As understanding and awareness of the risk of concussions and more severe traumatic brain injuries grows, fans’ appreciation of the sound of football helmets colliding shrinks. But thanks to researchers at the Naval Academy, this cracking sound may be the source of new information about how brain injuries occur, and how to prevent and treat… Read More
Brain Injuries’ Massive Societal Costs
For the past month, our brain injury attorneys have been conducting an ongoing series on the various types and causes of brain injury. As national Brain Injury Awareness Month comes to a close, today we take a step back to look at the dramatic societal costs of these various neurological conditions. Brain injuries are more… Read More
Encephalomalacia Brain Injury in Children and Adults
This month, the Chicago personal injury lawyers of Passen & Powell have been focusing on the many types and causes of traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury in connection with national Brain Injury Awareness Month. Today, we take a closer look at encephalomalacia, a serious form of brain injury that can occur at birth or throughout… Read More
KY Truck Accident Highlights Continuing Problems with Trucking Safety
As Chicago personal injury lawyers with substantial experience handling trucking accident cases, we are familiar with the devastation caused by crashes involving tractor-trailer trucks. Yesterday was a brutal example of such devastation. A trucking accident in Kentucky claimed the lives of at least eleven people and injured many more. The accident, which happened just before… Read More
Cerebral Palsy: Our Brain Injury Lawyers Take a Closer Look
This month, the Chicago personal injury lawyers of Passen & Powell have been exploring traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury in connection with national Brain Injury Awareness Month. Although we have previously mentioned cerebral palsy in our exploration of acquired brain in children, today we take a closer look at cerebral palsy in general. Cerebral palsy… Read More
Red Sox Player Brain Injury Calls Attention to Malformations of the Brain
This week, the Chicago personal injury lawyers of Passen & Powell are examining the types of brain injury receiving attention through the struggles of some of our nation’s sports stars, as a part of our ongoing recognition of national Brain Injury Awareness Month. Today we examine malformations of the brain, including the cavernous malformation of… Read More
Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports and Beyond
This week, the Chicago personal injury lawyers of Passen & Powell continue our month-long discussion of traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury in connection with national Brain Injury Awareness Month. Today we take a closer look at concussions, a typically mild form of traumatic brain injury that has drawn the focus of many Chicagoans thanks to… Read More
Acquired Brain Injury in Children Caused by Negligence at Birth
This week, Passen & Powell’s Chicago personal injury lawyers have been discussing hypoxic-anoxic injury (HAI), a serious form of acquired brain injury. Our lawyers understand how devastating hypoxia and anoxia-related brain injuries can be for those who sustain such injuries, as well as their families. As with all permanent brain injuries, HAI carries… Read More
Types and Causes of Hypoxic-Anoxic Brain Injury
Chicago personal injury lawyers have engaged in a month-long discussion of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and nontraumatic brain injury in recognition of national Brain Injury Awareness Month. Today, our brain injury lawyers continue their exploration of hypoxic-anoxic injury (HAI), a severe and often devastating form of nontraumatic brain injury, looking at the causes of HAI…. Read More
Hypoxia and Anoxia Brain Injury: Categories and Symptoms
Today, our Chicago personal injury lawyers continue to explore nontraumatic brain injuries and, in particular, hypoxic-anoxic injuries (HAI). As our Chicago brain injury attorneys explained yesterday, hypoxia occurs when the brain is deprived of adequate oxygen supply. Anoxia occurs where there is complete deprivation of oxygen supply to the brain. Either condition may result in… Read More
