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The Essential Steps to Take if Your Child Suffers a Serious Injury
The primary difference between a traumatic brain injury and an acquired brain injury is that a traumatic brain injury is usually the result of force trauma outside the skull. An acquired brain injury is normally caused by widespread brain damage such as lack of oxygen, toxic substances, or chronic disease. Traumatic brain injury is caused [...]
Recent statistics from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) report that of the estimated 1.7 million annual victims of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), nearly 52,000 die, 275,000 are hospitalized, and more than 1.3 million are treated and released from an emergency room. Of these 1.7 million victims, almost half a million are children ages [...]
One of a parent’s worst nightmares is that their child suffers a serious injury that leads to a traumatic brain injury. Unlike many other common child injuries, traumatic brain injuries are much more difficult to treat and can lead to permanent mental and physical impairment or even death. If your child has suffered injury because [...]
Complications from a Traumatic Brain Injury No two head injuries are alike, and therefore there are many different effects your child may or may not experience after suffering a traumatic brain injury. In the case of long-term disability, your Andover child injury lawyer can help you estimate the lifelong care he or she will need [...]
To further raise awareness of the importance of child safety seats, the National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is launching its 2010 Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Week, with the goal of urging parents to verify that their child safety seats are properly installed and correctly used. The safety campaign will start September 19th and last till September 25, 2010. According [...]
Children are the most valuable part of our society, and the most vulnerable. Kids love to engage in sports and other physical and outdoor activities, but every joy has its price and sometimes even innocent actions can put children’s lives in danger. Biking is one of the most fun activities for children. Seeing your little one [...]
Every 23 seconds someone in the United States sustains a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compiled a list of informative sites when it comes to child injuries, in an effort to provide educational resources across the Web on this issue. Both accidental and intentional injuries inflicted on children are a sad reality, and one of the CDC’s main goals is to put [...]
The most common birth injury is Cerebral Palsy.
A distressing news brief out of New Hampshire yesterday left us with an unthinkable case of child abuse. The parents of a 2-year-old girl claim that their daughter inflicted her own injuries on herself and, to what can only be interpreted as their desperate attempts to prove it, they videotaped the girl hitting and poking [...]
