Sentences with phrase «involving head injuries»

Not to defend this guy too much, but he was hit by a car in an accident that involved a head injury in 2004, and then recently had a stroke — and he's 80s years old.

If there is ever a situation where your child needs medical attention (especially when it involves a head injury) and even more so when you are not familiar with the area, pull over and call 911.

Linda Monaci & Flora Wood examine the approach to applying malingering diagnostic criteria in cases involving head injury

nearly three - quarters of fatal bicycle accidents result from head injury and nearly two - thirds of bicycle injuries treated in emergency rooms involve head injuries.

My medico - legal (ML) practice is very varied, from neck and back personal injury cases, to catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury cases, negligence work and criminal murder cases involving head injury.

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Because incorrect head and neck positioning increases the likelihood of injury, the best prevention involves knowing and practicing proper strengthening and conditioning techniques.

As a rule of thumb, the most significant factor in preventing traumatic and potentially catastrophic spinal cord injuries involves «seeing what you hit» and «keeping your head up.»

It requires an athletic coach, official involved in a youth athletic activity, or health care provider to remove a person from the activity if the coach, official or health care provider determines that the person exhibits signs, symptoms, or behavior consistent with a concussion or head injury, or they suspect a concussion or head injury.

It is the responsibility of staff members involved in school activities and trained in the signs and symptoms related to concussion or other head injury, to act in accordance with this policy when the staff member recognizes that a student may be exhibiting such signs and symptoms of a concussion.

These deaths have been almost exclusively in older teens and young adults and involve falls and head injuries.

These incidences involve everything from lacerations to head injuries to drowning.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Awareness campaigns like that of STOP Sports Injuries and the CDC's Heads Up program are doing great work to educate the parents and coaches involved in youth sports about how to prevent and identify iInjuries and the CDC's Heads Up program are doing great work to educate the parents and coaches involved in youth sports about how to prevent and identify injuriesinjuries.

Baby walkers have become a somewhat notorious product as for example they have been reported in this study that they are responsible for an estimated 8800 injuries in infants younger than 15 months in the year 1999 and mostly this is due to falls involving stairs and resulting in head injuries.

Internal head injuries may involve the skull, blood vessels, or brain.

Of course parents must intervene when safety is involved or when injury may occur as with head - banging.

Falls are the top cause of nonfatal injuries among kids, and are most likely to be lethal when they involve head trauma.

Marino, 52, who was the highest - profile former player involved in legal action against the league over head injuries, said in a statement issued to Sports Illustrated magazine that in the past year he authorized a legal claim to be made on his behalf if he ever needed medical coverage due to the long - term effects of football - related head trauma.

In any abusive head trauma case, the duration and force of the shaking, the number of episodes, and whether impact is involved all affect the severity of the child's injuries.

(FROM DAILY VOICE) A chain - reaction head - on crash involving four vehicles resulted in several injuries Sundayafternoon in Montebello.It occurred around 1:50 p.m., on Haverstraw Road (Route 202) west of Mayer Drive, said Ramapo police.

However, plastic surgeons were also involved in cases involving injuries to other body areas, including the head and neck, the face and eyes, and the trunk.

Although this warning applies especially to athletes involved in collision and contact sports (such as football, boxing, hockey, or soccer), excess weight may even increase the risk of cognitive problems in people who have suffered one - off head injuries in car accidents or other non-athletic situations, Amen says.

This last week was pretty draining since I had to work in the field with clients (I often work with closed head and spinal cord injury clients that were involved in motor vehicle accidents) and I didn't get as much time as I wanted with my family.

Unfortunately, after a near fatal head injury, Brady must now grow accustomed to an existence that doesn't involve proving himself on these wild stallions, but instead training them through a gentle connection he shares with the animals through years of experience.

On April 13, 2013, Galindo, a commercial driver's license (CDL) holder, was operating a tractor - trailer on U.S. 90 near San Antonio, Texas, on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle was involved in a head - on collision with an SUV, resulting in four fatalities and one serious injury.

If you find that your vehicle is involved in the recall, you should know two things: one, Chrysler Group is not currently aware of and injuries or complaints related to the issue, which is that the head restraints may exceed the gap between a passenger's head and the restraint that is allowable by today's safety standards.

Looking at crashes involving claims of $ 2,000 or more, analysts found 16 percent fewer insurance claims were filed for neck injuries among females in vehicles with good - rated seats / head restraints compared with people in vehicles with poor seats / head restraints.

Now some new designs of seats and head restraints are reducing neck injuries among car occupants involved in rear - end crashes.

It involves the loss of memory of anything that occurred before the event that triggered the amnesia, and often occurs after a head injury.

This new website explains the types of accidents that cyclists may be involved with (doorings, hit - and - runs, collisions and others) and the injuries that can arise (head injuries, back and neck injuries, fractures, and even wrongful death).

Often suffered through car accidents or slip and fall accidents, traumatic brain injury (TBI) involves any kind of trauma to the head.

Accidents involving pedestrians regularly cause bodily injuries to the neck area, including the head and spinal cord.

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When a person is involved in an auto accident or pedestrian accident, he may suffer from a serious injury, such as a brain injury or other traumatic head injury.

Of importance to all regulators, the tribunal noted, in addressing injury to dignity (and in awarding $ 25,000 under this head of loss), the complainant was in an «extremely vulnerable position,» given that events were taking place at the very outset of his career, and involved interactions with his professional governing body, leading to «a significant power imbalance at play.»

An open head injury involves a skull fracture after a fall or collision, or an object penetrating the skull, such as a bullet or falling debris.

Brain injuries in motorcycle accidents can involve severe trauma if the rider's head makes hard contact with the other driver's vehicle or the road.

Brain Injuries — We handle any accident involving serious injury to the head or spinal cord resulting in partial or total paralysis, coma or death.

A closed head injury occurs when a blow to the head causes the brain to bang against the skull, often involving swelling in the brain or blood clots.

The Tampa head injury lawyers at Dennis Hernandez & Associates, PA are in the business of helping those individuals who have suffered injuries involving the head and brain resulting from devastating and preventable events.

Many staff members are on flexible working arrangements involving a mish - mash of hours and days including my own supervisor who is the head of our Australian personal injuries practice.

This is especially true in cases involving head and brain injuries.

December 10, 2013 — Charles Hoffman, 71, of Easthampton, Massachusetts has died as the result of serious personal injuries sustained when his pickup was involved in a head car crash with a van driven by Mauricio Velasquez, 32, of Springfield.

The injured inmate suffered a serious head injury and as a result underwent a craniotomy (a procedure involving removing part of the bone from the skull to expose the brain).

Head injury is the leading cause of death in motorcycle accidents, with 74 % of fatalities involving a traumatic brain injury

But motorcyclists involved in accidents in Florida are uniquely susceptible to several especially devastating injuries involving the head and spine.

Head and brain injury cases generally involve injuries to you or your loved one that will have a potentially horrendous impact on you, them and your whole family.

However, any accident that involves a sudden impact to the head can result in a brain injury.

Left turn accidents at intersections often result in serious, if not fatal injuries, because they typically involve head - on collisions or side - impact collisions.

This is especially true when dealing with serious personal injury cases involving head trauma or paralysis.