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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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Special Brain Injury Supplement

Posted on December 18, 2008
The editors of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation have announced a special supplement to the December issue, highlighting traumatic brain injury (TBI). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is the official journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation...

Helmets for Hockey Coaches

Posted on December 14, 2008
I have always said that parents and coaches need to set the right example and wear helmets themselves when engaging in sporting activities. A recent policy in Canada implemented will require all minor league Hockey Coaches to wear helmets themselves. This policy is in addition to the requirement that players wear helmets...

Brain damage can be prevented in cardiac patients with cooling therapy

Posted on December 08, 2008
In recognition that prompt cooling therapy can reduce the chance of brain damage in patients suffering from cardiac arrest, the City of New York has taken the important step of requiring ambulances to only take cardiac patient's to hospitals that offer this therapy...

Brain Injury Legislative Update

Posted on December 07, 2008
The following brain injury legislative update has just been issued by the Brain Injury Association of America: 110th Congress Enters Its Last Week of Session; FY09 Appropriations Action Looms: The 110th Congress is expected to be in session for the last time next week, and along with the potential bailout of the automobile industry, it appears that appropriators in both chambers are working on conference negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) funding bills...

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Better Screening of Troops For Brain Injury Urged

Posted on December 06, 2008
A report issued by the Institute of Medicine, a government advisory group that studies health and medical issues, recommended that the military test all new recruits for cognitive skills and then do large-scale studies of returning combat veterans to better evaluate and respond to traumatic brain injury...

Congress takes up funding for Traumatic Brain Injury Programs

Posted on December 05, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of America has requested that I forward the following action alert to my readers concerning important congressional action on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) funding programs: Right now both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are reportedly working on the Fiscal 2009 Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education Appropriations bill in anticipation of action on the bill as soon as the new legislative session begins in January...

New Statistics on Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S.

Posted on December 01, 2008
The following press release was issued this morning by Susan Connors, CEO of the Brain Injury Association of America commenting on newly released data on the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States. The number of civilians in the United States living with a long-term disability from traumatic brain injury (TBI) is now estimated to be 3...

Brain Injury Association and Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation Form Partnership

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) and Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW) have entered into an agreement that designates the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR) as BIAA's official scholarly journal beginning January 1, 2009...

GW Graduate Brain Injury Programs Still Accepting Applications

Posted on November 25, 2008
The George Washington University (GW) has two excellent programs providing graduate training to serve individuals with traumatic brain injury. I have been privileged to be a guest lecturer for the past several semesters and can attest to the hih quality of the courses offered, the spirit and dedication of the student body and the commitment of the school's administration in improving the quality of life for persons with brain injury...

Brain Injury Association Legislative Update

Posted on November 22, 2008
The following information comes from the most recent Brain Injury Association of America Legislative Update: Defense Secretary Gates Responds to Senators? Letter on Cognitive Rehabilitation: United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has responded to the letter a group of Senators issued on August 4, 2008 calling on him to ensure official TRICARE coverage of cognitive rehabilitation...

New Ways To Demonstrate Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on November 18, 2008
An article in USA Today, "Mild Brain injuries are now easier for doctors to detect" reports on research presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The researchers reported that by combining tow advance brain scanning techniques, MEG (magnetoencephalography) and DTI (diffusion tensor imaging), they were able to discover brain injury that conventional MRI and CT studies had missed...

Can a redesigned helmet prevent brain injury?

Posted on November 18, 2008
The brain can be injured in many ways. Although popular opinion is that direct impact is necessary for injury to the brain, this is not true. Frequently, the brain is injured from indirect forces causing the movement of the brain within the skull. One such indirect injury is the blast injury sustained by solders...

Decompresive craniectomy following severe traumatic brain injury

Posted on November 16, 2008
A decompressive craniectomy can be a life-saving procedure to relieve critically increased intracranial pressure. In a paper published in the journal Neurosurgery (October 2008), the author's investigated what the long term clinical results were following this procedure...

Care Givers Need To Be Compensated For Their Services

Posted on November 15, 2008
The New York Times had a very important story earlier this week entitled "Veterans' Families Seek Aid For Caregiver Role". The story explored the difficulties that family members who are acting as caregivers for those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury have in obtaining compensation for their services...

Head Injury and ADHD

Posted on November 14, 2008
There has always been a reported connection between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and head injury. Researchers have set out to determine if the head injury is the cause of the development of ADHD. In a paper published in the British Medical Journal this week, the researchers found that it is the trait of excessive risk taking shared by children with ADHD and those who have sustained a head injury and not the head injury itself that is the cause...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Posted on November 12, 2008
Carbon Monoxide poisoning frequently results in brain damage. As the temperature gets colder and more furnaces and portable heaters are used, there is a dramatic increase in carbon monoxide poisoning cases. The Poison Control Center today issued the following warning and press release pertaining to the dangers of carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning in the winter season: The onset of cold weather greatly increases the chances for exposure to poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) gas as consumers increase their use of appliances such as space heaters andportable generators, warns the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)...

How Brain Science May Change the Way We Live

Posted on November 10, 2008
Thanks to Brain Wave for alerting us to a new article in this month's The Oprah Magazine entitled, The Brain Age. Cutting-edge neuroscience has escaped from the lab and is suddenly showing up everywhere, changing the way we practice law, go shopping?even, possibly, fall in love...

Brain Injury Lawyer Named Editor of Trial Lawyers Legal Monthly Update

Posted on November 09, 2008
Congratulations to my partner, Shana De Caro for being named as an editor by the New York Academy of Trial Lawyers of their monthly law update. The law update is designed to summarize the most significant cases decided by the New York appellate courts and is distributed on a monthly basis to all academy members...

November Brain Injury Conference Information

Posted on November 05, 2008
Several interesting brain injury conferences are scheduled for the remainder of November. They are as follows: November 10-11Brain Injury Business Practice CollegeLas Vegas, NVBrain Injury Association of America November 20TBI Seizures: Myths, Realities and Practicalities (online)Brain Trauma Organization November 21-22Advanced Cognitve Rehabilitation WorkshopLondon, United KingdomBrain Tree November 21-23State of the Art Medical and Rehabilitative Care in Brain InjuryNapa, CACalifornia Brain Injury Association If you have a future brain injury event that you would like me to include in future posts, please email me, brain injury lawyer

Brain Injury Caregiver Support Conference

Posted on October 31, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of New York State in cooperation with Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation is sponsoring a one day program for Individuals with traumatic brain injury and their caregivers to explore supports and resources. The topics scheduled to be discussed include: rebuilding relationships following brain damage including social networking and recreation; community reentry programs following a traumatic brain injury and a session devoted to sharing strategies for caregivers of those who have sustained a brain injury...

Brain Injury Association of New York State Awards Dinner

Posted on October 31, 2008
On Wednesday evening, I had the privilege of being one of the sponsors along with the brain injury law firm of De Caro & Kaplen, LLP of the gala dinner on behalf of the Brain Injury Association of New York State. The dinner honored Steven R. Flanagan, M...

Early and Aggressive Treatment of Jaundice in Pre-Term Infants Reduces Risk of Brain Damage

Posted on October 30, 2008
Early treatment to prevent severe newborn jaundice in extremely early preterm infants reduces the infants' rate of brain injury, according to a study in the October 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Jaundice in new borns is frequently the result of high billirubin levels caused by blood incapability between the mother and the new born...

Interstate Trucking Accidents and Brain Injury

Posted on October 29, 2008
I've just returned from Atlanta where I gave a presentation on Traumatic Brain Injury to The Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. Our law firm has handled many brain injury cases that were caused by a big truck wreck...

Assistance for Parents With Disabilities

Posted on October 28, 2008
A new National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families has been established in Berkeley, California under the auspices of Through the Looking Glass, a non-profit organization founded in 1982. The Center will oversee several national research studies concerning parents with disabilities and their families, as well as provide consultations, trainings and publications to parents, family members and professionals...

National Academy of Neuropsychology Conference Update

Posted on October 23, 2008
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to address neuropsycholgists at the National Academy of Neuropsychology's (NAN) annual conference on the interaction between attorneys and neuropsycholigsts in the courtroom and the use of neuropsychological testing to prove and/or disprove traumatic brain injury...

Using the Arts to Promote Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Posted on October 22, 2008
Art therapy has been shown to be a powerful tool in brain injury rehabilitation. A conference designed to explore this exciting form of therapy has been planned by the Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS). The conference is scheduled for November 3, 2009 in New York City...

Repeat concussions can lead to coma

Posted on October 16, 2008
The New York Times reports of a tragic injury suffered by a high school football player in New Jersey who is in critical condition and unlikely to recover after sustaining a brain hemorrhage during a recent game. The player, a junior linebacker, collapsed after making a tackle during a junior varsity game...

Feeling Tired After Brain Injury?

Posted on October 12, 2008
An interesting study confirms that following recovery from brain damage, patient's may have to use more of their brains then they did before the brain trauma. The study published in the September 9th issue of Neurology found that patients who sustained diffuse axonal injury and returned to pre-injury levels of functioning in either school or work required more regions of their brains to perform tasks related to executive functioning and working memory...

New York State Brain Injury Conference

Posted on October 12, 2008
The New York State Department of Health Traumatic Brain Injury Program is again sponsoring its Working Together: Best Practice 2008, Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference on October 16th in Albany, New York from 8 AM to 5 PM. The conference will be held at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center...

New Concussion Awareness Program

Posted on October 10, 2008
A new concussion awareness program has been developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in affliation with the Brain Injury Association of Washington and the Seattle Seahawks...

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