Yes, if:
- Someone else’s careless or reckless actions caused it
- A league or school failed to develop concussion protocols or properly train coaches and game officials in its implementation
- Coaches, athletic trainers, or game officials failed to follow concussion protocols
A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that carries with it potentially serious, long-term health consequences. Athletes who suffer one concussion face a heightened risk of suffering a successive one. Concussions can also cause debilitating cognitive, motor, physical and emotional impairments that interfere with school and work. Long-term symptoms can include persistent headaches, light and sound sensitivity, brain fog, sleep disruption, and fatigue.
Perhaps even more frighteningly, science has begun to emerge that concussions and microtraumas suffered early in life—particularly from playing sports—can dramatically increase a person’s risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that causes symptoms akin to dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Concussions once had the reputation as the sort of no-big-deal injury that comes with the territory when you play sports, like an ankle sprain or a sore muscle. We now know that is not the case. Concussions are serious brain injuries. Speak with an attorney from The Levin Firm in Fort Lauderdale if you or your loved one suffered a preventable concussion in connection with playing sports.