Little Rock Traumatic Brain Injury Attorneys, Arkansas

Fighting for Arkansas TBI victims and families

Traumatic brain injuries are among the most severe types of injuries accident victims can suffer. Many victims die. Others lose cognitive abilities or the ability to function normally, let alone enjoy life, and many suffer from anxiety and depression. Patients often need treatment with a broad range of specialists and therapists. Many victims require a lifetime of care. For most TBI patients, their life is never the same as it was before the accident.

At Bailey & Greer, PLLC, we work with your doctors and independent physicians to determine the full scope of your medical difficulties and your long-term prognosis and needs. We work to hold drivers, manufacturers, property owners, and anyone else responsible for your injuries fully accountable for the physical pain, emotional suffering, loss of function, lost income, and medical expenses victims with a TBI suffer. Our Little Rock TBI attorneys lawyers have negotiated strong settlements and won substantial jury verdicts for many of our personal injury clients.

What is a traumatic brain injury?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over two and a half million people visited an ER or hospital in 2014 for a traumatic brain injury – 837,000 of these people were children. A TBI is a blow to the head or a penetrating brain injury that “disrupts normal brain function.” TBIs are generally categorized as mild or severe. In the worst cases, they’re fatal.

Symptoms of TBIs, according to the Mayo Clinic, are broken down into physical, sensory, and cognitive.

In mild cases, the symptoms are:

• Physical difficulties including loss of consciousness for a brief time, a feeling of being dazed, headaches, nausea or vomiting, speech difficulties, difficulty sleeping, tiredness, and loss of balance.
• Sensory problems including ringing in the ears, blurry vision, sensitivity to light, and bad taste sensations.
• Cognitive symptoms including memory problems, difficulty concentrating, mood changes, and depression.

In moderate to severe TBIs, the symptoms are:

• Physical symptoms including losing consciousness for minutes or hours, headaches that won’t go away, repeat nausea, seizures and convulsions, dilated pupils, inability to awaken, numbness in toes and fingers, and loss of coordination.
• Cognitive symptoms including slurred speech, combativeness, deep confusion, coma or other types of consciousness disorders.

Long-term TBI symptoms include cognitive defects, loss of motor control, sensory defects, psychological problems, difficulty communicating, difficulty bathing and dressing, social changes, and other serious health issues.

Children have another set of symptoms that can be especially hard to recognize without a medical review, as children have difficulty describing pain and emotion. A traumatic brain injury that occurs due to a violent blow or force is also called acquired brain injury (ABI). Doctors use the Glasgow Coma Scale to determine the seriousness of a traumatic brain injury.