Brain Injury Lawyers Network

If you or someone you know has experienced traumatic brain injuries you need the help of a Chicago brain injury lawyer immediately. A Chicago brain injury lawyer can review medical files and explain which symptoms were a result of previous conditions and which were part of the injury. If a brain injury that results from a trauma were instead the consequence of a disease, it would be considered a “plague of epidemic proportions.” This is only a mild exaggeration. Regardless, the rates of TBI are extraordinarily high. The difficulty in properly and clearly defining, much less diagnosing, brain injury, particularly in early medical studies, means that there is a compromise in understanding the nature of the injury as well as its prevalence. Early medical studies, also called “epidemiological studies” to track TBI in the United States were also compromised due to a widespread ignorance regarding TBI. One example of this is that many of the studies between 1935 and 1981 required at least one of the following criteria in order to be included: 1) a loss of consciousness; 2) hospital admission; 3) positive neuro-radiological conclusions. These early studies did not include cases where the patient expired (died) prior to arriving at the hospital.