Today I want to discuss two (of many) types of soft tissue injuries that may result from a low-impact car accident: sprains and strains and closed-head brain injury. The latter sounds much more serious than the former. But both can result in a significantly lower quality of life for the victims.In smaller car accidents, the risk of traumatic brain trauma (TBI) is very real. After a car accident, you may experience loss of consciousness, trouble with mental focus, headache, dizziness, unusual odors, etc.. All of these symptoms, as well as others, may indicate a brain injury. In their study, the physicians usually are first order a CT scan to determine if it is. Around a bleeding If so, a craniotomy is likely to be performed to drain the blood. Doctors may also order PET or MRI to see if there are any objective brain injuries.
But usually, especially in a low-impact car accident, there will be no objective finding on these tests. However, the patient may suffer one or more of the above brain injury symptoms. As a last resort neuropsychological evaluations may be ordered to prove the violation. But these are very expensive and are generally used only when a serious injury target is present.
As a result, those who suffer these mild TBIs are often under-compensated. Medical technology has only progressed so far. Without an objective injury, it is very difficult that the difficulties remembering things or concentrating problems were the result of motor vehicle accident (and not, say, the normal effects of aging related) to prove. Often the symptoms are not dramatic enough to cause the sufferer to his / her doctor in a way that will justify ordering expensive neuropsychological tests would complain.
In this situation, the saving grace of the presentation of a "before-and-after witness." That is exactly what it sounds like. As Miami traumatic brain injury lawyer, I will for someone in my client's life that made him / her look before and knew after the car accident. Someone who can truthfully say with certainty that my client's life has changed for the worse as a result of the subject crash. A before-and-after (B & A) tools can be a family member, friend, neighbor or colleague. The more independent they are, the better appear before a jury. For example, it could be assumed that my client's spouse would rather have an incentive to be exaggerating injuries in comparison to a colleague at work the effects of a minor-car-accident.
When you hear that someone is a sprain or strain, it is believed that it heal a minor injury, which is completely in a relatively short time. Normally, this assumption would be correct. But sometimes what starts as a sprain or strain into permanent painful conditions, which are, admittedly, turn not well understood. Examples include fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome and chronic pain syndrome. If there is evidence of expensive medical care, maybe a few lost wages - to Again, it will usually use a lack of strong evidence of objective evidence of a plaintiff's case, and again, the B & A witness will be essential to prove that the sprain or strain turned into something that significantly reduces my client's quality of life. This is rare in a sprain / strain situation - but it is something that a good Miami car accident lawyer will be on the lookout for.
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