The conventional belief is that children who have suffered a traumatic brain injury are much more likely to bounce back from the injury because their brains are still developing and more ‘elastic’ than adult brains. However, that might not be so true after all. According to new research by Australian scientists, children who have suffered [...]
New clinical trials that have just commenced at 5 hospitals in the U.K. will investigate the effect of the female sex hormone progesterone on persons with a traumatic brain injury. The trials are part of an international study into the use of the female sex hormone in the treatment of patients who have suffered a [...]
Treatment options for brain injury patients are extremely limited. In most cases, all that doctors can do to increase a patient’s chances of recovery is to limit the severity of the injury by beginning treatment as quickly as possible. For this, it is necessary that doctors diagnose the injury quickly. That diagnosis may speed up [...]
It’s being hailed by Los Angeles spinal cord injury lawyers as a dramatic breakthrough in the field of spinal cord injury treatment. A 25-year-old man who was left wheelchair-bound with a spinal cord injury after a car accident in 2006 has been able to stand on his own. The man, Rob Summers, was injured one [...]
California spinal cord injury lawyers are applauding an appeals court’s decision last week that allows federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. After close to a year of anxiety, an appeals court has held that federal funds can be used for stem cell research that destroys embryos. Such funding had been called into question by [...]
A new study indicates to California brain injury lawyers that the use of antidepressants, common after a brain injury because of the high risk of depression among these patients, may not only help treat these emotional problems, but also actually treat the brain injury itself. Depression is a frequent side effect of a traumatic brain [...]
A group of German researchers has conducted a study, which shows that the anticancer drug Taxol may help treat spinal cord injury too. The study on rats was conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of New Biology in Germany. Researchers found that Taxol, which is used widely to treat breast cancer, seems to [...]
Most Jennifer Grey fans, who applauded the star’s win on the season finale of Dancing with the Stars, are aware of her long and painful battle with spinal injury. It has probably made her win even more encouraging to victims and survivors of spinal cord injury. Grey was involved in a horrific accident back in [...]
TBI or Traumatic Brain Injury is a term commonly used when an individual receives a head injury. But, in reality, what injury to the brain would not be considered traumatic. The scary truth about brain injuries is that many are not detected right away and some go years before the cause and effect are put [...]