Head & Brain Injuries

• Common Questions About Head and Brain Injury

  Rick Shapiro | March 01, 2006 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  While there are pesonal injury cases where head or brain injury is diagnosed immediately, the more common scenario involves diagnosis through specialists well after the injury occurs. Some of the common questions are answered below.What is a traumatic head/brain injury?A traumatic brain/head injury is an injury to the brain caused by an outside force, which results in an impairment of a...

• New Brain Injury Imaging Method Introduced

  Staff Writer | February 17, 2006 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Bruce Stern over at the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog notes that a team of doctors at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new technique for Traumatic Brain Injury imaging.Bruce summarizes that the testshows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates. Test subjects heads were placed in the soft netting. They were then asked to raise and lower their heads about an inch...