The Law Office of Dabbs and Pomtree has been successful in handling brain injury cases in Arkansas. These actions have ranged from traumatic to closed head injuries.

TRAUMATIC brain injury (TBI): is an insult to the brain, not of degenerative or congenital nature caused by an external physical force that may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness, which results in an impairment of cognitive abilities or physical functioning. It can also result in the disturbance of behavioral or emotional functioning.

ACQUIRED brain injury (ABI): injury to the brain which is not hereditary, congenital or degenerative.

  • An estimated 5.3 million Americans—a little more than 2% of the U.S. population—currently live with disabilities resulting from brain injury.
  • It is estimated that one million people are treated for TBI and released from hospital emergency rooms every year.
  • Each year, 80,000 Americans experience the onset of long-term disability following TBI.
  • More than 50,000 people die every year as a result of TBI.
  • Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of brain injury. They account for 50% of all TBI.
  • Falls are the second leading cause, and the leading cause of brain injury in the elderly.
  • The risk of TBI is highest among adolescents, young adults and those older than 75.
  • After one brain injury, the risk for a second injury is three times greater; after the second injury, the risk for a third injury is eight times greater.
  • The cost of traumatic brain injury in the United States is estimated to be $48.3 billion annually. Hospitalization accounts for $31.7 billion, and fatal brain injuries cost the nation $16.6 billion each year.

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The Consequences of brain injury can affect a person cognitively, physically and emotionally.

COGNITIVE consequences can include:

  • Short term memory loss
  • Long term memory loss
  • Slowed ability to process information
  • Trouble concentrating or paying attention for periods of time
  • Difficulty keeping up with a conversation
    other communication difficulties such as word finding problems
  • Spatial disorientation
  • Organizational problems and impaired judgment
  • Unable to do more than one thing at a time

PHYSICAL consequences can include:

  • Seizures of all types
  • Muscle spasticity
  • Double vision or low vision, even blindness
  • Loss of smell or taste
  • Speech impairments such as slow or slurred speech;
  • Headaches or migraines
  • Fatigue, increased need for sleep; balance problems
    pain

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EMOTIONAL consequences can include:

  • A lack of initiating activities, or once started, difficulty in completing tasks without reminders
  • Increased anxiety
  • Depression and mood swings
  • Denial of deficits
  • Impulsive behavior
  • More easily agitated
  • Egocentric behaviors; difficulty seeing how behaviors can affect others

CLOSED Head Injuries
 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 idiosyncrasies 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.

To contact a personal injury attorney, please fill out the form on our contact page. Please include your phone number and/or email address as well as the Who? What? When? Where? and How? of your situation. The work will be done on our end!

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