Brain Injury
At The Schlachter Law Firm, many of our clients have suffered an injury to their brain that has left them with a neurological deficit. These injuries take many forms, such as paralysis, altered cognition and thinking ability, visual disorders or blindness, death, movement disorders, and a host of other disabling symptoms.
What can cause a brain injury?
Causes of brain injuries include: accidents causing trauma, surgical procedures which have gone wrong, so called surgical misadventures, strokes causing brain injury, conditions that have been misdiagnosed and allowed to progress to the point of brain injury occurs, as well other causes.
The brain is a very complex organ, likely the most complex in the body. Different sections or areas of the brain control certain functions such as movement of the opposite side of the body, sensation on the opposite side of the body, the ability to speak or understand language, the ability to see, hear, reason, have memory or emotions. In fact, all of these specialized areas work together through associational pathways. Elsewhere in this blog will be case reports that give examples of patients with brain injury caused by medical negligence.