Even if a collision with a tractor-trailer has not resulted in broken bones or soft-tissue damage, you may still have suffered serious harm that is not visible and may not have obvious symptoms at first. Just being thrown forward against your seatbelt has the potential to cause a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and more forceful impacts to the head, neck, or face can cause significantly more severe trauma.

If you sustained catastrophic brain trauma in a traffic collision caused by a truck driver or trucking company’s negligence, our truck injury attorneys can help you explore your options for financial recovery. At The Law Firm for Truck Safety we focus exclusively on truck accident litigation, so you can trust that every Casper traumatic brain injury lawyer on our team will have the experience needed to effectively protect your best interests during settlement talks and, if necessary, a lawsuit in civil court.

What Types of Brain Injuries Can Truck Crashes Cause?

Because the human brain is so immensely complex, different types of traumatic brain injuries can have very different effects and require very different types of treatment. For example, a penetrating brain injury caused by an external object penetrating the skull and directly damaging the brain may require immediate surgery to remove foreign objects, repair torn blood vessels, and close the external wound.

Closed-head brain injuries, on the other hand, often do not produce any obvious external signs of trauma at all, since they typically stem from the brain bouncing off the interior of the skull without the skull itself being breached or broken in any way. Other common types of TBIs that truck wrecks may cause include:

• Hematomas, hemorrhages, and other types of bleeding on either the outer surface of the brain or within the brain itself
• Coup-contrecoup injuries, which involve the brain being bruised on two sides from being jarred back and forth within the skill
• Diffuse axonal injuries, which involve nerve connections between brain cells being twisted or torn
• Secondary brain injuries like hypoxia, ischemia, and cerebral edema, which are knock-on effects of TBIs like the ones mentioned above

A Casper traumatic brain injury attorney can help ensure you get the care you need for your specific injury and then hold the right people accountable for causing that injury in the first place.

Diagnosing and Treating Traumatic Brain Damage

Thanks to numerous advancements in medical science and technology, modern medical professionals have access to numerous diagnostic tools which can help them identify exactly what type of TBI a patient has suffered. This of course includes well-established techniques like computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

However, your healthcare providers may also use more cutting-edge options like diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) designed to identify microscopic injuries to brain tissue and nerve connections, functional MRI (fMRI which more specifically focuses on changes in normal brain activity, and quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) which can be used to analyze and identify problems with the brain’s electrical activity and brain wave patterns. Support from a Casper TBI attorney can be key not just to getting the medical care you need, but also to ensuring that insurance reps and/or civil court jury members understand the information produced by these new types of testing.

What To Do After Suffering a Truck Crash Head Injury

It is always essential to have a medical professional examine you after being involved in any kind of traffic collision. However, if you suspect you may have suffered any type of head trauma in a commercial truck wreck, going to a hospital emergency room or urgent care clinic directly from the crash scene could potentially be a matter of life and death, since some life-threatening brain injuries do not produce obvious symptoms until it is too late for doctors to prevent catastrophic harm.

If possible, you should also write down any details you can remember about how the crash happened, any identifying information you can recall about the truck and truck driver involved, and contact details of people who witnessed the crash as it occurred. These could all serve as vital evidence for one of our Casper TBI attorneys to establish that a specific negligent act by a truck driver was the main and direct cause of your injuries.

What Damages Are Available Through a Truck Wreck TBI Lawsuit?

Since TBIs can sometimes have irreversible and debilitating effects, it can be particularly important to account for long-term losses, as well as short-term ones, when seeking civil restitution. In practice, this can mean proactively seeking compensation for:

• Costs of emergency medical care and long-term rehabilitative treatments
• Costs of mobility aids, home modifications, and other forms of disability management
• Lost working and earning capacity
• Physical pain and discomfort
• Psychological trauma and suffering
• Lost quality of life

A traumatic brain injury lawyer from our Casper office can help with identifying and accurately valuing your losses within the filing time limits set by Wyoming’s statute of limitationsThe time limit within which a lawsuit must be filed. for personal injuryLegal term for an injury to the body, mind, or psyche, as opposed to an injury to property. claims.

Reach Out to a TBI Attorney in Casper Today

Any collision between a passenger car and a fully loaded semi-truck has the potential to cause life-altering and potentially life-threatening injuries to everyone inside the smaller vehicle. Even by those standards, traumatic brain damage can be uniquely dangerous and debilitating—not to mention, deceptively hard to build a strong civil lawsuit or settlement demand around.

Working closely with an experienced Casper traumatic brain injury lawyer will contribute to ensuring your pursuit of fair financial restitution goes as smoothly and successfully as possible. Call us today to find out how The Law Firm for Truck Safety can help you reclaim your life.