Philadelphia Injury Attorney Blog

Traumatic brain injury and closed head traumas are all to common in catastrophic car accidents. The Philadelphia car accident lawyers at Reiff & Bily recently received a call from a client whose mother sustained a closed head trauma and an acquired brain injury as a result of being a passenger in a serious car accident. When a catastrophic brain injury occurs, it does not affect individuals, it affects families. Many times brain injuries are an invisible disability and it is easy for the condition to be unnoticed, undiagnosed and unsupported and many doctors will state that no two brain injuries are alike. One of the main causes of brain injuries in the United States are car accidents. Most individuals who sustain a brain injury do not even realize that they have one. In our case, the victim began to display irregular and abnormal behavior patterns to her husband and daughter.

If you have been involved in a car accident or other catastrophic accident and suffer any one of the following symptoms, you may have suffered a brain injury:

loss of short term/long term memory
dizziness
agitation
blurred vision
loss of coordination
paresthesia
pins and needles in the limbs
weakness in the extremities
seizures
difficulty hearing
nausea/vomiting
irregular eye movement
loss of smell
loss of taste
affectation of cognitive thought process
convulsions