Child/Infant Brain Injury
San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles · San Diego
Young children are the most susceptible victims of TBI. Injuries result from tripping and falling around the home, being shaken, or mistakes during delivery or prenatal care. For children, each year, TBI causes 3,000 deaths, 29,000 hospital visits, and 400,000 emergency room visits.
Young survivors of moderate to severe TBI must often bear lifelong disabilities and its associated dependence on others for survival. Studies show that limitations in skills as simple as bathing, dressing, and walking are quite common among children who have suffered severe TBI. In particularly bad TBI cases, where a child has four different functional deficits, as many as 75% of such children cannot even feed themselves, and suffer from cognition and behavior impairments.
The Walkup cerebral palsy and birth injury lawyers have represented the victims of obstetric negligence since 1959. We understand the special needs of infants who have suffered brain damage because of mis-managed labor and delivery. Our attorneys work with pediatric neurologists, intensivists, rehabilitation specialists and life care planning experts to protect young children with pediatric brain damage by establishing special needs trusts to preserve government benefit eligibility. If your child suffers from a brain injury caused by the fault of another, call us at 888.732.8897.
