Your Personal Injury Attorney in Tampa Bay for Traumatic Brain Injury in Car Accidents

People who have suffered from a traumatic brain injury in a car accident may feel as if life will never be the same. After a traumatic brain injury, or TBI, you may look fine on the outside, but on the inside, you may be unable to function as you used to. You may not remember how to do your job or what hobbies you enjoyed. From hour to hour, you may forget the people you've spoken to and what was said. In some cases, traumatic brain injury can affect your ability to speak, making you forget words or unable to communicate coherently. In other cases, traumatic brain injury can permanently change your personality. Amazingly, all of these changes can take place without a visible head injury.

As a personal injury attorney in the Tampa Bay area, Dale Appell, P.A. has had many years of experience working with people who have sustained traumatic brain injuries in car accidents. These cases often require the assistance of a personal injury attorney who has the resources and skill to explain a traumatic brain injury to the courtroom. Oftentimes in cases of traumatic brain injury, a personal injury attorney must bring into court doctors and other experts who can explain to the jury how a patient may have no visible injuries from the car accident and yet still be permanently disabled with significant medical bills and the need for an expensive life care plan.

As an example, here's how a traumatic brain injury may occur without any blow to the head. Let's say you're driving your car about 45 miles an hour on Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa and get into a head-on collision. Even if you are wearing your seatbelt, your head will be thrown forward and back. As your brain jostles inside the bony skull, soft brain tissue is torn and bruised. Nerves are damaged and blood vessels tear. If there's bleeding in the brain, further nerve damage is caused by increased pressure inside the skull. While a scan may not be able to show the microscopic injuries on millions of nerve cells, you are left with memory loss, frustration, speech problems, and more. Some or all of this damage may be permanent.

Traumatic brain injury in car accidents can also result from other traumas to the brain such as:

• A physical blow to the head
• An object piercing the skull
• Blood loss
• Oxygen loss

For the traumatic brain injury patient, symptoms can continue for months, years, or a lifetime. In addition to memory and personality changes, victims may also experience headaches, vision loss, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and much more. An experienced, aggressive personal injury attorney in Tampa Bay like Dale Appell can fight for your right to be reimbursed for medical care, lost wages, permanent disability, lost ability to work, pain, and suffering.

Contact personal injury attorney Dale Appell today for a free consultation about your car accident and traumatic brain injury case. Our Tampa Bay offices serve victims throughout the area from Tampa to Clearwater and St Petersburg to Pasco County. We also serve clients in Carrollwood, Temple Terrace, Brandon, Oldsmar, Dade City, Pinellas Park, Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor, Port Richey, and Hudson.