When you think of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the image that might pop into your head may be of a soldier suffering the effects of an explosion, or maybe of an athlete like a football player who collides with another player at high speed,…
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 football can mean a lifetime of pain or disability, or even death. That’s why I think it’s important to continue…
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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 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...
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...
