A traumatic brain injury can upend your life and make even the simplest of daily tasks difficult, if not impossible. These injuries oftentimes include physical, emotional, and psychological consequences, all of which can leave you or your loved one utterly devastated....
Traumatic brain injuries can be sustained through many different types of personal injury accidents. Raleigh residents may suffer significant harm to their heads and brains when they are involved in motor vehicle accidents and workplace incidents. Though some injuries...
Perhaps one of the most devastating injuries a person in Raleigh can suffer in a car accident is a spinal cord injury. In fact, the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center reports that each year 12,500 individuals survive spinal cord injuries, and 38% of these...
A motor vehicle accident can be life-changing. For many victims, a car accident leaves them with serious injuries that are difficult to recover from, and the recovery process can be quite extended. This is especially true for those who have ended up with a disability...
Bailey Rhodes, 21, is lucky to be alive. The 21-year-old truck driver came home for Christmas after spending a month at WakeMed for extensive surgeries due to catastrophic injuries suffered when he was hit by a speeding car. Rhodes was unloading cars from his...
Spinal cord injuries are some of the most devastating injuries a person in North Carolina could suffer in a car crash. There are four main types of spinal cord injuries that could affect different areas of a person’s body. The following is a brief overview of these...
The human brain is responsible for both executive and lower level functions throughout the body. When a person injures an arm or other extremity, the affected limb may suffer a loss of function but the brain continues to work. However, when a North Carolina resident...
It was the early morning when you attempted to cross a street in a crosswalk and were hit by a passing truck. You're fortunate to be alive, but you've suffered some life-changing injuries that will take many years to recover from. In your mind, you want the driver to...
A North Carolina mental hospital has been fined $15,300 for failing to protect its employees from violent patients. The government-run Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro experienced at least eight employee injuries this year. The employees were injured in patient attacks or...
Awareness of the dangerous effect of brain injuries is finally starting to build. This is reflected in the results of a report released yesterday on the number of children being treated for traumatic brain injuries in emergency rooms. The Centers for Disease Control...
