Coup and Contrecoup Brain Injuries
Football season is in full swing, but football means more than jerseys, tailgates, and cheering for the winning team. For some, football, and the injuries from…
Head & Brain Injuries
Traumatic Brain Injuries Increase Risk of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia today. And new studies are now linking traumatic brain injury to greatly increased risk of Alzheimer’s. Dementia, an...
Another Severe Pedestrian Hit-and-Run in San Francisco
While it was a Happy New Year for many people in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is not the case for the family of yet another pedestrian who was the victim of a pedestrian hit-and-run on...
Bicyclist Injured in San Francisco Panhandle: Hit-and-Run by Black Truck
Back in July, I was about to blog on this story but went out of town for a lawyers conference and couldn’t get the blog out. So now the story is not current, but I stopped for a second and...
Preventing Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: the CDC Presents Data
The silent epidemic, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), creeps up on people because the problems that arise from TBI are sometimes unrecognizable. The mild version, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI),...
Suspects Arrested in Two Salinas Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accidents: What Can the Families Do?
Is there an epidemic of hit-and-run pedestrian accidents in Monterey County? On Sunday, May 27th police arrested not one but two hit-and-run suspects in Salinas, causing severe personal injuries...
Left Turn by PG&E Truck in Mission District Causes Severe Injuries to Bicyclist
Bike to Work Day should have been a great day for all San Francisco Bay Area cyclists, however it was a very bad day for one 27-year-old cyclist who was struck by a PG&E truck as the truck...
San Francisco General Hospital Gains Certification for Traumatic Brain Injury
San Francisco General Hospital is proud to become the first brain trauma treatment center in the U.S.A. to receive a certification for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a recognition...
Brain Injury News: New SPECT Brain Scans Can Assist in Diagnosing How Explosions Affect the Brain
The U.S. Army has been using a new brain imaging procedure in order to evaluate patients with traumatic brain injuries (a.k.a. TBI). It is a brain scan commonly used to study dementia to find...
Mission District Hit-and-Run Caused Fatality For San Francisco Pedestrian
Another pedestrian has been killed on Saturday in a San Francisco hit-and-run fatality when a minivan hit a 40-50-year-old man. The pedestrian was left on the street suffering from severe trauma and...