The Post Concussion Syndrome Page provides information about the post concussion syndrome, brain injury, concussion, coma and head injury, for traumatic brain injury survivors, families of survivors, and caregivers.
This page is here to provide education and assistance with the process of diagnosis and proof of post concussion syndrome, brain injury, sometimes called head injury. This page features articles, essays, information and diagrams about traumatic brain injury.
About our Advocacy: We of the Brain Injury Law Group make our living as advocates. But advocacy is more than lawyering. Advocacy means dedicating resources to the community we serve - the survivor, the family member of the survivor, the medical professional. To that end, we have created these pages, to provide information, resources and links, to help you learn and solve the problems you face.
Who We Represent: The actual practice of the Brain Injury Law Group is representing individuals injured as a result of the wrongful conduct or negligence of someone else.
Of the questions we have heard in our years of brain injury advocacy, three themes keep repeating themselves:
- With extended coma cases, the doctors are saying only "we will just have to wait and see."
- In post concussion syndrome cases, the doctors are saying there was no permanent brain injury; and
- Regardless of the severity of the injury, there is ignorance about the long term behavioral problems and symptoms of brain injury.
Thus, this page now begins with three major divisions:
- Extended coma Injuries
- Subtle© Brain injuries, that condition formerly known as "mild brain injury"; and
- Brain Injury Symptomatology.
Coma: Our focus since the beginning of our web advocacy has been on what can we do to help the family and friends of someone in a brain injury coma, while they are waiting for progress. That continues to be the theme of this page, and its companion page: waiting.com.
Subtle© Brain Injury: Our starting point of what we now simply call "subtle brain injury" (what is medically referred to as the post concussion syndrome) is overcoming the misconceptions about brain injury. A brain injury can occur even though there was no documented loss of consciousness, no blow to the head, and negative imaging studies. We have substantially expanded our efforts to explain the science of "subtle brain injury" at subtlebraininjury.com. To continue on with our treatment of the post concussion syndrome on this page click here.
Symptomatology: The third major area of focus is a detailed treatment of the symptomatology of brain injury. The classic approach is that those with coma injuries have very specific focal deficits. Yet, from the beginning of our brain injury advocacy, we have been struck by the paradox of the numerous miracles in coma cases, and the countless tragedies in the non-coma cases. What begin as drastically different medical emergencies, pose remarkably similar challenges to the survivor and the survivor's family and friends. After the severe brain injury conditions have been identified and treated, the diffuse and subtle problems relating to fatigue, memory, multi-attending and depression remain. So while we have expanded our treatment of the focal deficits, our most important challenge is to broaden understanding of the subtle effects of brain injury. Click here.
The Brain Injury Law Group is involved with a network of plaintiff's trial lawyers across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with traumatic brain injuries and a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of TBI, so we may be of better service to the survivors of brain injury. This network of lawyers are not part of a national law firm. We have separate law practices and are licensed to practice only in our home states.
The Brain Injury Law Group is here to listen and for that reason we maintain an 800 number and a staff willing to discuss your case and legal information where appropriate. There is no charge to call. We only represent people on a contingent fee basis and charge a fee only when we recover for the client. For more on Attorney Gordon Johnson, click here.