National Winter Sports TBI Awareness Month

Often, when we think of brain injury and sports, football, soccer, and baseball come to mind. However, winter sports also come with head injury risks, making both awareness and safety precautions necessary. January is National Winter Sports TBI Awareness Month, an effort to raise awareness of the risks winter sports pose for traumatic brain injury….

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What are the Leading Causes of Traumatic Brain Injury?

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can profoundly impact every aspect of a victim’s life. Long-term consequences of TBI include mood swings, memory and concentration problems, depression and anxiety, sensitivity to light and sound, chronic headaches, and visual problems. Balancing difficulties, reduced language skills, seizures, and paralysis may also accompany TBI. So too might uncontrollable urges,…

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What Qualifies as a Traumatic Brain Injury?

A traumatic brain injury is one that causes sudden and severe brain trauma or damage. A TBI may result from something penetrating or stabbing the skull and brain, or when the head is bumped, jolted, or shaken. Traumatic brain injuries vary in severity and may be as mild as a concussion, or may be…

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What Counts as a Catastrophic Injury?

A catastrophic injury is any harm that is so severe that it causes a permanent change to the victim’s day-to-day routine. In addition, the consequences of the injury also affect the victim’s family, often requiring long-term care. Here are some of the most common catastrophic injuries that a victim may suffer in an accident….

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Common Brain Injury Symptoms

For Brain Injury Awareness Month, we are taking a look at the common causes for traumatic brain injuries in personal injury cases. If you have sustained a serious brain injury due to the negligence of another, the attorneys of Shaw Cowart LLP can help fight for the compensation you deserve. To setup a complimentary…

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Potential Cognitive Impacts of a Brain Injury

Brain injuries can have devastating short-and-long-term effects on your health and cognitive ability.  The specific impacts of an injury may not become apparent until long after it occurred. This infographic breaks down the potential issues that a brain injury can cause. Contact Our Austin Brain Injury Lawyers Today If you or a loved one…

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TBI: How it Happens, and the Signs

Undiagnosed traumatic brain injury (TBI) can change and endanger your life in unpredictable ways. It happens much more often than you might imagine. Undiagnosed TBI can be the underlying cause of mental health issues that upend your life, and for which you never get proper treatment. Seizure disorders are a common result of TBI,…

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Traumatic Brain Injury Claims

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often referred to as an invisible disability, because for many victims there are no obvious outward signs of the effects that they are suffering. Of course, TBI can be a catastrophic injury requiring 24-hour care. But for those who do not suffer physical impairments it can still mean never…

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Concussions in Girls May be More Common, More Severe

Both boys and girls may experience concussions while playing sports or engaging in other activities. But several new studies indicate that when girls receive a concussion, they may have more severe symptoms, suffer more damage, and need more time to heal. One recent study tracked 549 patients – both boys and girls – who…

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