Category: <span>Recovery</span>

While all accidents have the potential for serious injuries, motorcycle riders are at an extra disadvantage. In a collision, they are completely vulnerable to cars, trucks, and other vehicles that weigh thousands of pounds. These are among the most serious of personal injuries and can cause brain and spinal cord issues, permanent disability, broken bones, and other life-altering consequences.

If you were involved in a serious accident as a motorcycle driver or passenger, you know how stressful the recovery period can be. It makes matters even worse when the responsible party’s insurance company refuses to pay or you don’t know who hit you because he or she fled the scene. In either situation, you need a competent personal injury attorney who puts your needs first.

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Are there stages of recovery from a head injury and if so what are they?

When the patient is asleep after a head injury is called coma or unconscious. Both mean the same thing but the coma description is the more usual. It may take days or weeks to move out of coma stage into a less coma stage. The patient rarely moves abruptly from being in a coma to being properly awake. Read more

There are three cardinal neuropathologic dimensions that are considered in the diagnosis. They are the a) distribution b) severity and c) types of pathology.

Focal Lesions: severity factors depend on location size (bigger lesions worse than small), depth (deep lesions worse than superficial). The pathologic process may involves hemorrhage, infarct, tumor, abscess, trauma and secondary effects (edema, mass effect, neuronal degeneration. Read more