Category Archives: Brain Injury
What Causes Brain Injuries?
Motor vehicle collisions cause most of the brain injuries in California. As outlined below, car crashes combine all three underlying causes of traumatic brain injuries. These injuries are very difficult to diagnose, a fact that the story of Allman Brothers bass player Berry Oakley sadly illustrates. In 1972, Oakley was in a motorcycle crash… Read More »
The Five Kinds of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Other than combat stress, car crash stress is the leading cause of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a unique kind of brain injury that many people, including many doctors, don’t fully understand. Extreme stress, like the stress of a life-threatening vehicle collision, alters the brain’s chemical composition. This chemical imbalance causes symptoms like hypervigilance, depression,… Read More »
What You Should Know About Brain Injuries
Every year, more than one million Americans receive treatment at hospital emergency rooms for brain injuries, mostly sTBIs (severe traumatic brain injuries). “Trauma” is a bit deceptive as, in most cases, a blow to the head doesn’t cause a TBI. Instead, the extreme motion of a fall, car crash, or other such incident causes… Read More »
The Five Kinds of PTSD
“Disorder” is a lightning rod word. Many people believe this D-word simply shifts responsibility for an unfavorable personality trait (e.g. it’s not your fault you have a bad temper; instead, you have IED (intermittent explosive disorder)). That may be true in a few cases. But that’s certainly not true regarding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…. Read More »
