There are certain behaviors that can assist in recovering from a brain injury. They include the following: 1. Getting plenty of sleep at night 2. Making sure you rest and not stress your brain during the day 3. Return to normal activity gradually 4. Avoid activities that could result in a second impact to your head causing additional injury to your brain such as contact sports 5. Do not drive a car, ride a bike or operate heavy equipment until your doctor advises you that it is appropriate for you to do so 6. Do not undertake complex work or school assignments until your physician approves it. Additionally, ensure that your employer or teacher understands the reasons why you must reduce the stress level on your brain 7. Do not take alcoholic beverages until approved to do so by your physician 8. Develop compensatory methodologies to make up for difficulties the brain injury is causing you. This will reduce stress significantly. For example, assure that you make lists of things you need to do so that you will not have to rely on your memory to remember the list of groceries or other items on your “to do list”. The feeling of having forgotten something and the annoyance with yourself is stress that you should avoid. In the event that you have sustained a brain injury as a result of an automobile accident, slip and fall or other traumatic event which you believe was as a result of the carelessness of others, contact the Brain Injury Lawyers at Chaikin & Sherman, P.C. for a free consultation. You may be entitled to significant compensation in the event that a third party’s carelessness was the cause of your severe brain injury. by Ira Sherman, Esq.
Three of the firm’s partners — including the co-founders of the Brain Injury Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC — discuss TBI litigation, the firm’s preferred attorney status with the Brain Injury Association of America, and the DC Athletic Concussion Protection Act, which attorney Joseph Cammarata drafted into law.
Video Transcript
Ira Sherman (00:01): Your brain is like the yolk in an egg, so when you shake the egg, you don’t have to crack it. You just go like that, and the yolk is affected. I was on the board of Directors of the Brain Injury Association of America. I was treasurer of the Brain Injury Association of America. Mr. Camara and I started the DC chapter, the Affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America, which didn’t exist. We are the preferred lawyers of the Brain Injury Association in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. And what I mean by that is, is that the Brain Injury Association of America designates individual attorneys that they recognize as being experienced in handling cases involving traumatic brain injury to determine if they have a case and make sure that it’s handled properly.
Allan Siegel (00:54): You get hurt in sports and you get sent right back into the game, or you knocked your head and you get back up and you go about your day. Nobody really thought much about those injuries a long time ago, but we did. We understood the seriousness of those types of injuries and how sometimes you could have serious ongoing effects from what is even a mild traumatic brain injury or what is often referred to as a concussion.
Joseph Cammarata (01:21): I co-founded the Brain Injury Association of Washington, DC. I drafted legislation which became law in the District of Columbia to protect youth athletes from concussion. Concussion is a brain injury, a traumatic brain injury that can cause significant harm, cognitive deficits, emotional disturbances, vision problems, hearing problems. And so it’s important to be able to do the investigation, but do the legwork that’s necessary to put together the case to establish that there has been harm, but it’s invisible, right? You can’t see it, but the impact is real. And so it’s our job to bring to life the impact and show that this is real as a result of some trauma.
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