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Brain Injury From Accidents in North Carolina Pose a Significant Problem for Families

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a very important and current topic in injury lawyer circles. Unfortunately, many people who suffer a mild or moderate traumatic brain injury go undiagnosed for some time after the car wreck or other accident which harmed them. Part of the reason for this delay in the medical recognition of the effects of closed head injury is that is most cases these kinds of injuries are not detected by the common hospital diagnostic equipment like CT scans and MRI’s. So a person can come into an emergency room and the doctor will not be able to realize at that point that the patient has a significant closed head injury which will ultimately be a permanent problem.

In our injury practice, we often see that patients are not treated promptly for the physical and cognitive impairments from traumatic brain injury. It often takes a really good doctor who is paying attention to the sometimes subtle symptoms of memory problems, irritability or sensitivity to light which can be part of the constellation of symptoms from a brain injury. The difficulty is that the person often looks fairly normal. A lot of health care practitioners will simply chalk up depression, headaches or other symptoms to some other aspect of the injury or the person’s situation. It is often a confusing situation for the patient themselves as they may not realize what is going on with them. Many times we as caring and experienced lawyers find out by interviewing family members that the person who has been in an accident really needs to be worked up to determine if there has been a traumatic brain injury with permanent consequences.

About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton personal injury law firm is based in Virginia (VA), near the NE North Carolina (NC) border and handles car,truck,railroad, and medical negligence cases and more. Our lawyers proudly edit the Virginia Beach Injuryboard, Norfolk Injuryboard, and Northeast North Carolina Injuryboard as a pro bono public information service. Lawyers licensed in: VA, NC, SC, WV, DC, KY.

    

As to North Carolina (NC) personal injury cases we serve all NC areas including: the Outer Banks, Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Manteo, Corolla, Currituck, Dare, Elizabeth City, Edenton, Raleigh, Durham, Rocky Mount, Roanoke Rapids, Greensboro, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Halifax, Northampton,  Greenville, Goldsboro, Havelock, Kinston, New Bern, Tarboro, Wilson, Ahoskie, Currituck, Camden and any other county.

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