According to a news report from the Waco Tribune, a young child identified as having special needs reportedly suffered a serious head injury, and local police suspect the injury may have occurred at his elementary school. The child is 8-years-old. The police first became aware of the incident when hospital…
Head injuries, including concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), are among the most serious types of personal injuries, other than wrongful death, that we typically see. The reasons are somewhat obvious when doctors consider a “minor” brain injury can have lifelong consequences for the victim. One of the things known…
Despite the growing base of knowledge doctors and researchers are building on the problem of head injuries and traumatic brain injury (TBI), there is still a lot we don’t know. For this reason, any new study that is being performed has the potential to include some major breakthroughs. Even if…
Winter in Boston and across the New England is notoriously hazardous – not just for those in cars, but for those on foot as well. Wet snow is trampled into building entryways and sidewalks are slick with ice. While a slip-and-fall injury can certainly happen at any time of the…
According to a recent report from CNN, a school bus driver deviated from his designated route and crashed the vehicle at a high rate of speed. In this horrific crash, six children have been killed and more than a dozen were injured. Some of these injuries were very serious, including possible…
As the weather gets colder, many people will be getting their equipment ready and heading to slopes for skiing and snowboarding this winter season. Many will go to the various ski resorts in Massachusetts and many more will head to the bigger mountains in Vermont and Maine and other parts…
Every year during the fall, people enjoy going to local pumpkin patches, and, in addition to getting pumpkins and apples, they like to watch pumpkins getting fired out of cannons. There are various different types of pumpkin launchers, but they are generally powered pneumatically (compressed air) or with some type…
Football is a tough game for anyone who puts on a uniform and heads out on the field each week. However, for decades, the public and National Football League (NFL) was willing to just consider that part of the game. In fact, it is nearly impossible to watch an entire…
While hunting is not an activity that occurs in Boston proper, there are plenty of areas in the Commonwealth where people do go hunting on a regular basis, as well as in the surrounding states of New England. Many of these area have professional hunting guides that advertise in Boston to…
We have heard a great deal about the dangers of head injuries, including concussions. For those who are not aware of what a concussion is, it is essentially a brain injury that occurs when the victim is hit in the head or even the victim of a whiplash type accident…