Representing People With Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
People throughout California trust the attorneys of Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP, to represent them in complex claims involving serious injuries. We have a reputation for getting results in even the most challenging brain and spine injury cases. To learn more about this area of our practice, please visit the following pages:
- Traumatic brain injury: Learn about the symptoms and surprising prevalence of serious brain injury.
- Diagnosing brain injury: Brain injuries can be difficult to diagnose and treat. The people who know the patient best are often the ones who notice that something isn't right.
- Causes of brain injury: Traumatic brain injuries are often caused by auto accidents, falls, sports injuries and violence. Learn more about how the brain becomes injured.
- Personality changes: Changes in mood and behavior are common in people with brain damage caused by head injury, who may become easily frustrated, angry or emotional.
- Memory loss: People with brain injuries can have difficulty with both short-term and long-term memory loss.
- Who treats brain injuries? If you have suffered a brain injury, you may require specialized testing and treatment from neurologists, psychologists, physical and speech therapists, and others.
- Brain injury rehabilitation: Rehabilitation that is targeted to addressing specific deficits is shown to have a higher likelihood of success.
- Spinal cord injury: Learn about this devastating injury that can cause permanent disability and turn lives inside out.
- Causes of spinal cord injury: From traffic accidents to sporting injuries to falls, the true cause of many spinal cord injuries is negligence.
- Paralysis: Some spinal cord injuries are temporary while others result in permanent paralysis from the site of the injury down.
- Spinal cord rehabilitation: The goal is to help people with spinal cord injuries live as independently as possible.
- Life care planning: We sometimes retain certified life care planners to identify the services you will need as well as economists to project the lifetime costs of injury-related damages.
- Vocational rehabilitation: They may not be able to return to their former career, but with the right assistance and training, people with brain or spinal cord injuries may be able to go back to work in a different field.
Our lawyers represent people who sustained brain and spinal cord injuries in accidents caused by negligence in Los Angeles, throughout Southern California, California and across the United States. To discuss your case, please contact our office in Santa Monica.