Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyers

Babies and Brain Injuries

Traumatic brain injury is very serious. It occurs when a person’s head is hit by something or hits something. As a consequence of the force, the brain itself hits the inside wall of the skull and gets damaged. Depending on the strength of the force, the brain injury can be serious or minimal.

Because traumatic brain injury results from a hit to the skull, babies are especially vulnerable to traumatic brain injury. Babies are weak in every imaginable way, and that includes their skulls as well. Their skulls are thin compared to adult skulls. As a result, even a force that may not affect an adult might very well penetrate a baby’s skull and cause severe brain injury.

Babies can suffer traumatic brain injury in so many ways. If someone is carrying a baby and the baby’s head accidently hits something, the baby might suffer traumatic brain injury. Or, dropping a baby is an obvious way that a baby’s brain might suffer damage.

Additionally, one way that might injure a baby’s brain but not an adult’s brain is through shaking. Because babies are so light, shaking affects their bodies more. Vigorous, rash, and rapid movements back and forth jerk the baby’s brain, which is light and easily moved. As a result, the brain of a baby is more likely to hit the inside walls of its skull and thus get injured.

Contact a Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer

Babies should never suffer traumatic brain injuries, let alone any types of injury. If your baby has suffered traumatic brain injury contact the traumatic brain injury lawyers of William Kherkher by calling 1-800-220-9341.