The hours and days immediately following a Kentucky brain injury can be critical and traumatic. As doctors tend to the acute needs of the brain injury victim, the victim and his or her loved ones may be wondering about survival. Everyone is in crisis mode….
One of the most severe injuries a person can encounter is cerebral oxygen deprivation. If brain cells are cut off from oxygen, they may begin to die in as little as five minutes–and once they are gone, brain cells may not be regenerated. In hypoxia…
Your brain injury has changed so many aspects of your life. Things that were once routine for you are now difficult and getting through the day may be a challenge. You need to find someone whom you trust to fight for your financial and legal…
As a parent, you are always careful to support your baby’s head when you put him down for a nap. But what you may not realize is that trauma to the head and neck is exactly what makes shaken baby syndrome so dangerous to an…
Some brain injuries, particularly relatively mild brain injuries such as concussions, reverse themselves. However, not all brain injury victims are that lucky. For those with lasting symptoms and limitations, there may be little hope of a complete cure. Instead, medical attention focuses on preventing the…
So many things change after you suffer a traumatic brain injury. You may be living in pain, you may be unable to work, and you may have lost a good deal of your independence. One of the things that you might miss the most is…