The Mission personal injury attorneys at the Osiris A. Gonzalez Law Firm have extensive knowledge and background experience representing victims of traumatic brain injury (TBI). They’re also well-known throughout Mission for their meticulous preparation and attention to detail. They pride themselves in the work they’ve done for their clients who have suffered such life-altering injuries.

More than a million Americans experience an injury to the brain each year, whether a TBI, closed head injury, skull fracture, depressed skull injury, or brain bleed, and 80,000 people have long-term disabilities as a result of their injury.

Brain trauma is usually the result of a direct blow to the head, which can bruise the brain and damage its internal tissues and blood vessels. The severity of a head or an injury to the brain can range from a mild concussion to a severe injury that results in coma or even death. In a closed head or brain injury, there is no break in the skull and the brain is jarred against the sides of the skull, shearing (or tearing) the internal lining, nerves, tissues, and blood vessels, causing bleeding, bruising, or swelling. These types of injuries are often classified as subdural hematomas, sub-arachnoid bleeds and epidural bleeds. In a penetrating or open head injury, the skull is broken.

The sudden and profound injury the brain sustains at the time of the accident is called the primary brain injury. It can be followed by secondary injury sustained to the brain, a cascade of cellular, chemical, tissue, or blood vessel changes that evolve in the hours to days after the accident. These changes can further destroy brain tissue.