Atlanta Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer
Atlanta Traumatic Brain Injury Attorney Overview
- The First Step: Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury
- The Hardest Cases Need the Strongest Advocates
- What Accidents Cause Severe Brain Trauma in Georgia?
- Common Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury
- Why Work with a Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer in Atlanta?
- Find Recovery Options with an Atlanta Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer
Your brain has one piece of armor: about half an inch of skull. Most days, that’s plenty. One violent blow or deep puncture wound, and it isn’t.
A traumatic brain injury is a wound that medicine often can’t undo. Once brain tissue is damaged, it’s hard to repair it. Surgery, when it’s even on the table, carries its own serious risks. That’s the reality families face when a car wreck, a motorcycle crash, a fall, or a violent assault leaves someone they love changed for good. The symptoms are brutal: mood swings, lost motor function, slurred speech, and more.
But medical procedures aren’t the only options for recovery. When someone else’s negligence caused the injury, the law gives you a way to fight back.
At Bey & Associates, our Atlanta traumatic brain injury lawyers help victims and their families pursue the compensation that makes recovery affordable by holding the at-fault party accountable. You focus on healing. We’ll handle the fight.
The First Step: Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain trauma is more common than people think. The CDC counted about 69,000 TBI-related deaths in 2021 and roughly 214,000 TBI-related hospitalizations in 2020. Those figures don’t even count the millions of milder injuries treated and released from emergency rooms. Today, an estimated 5.3 million Americans live with a lasting TBI-related disability.
Here’s what the numbers miss: TBIs are trickier than a lot of doctors admit. A concussion, the so-called “mild” TBI, was long waved off as no big deal. We know better now. Stack up enough of them, and the damage can turn severe, lifelong, and degenerative.
Nowhere is that clearer than in sports. Contact sports like football, hockey, and even soccer are concussion factories. The CDC estimates that there are about 1.6 to 3.8 million sports-and recreation-related concussions in the U.S. every year. And concussions are sneaky. Plenty of victims feel fine at first. The damage shows up later.
Atlanta Personal Injury Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Every time we enter the doors to a hospital, doctor's office, or other medical facility, we expect safe, competent care. When that doesn't happen, you deserve answers.
Car Accidents
A car wreck can change your life in the blink of an eye. If you’ve been seriously injured because of another driver’s negligence, you need help now.
Truck Accidents
Large truck and commercial truck accidents are some of the most devastating accidents we see across the United States and in Georgia.
Wrongful Death
The unexpected loss of a loved one is one of the most traumatic experiences a family can go through. When the death should have been prevented, the loss devastating.
Work Injuries
If you’ve been seriously injured while on the job, you’re likely already aware that your employer doesn’t make providing for your family a simple task.
Nursing Home Abuse
Even if you’re confident you’ve found a safe environment for them, it’s important to remember that there are negligent care facilities that abuse their residents.
What Accidents Cause Severe Brain Trauma in Georgia?
You don’t want to face a brain injury or the legal case that follows on your own. According to the Brain Injury Association of Georgia, traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults. Roughly 150,000 Georgians live with permanent disabilities from brain injuries, and about 50,000 residents suffer a TBI every year. Of those, about 3,000 are left permanently disabled.
So where do these injuries come from? In Georgia, four causes account for most of them:
- Falls: Almost 50% of all brain injuries in Georgia are caused by a fall. Slip and fall accidents (when someone trips, slips, or stumbles, resulting in a fall) are prevalent and do have legal recourse if the fall occurs on someone else’s property and the owner can be found negligent.
- Car Accidents: 24% of all brain injuries in our state are caused by car accidents. The brain and head are susceptible to blunt force trauma, which commonly results after a major crash.
- Being Physically Struck: 14% of TBI cases in Georgia are due to being struck by a person or object—intentionally or unintentionally. This includes most contact sports.
- Violent Crimes: Finally, 11% of TBI cases in our state are caused by violent crimes such as gunshots, head trauma, or knife wounds during assaults.
Common Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury
There are a wide variety of symptoms that TBI victims may experience. Many victims experience symptoms in a delayed manner due to the way our brains process pain. Many other victims will only experience minor symptoms when a more significant issue arises.
Since most TBI-related conditions occur due to direct trauma, it’s highly recommended to seek medical attention after any sort of head injury and/or trauma—no matter how minor the immediate symptoms may seem.
Here’s a list of the most common TBI symptoms, ranging from mild to severe:
- Persistent headache.
- Extreme tiredness/fatigue.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Confusion/disorientation.
- Blurred vision.
- Sensitivity to light and/or sound.
- Inability to concentrate.
- Difficulty sleeping and/or staying awake.
- Ringing sensation in the ears.
- Vomiting/nausea.
- Mood changes.
- Weakness in the extremities, such as in the fingers or toes.
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