Brain Injury Blog

Traumatic brain injury is typically associated with severe head trauma, coma, and hospitalization for weeks or months. Researchers have found that traumatic brain injury, we call it mTBI for short, can occur even with minimal brain injuries. There are many symptoms of cognitive dysfunction, including fuzziness (brain fog), lack of concentration, etc. Mild-to-moderate traumatic brain…

Every year March is the month for observing Brain Injury Awareness according to the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). The current campaign by BIAA is called ‘More Than My Brain Injury’, which spreads awareness and promotes people with brain injury to experience life beyond their injuries. We at the Law Office of David Dwork…

Brain injuries are among the most severe type of injuries anyone can have. When it comes to the brain, even minor injuries can result in physical and physiological effects.  But, there’s a difference between a brain injury and a traumatic brain injury (TBI). When someone has a traumatic brain injury in Boston, it’s likely the…

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause severe physical and mental symptoms, such as memory loss and behavioral changes. TBIs can be hard to recognize and diagnose and symptoms can range from mild to severe. However, approximately 75% of TBIs reported each year are mild. Common causes of TBI in adults are falls and vehicular…

While people enjoy contact sports each day all across America, there always lurks the threat of injury, often in the form of a brain injury or a concussion. There are approximately 1.6-3.8 million sports and recreation-related head injuries, and concussions reported each year in the United States. Organized sports such as football, boxing, or hockey…

Keep Your Heads Up Before and After the Holidays The Law Office of David Dwork puts a spotlight on the CDC information program As a law practice that has concentrated on traumatic brain injury litigation for more than 30 years, it is important to us that more attention and education occurs on behalf of the…

Almost exactly one year ago, The Lancet, Public Health published an article entitled “Traumatic brain injury and homelessness: from prevalence to prevention,” looking at the growing public health concern of homelessness and its relationship to traumatic brain injury. With everything going on in the world during 2020, the Law Office of David Dwork felt some…

Over 30 + Years of Experience The Law Office of David Dwork has 30+ years of experience dealing with a variety of legal issues relating to personal injury and has specialized in representing head injury victims and survivors and the families of those in need of a traumatic brain injury lawyer. Centrally located in Boston,…

Are Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury More Susceptible to the Harmful Physiological Effects of COVID-19? The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak took the world’s interconnected public health communities by storm. No agency was properly equipped to deal with an outbreak of a virus that virtually no one knew anything about. As the pandemic has continued, more and…

Football, Boxing, Cycling, Hockey, Soccer, Cheerleading…What do These Sports Have in Common? Putting these six sports, and many more, into a group might raise some eyebrows, but they have something in common most people would not think of…before you guess, lets add to that list: Horseback riding, Snow Skiing/Snowboarding, Water Sports, Powered Recreational Vehicles, Skateboards/Scooters,…