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July 2020

Traumatic Brain Injuries

By David Kulwicki|2023-07-20T18:28:13+00:00July 24th, 2020|Brain Injury|

Brain Injury Lawyer Cleveland Ohio Neurocognitive deficits caused by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) remain one of the most challenging injuries to prove by personal injury lawyers.  Often, mild TBIs are not diagnosed by emergency personnel, who are more focused on more obvious injuries.  PCPs may miss the diagnosis on followup unless the patient complains [...]

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February 2019

2019 Traumatic Brain Injury Update

By David Kulwicki|2020-05-03T22:51:23+00:00February 14th, 2019|Brain Injury|

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) continues to be a leading cause of disability in the U.S.  Historically, this condition has been overlooked by the medical profession.  As a result, there has been little research on the subject and no real medical breakthroughs in treatment.  As a brain injury lawyer, I face two heartbreaking consequences of this [...]

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August 2018

Developments in the Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

By David Kulwicki|2022-02-17T23:10:24+00:00August 20th, 2018|Brain Injury|

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases can be extremely challenging due to the lack of objective testing to prove the existence of common types of brain damage.  Brain damage is often microscopic such that it can only be shown by a pathologist on autopsy, particularly in cases of mild TBI.  Nonetheless, mild TBI can have a [...]

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Proving ALL of the Damages Caused by Brain Injury

By David Kulwicki|2020-05-03T22:46:44+00:00August 17th, 2018|Brain Injury|

As an Ohio brain injury lawyer, I routinely review medical journals for information about traumatic brain injury (TBI).  Two recent medical journal articles address the damages caused by brain injury.  To an attorney, the term “damages” refers to the harms and losses caused by personal injury or wrongful death.  Damages include past harms and losses [...]

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October 2016

Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

By David Kulwicki|2020-05-03T22:38:14+00:00October 11th, 2016|Brain Injury|

Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is less common than milder forms of the injury, so it gets less attention in the medical literature and in the courtroom.  Because the physical signs of severe TBI are more concrete and more objective, it is more difficult for insurance companies and defense lawyers to attribute the symptoms of [...]

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March 2015

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month

By David Kulwicki|2022-02-17T23:11:20+00:00March 17th, 2015|Brain Injury|

As an experienced brain injury attorney, I would like to take time to recognize National Brain Injury Awareness Month.  It remains as daunting an area of law as ever.  The challenges that I face, together with my clients, seem to grow each year. I have been handling traumatic brain injury cases for about 20 years.  In [...]

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November 2014

Children and Brain Injury

By David Kulwicki|2020-05-03T22:07:51+00:00November 14th, 2014|Brain Injury|

Children frequently suffer a brain injury in conjunction with other injuries that occur in car accidents, falls, assaults and other types of trauma, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).  Brain damage in children who sustain head injuries can be subtle and therefore may go undiagnosed.  This recent NEJM [...]

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May 2014

Brain Injury From Wernicke’s After Gastric Bypass

By David Kulwicki|2019-04-24T18:00:04+00:00May 15th, 2014|Brain Injury|

Brain injury can occur due to Wernicke's encephalopathy, a condition caused by brain inflammation resulting from a thiamine deficiency.  Recently, I became aware of a spate of such cases affecting patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (weight loss surgery such as roux en y surgery, etc.).   Gastric bypass surgery creates a malabsorption syndrome that results in controlled malnutrition.  [...]

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September 2013

Brain Injury in Women Often Overlooked

By David Kulwicki|2019-04-24T18:00:03+00:00September 6th, 2013|Brain Injury|

Brain injury has been moved to the forefront of national news by virtue of the N.F.L.'s recent settlement with former players who have developed neurologic syndromes associated with head injuries and concussion.  While sports-related head injuries are getting much attention, it appears that another segment of the population is being neglected: women who sustain concussions. Discussion at [...]

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March 2013

Avoiding PML-Type Brain Injury in MS Patients

By David Kulwicki|2019-04-24T18:00:03+00:00March 13th, 2013|Brain Injury|

A type of brain injury, called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), can occur as a result of complications from use of Tysabri (natalizumab) by patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS). PML was first identified in immunocompromised patients, such as AIDS and cancer patients.  However, it can arise when Tysabri reactivates a dormant viral illness called JC Virus (also known [...]

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