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Cerebral Palsy Settlement – Possible Financial Assistance For Your Cerebral Palsy Child

Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affects the person’s muscle tone, body movement, and motor skills. This condition is usually caused by brain damage that occurs before, during, and after child birth – during the first 3 to 5 years of a child’s life. The disorder is non-progressive and non-curable; but with special [...]

What Causes Cerebral Palsy and When Is It Due to a Medical Error

What is Cerebral Palsy?
The term cerebral palsy refers to any one of a number of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination but do not worsen over time. Even though cerebral palsy affects muscle movement, it is not caused by problems in the muscles or nerves.  [...]

How to Avoid Severe Brain Injury

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]

How to Avoid Severe Brain Injury

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]

Brain Injuries and Lack of Empathy

Damage to the frontal lobe can affect feelings of not only empathy but also of lack of compassion.  And in most cases there are few feelings of guilt as a result of their behavior.  This deficit can alter decisions that most likely would have been handled very differently pre-injury.
My partner often displays these deficits - [...]