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Traumatic Brain Injury
Also known as intracranial injury/head injury; a traumatic brain injury occurs when sudden trauma causes brain damage, which is known as acquired brain injury.
The main cause of traumatic brain injury is through becoming involved in a fall or a road traffic accident. Traumatic brain injury can leave you with the following symptoms:
- Loss of consciousness
- Personality change
- A severe, persistent, or worsening headache
- Repeated vomiting or nausea
- Seizures
- Inability to awaken
- Dilation (widening) of one or both pupils
- Slurred speech
- Weakness or numbness in the extremities
- Loss of coordination
- Increased confusion, restlessness, or agitation
- Vomiting and neurological deficit (e.g. weakness in a limb)
A traumatic brain injury not only has the potential to cause you serious physical injury, it can also highly effect you emotionally. A traumatic brain injury victim is often described as the "walking wounded," owing to psychological problems. Sufferers of Traumatic brain injury could end up suffering emotional or behavioural problems that fit under the broad category of psychiatric health, including; depression, apathy, anxiety, irritability, anger, paranoia, confusion, frustration, agitation, insomnia or other sleep problems, and mood swings.
Becoming the victim of a personal injury accident, such as a road traffic accident, motorcycle accident, work place accident or a slip, trip or fall, all have the potential of leaving you with a traumatic brain injury. A traumatic brain injury would alter your life completely and in certain cases could even result in death.
If you have been involved in a personal injury accident in the last three years that has resulted in you suffering a traumatic brain injury then you could be entitled to compensation.
Personal injury law was put in place to compensate the victims of accidents who have suffered due to the negligence of another person. If you have become the victim of a personal injury accident in the last three years that has resulted in traumatic brain injury then contact Accident Consult today by calling us on 08081 68 69 70 or by filling in our online claim form.
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