physically, and may seem normal in casual encounters. To make matters worse, friends, family members, coworkers and employers may not understand or sympathize with an injury they cannot see.

 When a person suffers multiple severe physical injuries, the focus is often on the visible injuries, the cuts and broken bones.  Closed head injury to the brain is thus one of the most overlooked and sinister outcomes of traumatic injuries.  Broken bones can heal, but the unseen injury of a bruised brain may never fully recover.

Each state has different statutes and the law of the state in which the injury occurred or the injury which led to the death occurred is controlling. You should check with an attorney to immediately determine your rights and obligations if such tragedy has befallen your family.

In Ohio, if an injury , is caused by the negligence of others, the law allows the victim to recover monetary damages. Injury lawsuits must generally be filed within specific time limits prescribed by statue.

While money damages cannot place you in the same position you were in before the injury, compensation is the only method by which the law can provide for the financial future of the family.

Here are some resources that head injury victims and their families may find of interest:

Medical Info

• "The Waiting Room" - while a loved one is in a coma
• Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide
• Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard)
• Brain Functions Map
• Neuroscience Center
• Anatomy of Head Injury
• Traumatic Brain Injury & Epilepsy
• Brain Injury Glossary
• Consensus Statement: Rehabilitation of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury (NIH)
• Acquired Brain Injury Literature Resource Guide (MIT)
• Acquired Brain Injury & Hidden Visual Problems

Rehab Info

• Shepherd Center, Atlanta - Acquired Brain Injury Program
• Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems
• Neuropsychology Central
• Neuropsychology Home Page
• Facts About Concussion & Brain Injury
• TBI Survival Guide
• HeadInjury.com
• Head Injury Checklist
• Brain Injury: Proving Lifetime Disablity
• Health-Helper.com
• Community Integration of Individuals with TBI
• Working Effectively With Employees Who Have Sustained a Brain Injury

Organizations

• Brain Injury Association (US)
• Brain Injury Assn of Georgia
• Brain Injury Society
• National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury
• Head Injury Awareness Foundation
• Head Injury Awareness Foundation
• Brain Injury Information Network
  
  
  Caregiver Info
  • Brain Injury Connection
  • National Family Caregivers Assn.Brain Injury: Guide for Families & Friends
  • Head Injury & the Family
  Children
  • Children with Brain Injury
  • Children with Head Injury
  • How Parent of TBI Child Can Work With School
  Technology
  • Parrott Software - for people with language and memory impairments
  Injury Prevention
  • National Center for Injury Prevention & Control (CDC)
  • Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injury (CDC)
  • Think First Foundation
  Periodicals
  • Brain Injury Connection
  • Head to Head
  • Thrivenet
  Personal Stories of TBI
  • Dr. Claudia Osborn
  • John Milam
  • David Krempels
  • Linda Hunt

  • Marti Taylor