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Traumatic Brain Injury how is it Caused?

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

When you have the whiplash, motion, either side to side or forward, there’s a liquid, and you can, of course, you know a lot more than I do. We just help people recover from their injuries. But, a liquid inside that protects the brain a little bit but, because of the impact, it crashes back and forth into the skull walls, but if you can just kind of elaborate more on what you’ve seen on the traumatic brain injuries. Well, the brain is swimming in the fluid. There is a number of structures that are anchoring the brain down to the neck, et cetera. And those are the structures that tend to be stretched by the motion of the brain inside the skull. In this, deceleration injuries, you’re going at 80 miles per hour and all of a sudden, you’re at zero miles per hour. Traumatic Brain Injury Your brain wants to keep going. And when it does, it stretches a big number of possible structures inside your skull that can cause the traumatic brain injury. It could be even bleeding from that. Now, and I’ve heard the statistic, and I don’t know how true this is, 70 to 80% of CT scans miss traumatic brain injury, cause CT only shows if there’s hemorrhaging or blood in the brain, but, have you heard anything of each, CT scan has a very low sensitivity for traumatic brain injury, unless there is a bleed, which is, thankfully, not very common because of how strong the skull is. You don’t see evidence of traumatic brain injury in a CT scan, which is what is typically performed in ERs. What do we see, what are common, if somebody was out there, what are the common symptoms, I guess, I would ask, if somebody said, and, you know, we’ve heard, “I just don’t feel right”, or, “I feel dizzy.” What have you found is the most common symptoms, what do you, traumatic brain injury.⁣ Time of the Accident Well, the patient would have an initial loss of consciousness at the time of the accident and then when they come back they, as you said, they don’t feel right, they feel dizzy, they feel this vertigo-like everything is moving around. They can have a severe headache. And then, which is the most concerning, is that these symptoms may dissipate initially, and then they would start having chronic symptoms of traumatic brain injury which would even include emotional liability, problems like that, yeah.⁣ Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 So, a lot of times, focusing, maybe connecting with loved ones, you know, vertigo, standing up, mood swings, okay, stuff like that. Yeah, cause a lot of people, I think that they’re not really thinking about this traumatic brain injury issue, but it is happening, because even at low impacts, we’ve seen that it does affect people’s mood, they just don’t feel right, in the field. They feel off, that we’ve heard. They don’t understand what is happening. Nobody’s told them they could have a traumatic brain injury. And they just can’t back to their lives and they don’t know why. Call 813.421.3411 for more information. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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Car accidents are the Most Common Accidents

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

Accidents are the most common forms of incidents on the road. Just in Hillsborough County, there’s close to 3,000 car accidents, per day, in Polk, Pasco, Pinellas. In almost every other county, there is an average of 2,000 to 25, to 3,000 car accidents per day. Even though that number sounds staggering, there are hundreds of thousands of cars on the road every single day. So, the more cars that are on the road, the greater the risk of car accidents happening. Car accidents, many times on bumper-to-bumper traffic, between eight in the morning till six p.m., are typically non-fatal accidents when they’re on regular roads. Car accidents, when they’re on the interstate, because of the higher speeds, there are fewer accidents but they’re typically more fatal than other incidents that are on local roads. Car accidents, if the person that crashed into you, could’ve avoided the accident, due to their negligence of speeding, following to close, careless driving, they would be the one at fault. Florida is a no-clause state, which that means if you’re involved in a car accident, your insurance company covers you for your injuries, and your medical payments up to $10,000 if it’s an emergency medical condition. You do not need to go to the hospital to get the emergency medical condition, you may have to see a physician, or a doctor, or a chiropractic doctor, to evaluate you and then eventually you will have to go to an MD, or a DO, or something like that. MD, which is a medical doctor, and DO is also a form of a medical doctor, as well. To qualify from the $2500 that the insurance company caps you up to the $10,000 of insurance benefits. Car accidents, when the person that crashes into you, if they have bodily injury coverages, that’s the part that helps us, as a law firm, help you recover for your injuries, pain, and suffering, and loss of enjoyment. If the person that crashes into you has non-sufficient insurance or no insurance, if you carry uninsured motorist on your policy, that uninsured motorist will cover you for any offset that the other side did not have. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 For example, if you had a, if the person that crashed into you had a $10,000 bodily injury policy, and your injuries are worth $30,000, but you had a $20,000 uninsured motorist policy, that $10,000 would pay for the at-fault party, the person that caused the accident, and the $20,000 would pay for your insurance to make you whole. Not always does it make you whole, because many times if that’s the case, you may not have enough uninsured motorist, or they have enough bodily injury coverage that you don’t have to even impact your own policy. Every case is a little bit different, every auto accident is a little bit different. Auto accidents, it’s easier to find liability when it’s a rear-end collision, however, there are cases where there are T-bone collisions, there are cases where there’s making left-turn collisions, cases where people are making U-turns. So, every case is a little bit different. If you have any questions about auto accidents, feel free to reach out to us, it’s 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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Herniations VS Bulging Disk

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

Some people have a misnomer of herniations is worse than bulging. If you could just kind of talk to us through that a little bit. – Yeah, there’s a lot of confusion that in rear-ending injuries that the basic mechanism is what we call a flexion-extension injury where the initial motion of the patient is forward with a backlash where there are two very common injuries. One to the ligaments that support the neck and to the disks that is separate the vertebrae in the neck. In those, we see what is common as seen as disk, or heard as, disk herniations, but the level, the severity, of that herniation is what prompts the severity of the symptoms. So a radiologist read a disk herniation in different ways which can be confusing. Herniation In general, a bulge is a step prior to a herniation. So it’s a very small herniation that is typically not causing symptoms, but that is not always true. Many times a disk bulge can cause symptoms of neck pain and sometimes pinched nerves in the neck that cause pain down the arms or into the head. A herniation can be divided into either a protrusion or an extrusion. Now to continue on that of course, but what exactly, and definitely go into the protrusion and extrusion things like that, but what exactly for everybody out there that don’t know what herniation even is, is that the disk that comes out of place? Let me show you this cause I like to show it. I don’t know if I can show the camera, but in the spine there are vertebrae. This is what you touch in the back. Whenever you touch the back of your neck you touch this part of the spine. The bones in between are separated by a structure that is mostly a gel. Designed for cushioning between the bones, and they are supposed to be fairly aligned with the edges of the bone. A herniated disk is when that gel comes out of place, typically backward where the nerves Are coming out of. Hence creating pain going down your arms or something like that correct? And so that’s what a herniated disk is. What exactly is a bulge then? It’s just used in small herniation?⁣- Well, a bulge is typically a smaller herniation. Then when a herniation is a protrusion versus an extrusion what that typically means is a disk can herniate moving completely out or it can break. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 A Tear in the Fibers There can be a tear in the fibers of the disk and that gel comes out almost free-flowing into where the spine and the nerves are. And an extrusion is typically considered the most severe form of a disk herniation. Logically I would imagine if the gel or the liquid is coming out it would cause pain, but why does it cause pain? Is it because, well is it because it’s hitting the nerve roots or what? Why does it? – Two main reasons. One, the mechanical aspect of the disk pinching against the nerve, so it’s just pushing against it. It’s making this nice and big hole very small. And the other one is that a herniated disk is very inflammatory. It’s very warm and red. It’s angry. ⁣Everything it touches it causes it to be red and angry as well. So when the disk barely touches the nerve it can also cause the nerve to be very irritated and cause pain. That’s why even small herniations that do not appear to be impinging mechanically on a nerve can still cause a lot of pain. Call 813.421.3411 for help. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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The Most Common Rear-End Type Injuries

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

Whenever you get a person that got rear-ended, what are the most common injuries that you find from those types of accidents? Spine injuries to the neck. So what we call the cervical spine in the neck is very frequently injured and it presents with a variety of symptoms sometimes with very severe headaches, neck pain, pain in the shoulders. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 Sometimes these patients even have something called vertigo where the patient feels dizzy and the world around them turns constantly. It’s not that uncommon to see that in a rear-ending injury. Now when you mentioned spinal injuries, ’cause there are different types of spinal injuries as well and different things that affect the disc, just walk us through what specifically do you find, herniations? Call us at 813.421.3411 for more information. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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Can I Make A Claim in the Taxi Company?

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

People still use taxis. Not as often anymore. But taxis, many times they’re self-insured. Sometimes they have commercial policies. Sometimes they’re owned by the taxi car, they’re owned by individual people and they just pay to put the taxi symbol on their car. That changes the dynamic quite a bit because if they’re paying the company to put the tag on the car, they may have a higher policy, personal policy but we may not be able to go after taxi company. However, if they’re en route and they’re currently working as a taxi driver, if we ever had to make a claim, we would still make a claim to the taxi company and then that taxi company, if they paid anything, may segregate back from the person that caused the accident, which is their driver. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 If that taxi company is self-insured, you will look at that taxi company’s liability coverages to cover you for any injuries that that taxi negligent driver may have caused. Let’s say you’re in a taxi and someone crashes into the taxi, at that point, it’s not the taxi driver. It’s the person that caused the accident which would be the at-fault party. Then those entities or those peoples, yourself would make a claim against the people who actually caused the accident. Let’s say you are a passenger in a taxi company, and the taxi company crashes into somebody else, you can still make a claim towards that taxi driver, or the taxi driver’s company. We can definitely go through the process. Every case is a little bit different. If you have any questions, please reach out to us. Our number is 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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What is Anuloplasty?

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 4, 2019

What is this annuloplasty? Annuloplasty is a procedure targeting that tear in the disc. It is a very common injury after car accidents, and not as much in degenerative disease of aging or anything like that in the spine. There is a tear of the fibers in these discs right here. That tear itself is painful. So the annuloplasty consists of, through a needle, it’s a big needle called cannula, but it’s still a needle, it’s not surgery. We get to the disc and put a little probe, like a wire, around those fibers that are broken and we turn on a type of energy that is going to cause the fibers to coagulate. In other words, we reseal the tear. In addition to that, the little nerves that are very hyperactive there, they also get treated in a similar fashion to what they do with the radio frequency. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 You get a sealing of that tear that occurred in the disc. This is a kind of exciting stuff. It’s almost like, have you ever seen, you have kids, I have kids, too. Like, Wolverine, have you ever seen, he heals and. It’s kind of like, it’s kind of like you’re creating, you’re putting the body in a state that it can heal itself and, as you said, regenerate and with the electric. That’s what we are looking for, we’re looking to heal without the need for more invasive approaches like surgery. So, all these are great alternatives to surgeries, is that a correct statement? Call us for more information. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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The Most Common Injuries After an Accident

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 1, 2019

What are the most common injuries do you find in your line of practice? Spine injuries secondary to car accidents is by far what I see the most. I see an incredible number of rear-ending injuries from people who were texting and they failed to see the person in front of them stopping, and they’re rear-ended. And rear-ending injuries have very predictable consequences in terms of the pain and the injuries that occur. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 The biggest impacts that we see as far as auto accidents go, we have other moped accidents, scooter accidents, but it’s either rear-ended injuries or accidents or left-hand turn ones. Those are the two most common, but the rear end ones are the ones that we find are a lot of damage unless they get T-boned. Call us at 813.421.3411 for more information. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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This is how the Insurance Companies Value your Claim

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 1, 2019

You’re probably wondering what are the insurance company looking at when they look at your claim? How do they value your claim? Well, they value it in multiple ways. One, they look at property damage. They look at the damage to your car to see how bad was the impact if, for example, if somebody rear-ended you, they look at the collision, the impact, the crushing, things like that. They look at your car, what type of car you have and what type of car the other person has as well. They also look at injuries. Injuries are, above all, the most important thing. They look at, did their car, did the at-fault party, the other driver, did they substantially cause the injuries to your body or to your self? If the damage is small, the property damage is small, but the injuries are great, that becomes an issue, but at least, if they are higher injuries, it could still mean that they caused that accident. Then they look at history. Were you involved in other car accidents? Were you involved in other injuries? Slip, falls, anything of that nature. It’s very important for them to look at everything because the insurance companies, they’re not your friend. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 They’re trying to value the case as low as possible, to offer as low as possible. That’s why they’re called adjusters. They’re adjusting the claim down. So, it’s very important for us to document everything correctly and it’s very important for us to create the story of your life. How has it affected you, not just your pain, but how has it affected your life? How has it affected your life with your kids? How has it affected your life with loved ones, hobbies, activities, things of that nature? So, it’s not just a one-size-fits-all, most people complain about back pain, it’s not just about back pain, it’s other issues that we use to complete the story to present the story to the insurance company. That’s how they value the injuries. Property damage is very important, in addition, the injuries are very important. So, everybody’s injuries are going to be a little bit differently, everybody’s going to be different in their own way. If you have any questions on this, feel free to give us a call at 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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Use your Health Insurance for Hospitals

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 1, 2019

So you go to the hospital, what do you do next? You have health insurance. You don’t have auto insurance. Let’s say you have health insurance but go to the hospital or you go to a primary care doctor, or something like that. You could use your health insurance, if you have health insurance, there’s pros and cons with using your health insurance. The pro is, if the hospital bill is, let’s say $10,000 and I’m making up numbers here, but they have a health insurance rate meaning that the health insurance has a pre-negotiated rate with that hospital to reduce the rate, so if you give them your health insurance information, they have to reduce that $10,000 bill to whatever the negotiated rate may be. So let’s say, for example, the negotiated rate is $1,500. Instead of paying $10,000, your health insurance is paying $1,500. At the end of the settlement, we have to reimburse your health insurance back, it’s called subrogation. We have to reimburse them back $1,500, but your hospital bill’s paid off. On the other flip side of it, if you did not use your health insurance or do not have insurance, they want their full $10,000. So we have to reimburse them back the $10,000. Florida’s a no-fault state, your auto insurance covers up to $10,000 in medical coverages, but there’s usually a percentage that’s not covered and deductible. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 For the hospitals, they always want all their money upfront, not upfront but at the settlement. So if you have health insurance, it’s really important, use your health insurance wherever you can, especially when big-ticket items like the hospital, and then at the end of the settlement we’ll work on negotiating those bills, that way we can pay off the health insurance lean, because the health insurance wants their money back, because they’re paying for something that wasn’t accident-related, sorry paying for something that wasn’t health-related, but was accident-related. If you have any questions on this, feel free to give us a call, 813 421 3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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Going to the Doctor after A Car Accident

Edward Reyes, Esq / November 1, 2019

Whenever you’re involved in a car accident, many people think it’s different than going to a regular doctor. I’ll give you an example. If you are sick, you go to your primary care physician and that person refers you to somebody else, a specialist to help you with that sickness, whatever that sickness may be, and that specialist may refer you to somebody else. That’s how that process works, but for whatever reason, when people are involved in auto accidents, they feel that they don’t need to go to specialists. But you’re still injured, you’re still having a problem, the difference is that now it’s not health-related, it’s accident-related, but yet it created health conditions and health issues. So whenever you go see the doctor, the doctor may recommend for you to have an MRI, which is something that shows a diagnostic study of your spine or neck or whatever they choose to do the MRI of, could be wrist, could be joints, could be a lot of things, or of your head. And they also look at what other specialists could help you to make yourself, to help you feel better, in not just for the case purpose, but also really help you feel better. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 I would not go to a chiropractic doctor if I’m having neurological issues. I may also go to a chiropractor, but I would also want to go see a neurologist. So, treat them like you’re going to a regular doctor and it’s going to work out better for you and better for your case. If you have any questions on this, feel free to give us a call, 813 421 3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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