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Nashville car accidents, as well as Nashville motorcycle accidents and Nashville truck accidents are in the news daily. There is a “silent” injury in many of these accidents, traumatic brain injury.

A recent study published by the Department of Health and Human Services provides insight into how huge the problem of traumatic brain injury is.  More than 52,000 die each year from brain injury and almost a third are the result of a car accident, but often brain injuries are undiagnosed.

A traumatic brain injury can be caused by a bump or blow to the head that disrupts the normal function of the brain.

Traumatic brain injury  from a Tennessee car accident, motorcycle accident, or Tennessee tractor trailer accident can affect thinking, sensation, emotion, or language and is a contributor to over 30% of all injury related deaths.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Nashville , please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

Victims of Tennessee auto accidents, work injuries, motorcycle wrecks, and other trauma can experience shoulder injuries, including rotator cuff tears.

Rotator cuff tears can be surgically repaired arthroscopically, a much less invasive alternative than the typical “open” procedure. According to the American Journal of Sports Medicine arthroscopic surgery can reduce pain and improve function, but unexplainedly the procedure seems to have poorer results among women.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury or knee injury in Nashville  Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville Tennessee personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

People who have a Tennessee auto accident, motorcycle accident, or tractor trailer accident may experience a serious knee injury.

ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) surgery is a common, serious procedure for knee injuries that occur in Tennessee due to auto accidents and other trauma.

Research however shows that recovery from ACL injury is more difficult for certain groups. Young people and women seem to be more susceptible to re-injury and additional surgery after having ACL reconstruction according to Orthopedics Today.

The alternative? Young patients and women should be careful during their rehabilitation, and hold off on a return to athletic activities that could cause re-injury.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Nashville Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville  Tennessee personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

Blows to the head from a Tennessee car accident are not uncommon. They are also very common in motorcycle accidents, and collisions involving tractor-trailers.

Most of the time people “shake it off” and go on with their lives. We now have the example of the NFL on the importance of taking head injuries very seriously.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Nashville ( or Tennessee), please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Tennessee personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

Seatbelts make a difference in reducing personal injury in auto accidents. Although seatbelts have been required safety equipment in passenger cars since the 70’s, there is no such requirement for buses. Does it make sense that school buses in Tennessee or anywhere else should be operated without this kind of basic safety equipment? There have been arguments over the years that the rigid, closely spaced seating in school buses provides adequate protection and makes seatbelts unnecessary. School bus accidents are very serious events. Rigid closely placed seats do not protect students from lateral “t-bone” collisions (where they are knocked out of their seats) or from rear-end or rollover collisions. Rollover collisions are especially dangerous to school children who have nothing to keep them in their seats once the bus begins to roll. Finally, the Federal Department of Transportation is considering a requirement of seatbelts in buses, see their plan here.  The National Coalition for School Bus Safety has been adovcating for this for years. For more information from the National Coalition on School Bus Safety, click here. If seat belts reduce personal injury in auto accidents, don’t we want the same for our kids?

Car accidents that are head on create a different risk for those involved. A  7 year study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that despite the use of airbags and seat belts, deaths from head on or frontal collisions continue. Head-on crashes have always been very dangerous collisions, but the presence of airbags was expected to almost eliminate the risk of death from these kind of car accidents. The study shows that among other things the size of the occupant may determine how effective an airbag and seat belt system will be in preventing death from a head-on or front collision. Too big or too small and the airbag may not protect you. If the angle of impact is not completely head-on the airbag may not protect you. If the impact is very severe, the airbag may not protect you. Will this study bring about changes in airbag design? Unlikely in my opinion – at least anytime soon, the American auto industry has too much going on and safety improvements are unlikely to be part of their agenda (profits will be). The lesson is for drivers everywhere to not put too much faith in the “safety technology” in their cars. A front end collision in Nashville or anywhere else can result in serious injury even in a car with all the latest safety equipment. To review this study and other information about your rights go to our website, or click here for the details of this NHTSA study.

Auto accidents can cause fractures to the legs and arms when there are significant forces or the car rolls over. When people have seriously broken bones, orthopedic surgeons perform a procedure that shows up on a surgical note as “ORIF”. We often see victims of serious car and truck accidents who have had this procedure, but victims of motorcycle accidents are probably most at risk for this kind of serious injury. This procedure may be done when there is a fracture to the hip, ankle, wrist, the  femur, or either of the bones in the lower leg (the tibia and fibula).  To repair the fracture, the doctor surgically “opens” the area where the bone(s) is broken and then realigns the bone(s) so they are back in their natural position. This part of the procedure is called the “Open Reduction”.  The next step is for the surgeon to use the appropriate plates, rods, pins, nails, and screws to mend the broken bone together until it heals. This is the “internal fixation”. The surgeon than stitches close the opening, and hopefully the fracture will mend. There is a risk of blood clots, infection, and the failure of the broken bone to heal or fuse. When someone has an ORIF procedure, they have had a serious injury involving tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, lost work, and permanent impairment. The best that can happen is the regain the use of the injured arm, leg, etc. They will never be the same person. Our clients who have had ORIF procedures count on us to know understand their injuries and be able to ask their doctors the right questions. That’s our job. For a medical paper that reviews ORIF procedure and has x-rays of what the joints look like afterwards, click here.