In Georgia, approximately 22% of traumatic brain injuries are caused by car accidents often involving trucks, motorcycles, bicycles or pedestrians. Between 2004 and 2007, there was a 29.5% increase in traumatic brain injury in Georgia alone. Traumatic brain injury, sometimes referred to as TBI, is the result of a head injury when there is a sudden impact to the brain. Most often in auto accidents, an individual will suffer a closed head injury which occurs when the head violently impacts an object yet the skull is not broken. Fortunately, those of us who live anywhere in the Atlanta area from Macon to Athens to Cumming to Douglasville have access to some of the best treatment for brain injuries in the southeast including the only level one trauma center within 100 miles of the metro Atlanta area at Grady Hospital.
The high level of research and study of brain injuries allows Atlantans to have access to cutting edge treatment. An Emory University Brain Research Laboratory professor was recently honored for his commitment to finding treatments and cures for brain injured patients. People 
come from all over the United States for further treatment and rehabilitation at the Shepherd Center which is a state of the art facility for brain injury and spinal cord injury patients.
Having lived through the type of treatment and care that goes into a family member having a brain injury, I know how important it is to have the latest techniques and medicines available. Once your loved one has survived the car accident and head injury, an enormous amount of your energy and resources will be tied to rehabilitation. My sister almost lost her life in an auto accident, and the reality of it is that she lost the life she had led due to her traumatic brain injury. Nothing can ever fully repair the brain damage that is suffered in a serious head injury.
Learn more:
Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission of Georgia
As drivers and passengers on highways in and around Atlanta, we are at risk every day of not only being involved in a car accident, but suffering a head injury. Learn more about the help that is available to you by clicking on the resources below and if you are in need of a law firm with a strong record of handling brain injury personal injury cases and the compassion that comes from having lived through it, please call us.
