Daniel Rodriguez

We will continue with the second part of the opening statement which primarily covers TBI damages. We will cover how to show the jurors what the brain is made up, how the brain cells are different from all the other cells in our body, how they are interconnected and how the brain functions. All of this in plain English. How do we do this? By putting the jurors in the middle of the brain in the courtroom. By doing so, we can bring to life typical deficits such as impaired vision (e.g., convergence) and show that this impairment is not the result of injury to the eyeball or optic nerve, but rather to the brain’s ability to process the visual input.

Another typical deficit resulting from brain trauma is hearing impairment such as tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Again, like the vision impairment, it’s not because of injury to the outer ear and inner ear, but rather to the brain’s ability to process the auditory information being delivered to it. We’ll also cover other typical brain impairments caused by trauma to the brain. And we’ll also go over how much force it takes to injury the brain, do you need direct trauma to the skull or can such injury be caused by whiplash (sudden acceleration or deceleration)?