Southern California head trauma lawyers on occipital lobe brain injuries

When you strike your head and suffer a traumatic brain injury in a Southern California accident, the part of your brain that is injured makes a huge difference in the medical problems that you may suffer.

In our previous blogs, we discussed the problems that can stem from traumas to the different parts of the brain, including the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. Since each part of the brain controls different body functions, unfortunately, a traumatic brain injury victim can expect a wide array of issues.

Let’s take a look at the occipital lobe of the brain, which is located at the back of the head. Many times this portion of the skull is injured if you are struck from behind or if you fall on your back and hit your head on a hard surface, such as pavement. The primary function of the occipital lobe is vision, and it controls virtually every aspect of your sight.

As Los Angeles traumatic brain injury lawyers who specialize in helping head trauma victims, we most often see back-of-the-head injuries after these types of accidents:

- Pedestrians being struck by vehicles

- Workers who fall from heights, landing on their backs

- Bicyclists being run over on the road

- Motorcycle crashes

- Assault

- Defective steps or railings, causing victims to slip and fall

Since the occipital lobe is so important to vision function, according to the Center for Neuro Skills, damage to the lobe can cause many problems, including:

- Hallucinations

- Incorrectly seeing objects

- Difficulty seeing moving things

- Inability to recognize written words

- Having a hard time locating objects in an environment

These can be pretty scary problems to deal with, especially on top of the pain and suffering of the accident itself. Even scarier is not knowing how to handle the injury claim.

If you have a loved one who has suffered a traumatic brain injury due to an accident, let an experienced Los Angeles brain injury lawyer teach you how to protect your family’s rights. Call Steinberg and Spencer to order your free copy of their book 7 BIGGEST MISTAKES That Can Ruin Your California Injury Case by calling 800.350.8888 or by clicking here to fill out their online form for your free case evaluation.

February 27, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Types of Brain Injury

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