Utah Brain Injury Attorneys
Salt Lake City Head Injury Lawyers
The attorneys at Eisenberg, Gilchrist & Morton have been representing victims of traumatic brain injury for years. Our team of committed lawyers represents persons who have experienced a traumatic brain injury, head injury, serious brain injury, and the resulting personal loss, economic loss and future compensations due to negligence.
The brain is tremendously complex and a delicate organ allowing us to breathe, move, communicate, process information and display emotions. A traumatic brain injury involves an unexpected force to the head, such as a blow, the head hitting an object, or an object causing penetration to the skull and making contact with the brain. The result is serious and often irreparable damage to the brain. Unlike other injuries, serious brain injuries display no obvious physical wound. A brain injury might reveal itself immediately or take several weeks to appear.
Several symptoms of traumatic head injuries include:
- Loss of reasoning abilities
- Loss of memory
- Loss of voluntary and involuntary motor functions
- Sensory loss
- Paralysis
Motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents contribute to a majority of brain injuries. Additional occurrences of head injuries stem from construction site accidents, falls, swimming or diving accidents and physical exchanges. Those most likely to suffer accidents causing brain injury are young men between 15 and 24 years of age and the elderly.
Suffering a brain injury usually leads to life long changes and impairments. Serious consequences that can result from a brain injury, include:
- Communication difficulties
- Speech impairment
- Perception difficulties
- Memory problems
- Difficulty concentrating
- Mood changes
- Depression
- Spastic muscles
- Seizures
- Paralysis
Surgical procedures are often compulsory in alleviating some of the excess blood that has gathered near the brain. A patient may require specific treatments and specialists including a physical therapist, psychiatrist, psychologist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist, several regimens of medication, and an array of rehabilitation services.
The expenses related to the brain injury include loss of wages, loss of enjoyment, pain and suffering, and other accident-related costs that can easily reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. You need the representation of an experienced brain injury lawyer ready to fight for compensation required to cover these current and future expenses. If you or a loved one has suffered a brain injury as the result of an accident in the Salt Lake City Area please contact a Utah traumatic brain injury lawyer at Eisenberg, Gilchrist & Morton today.
