Head Injury

Head injuries can affect any part of the head, the skull, the brain, or other soft tissues such as blood vessels, skin and cartilage. They can result in any degree of damage from superficial abrasions and cuts, to tearing of blood vessels, injury to the brain, bleeding in the brain, and skull fractures. Head injuries may result from even the most minimal or innocuous events to the most severe traumas. Injuries to the brain can even result when there is no direct trauma to the head, such as in a whiplash type injury where there are rapid acceleration and deceleration events.