Our firm handles a small number of traumatic brain injury cases every year to a successful conclusion. We understand the problems associated with these injuries, and advise clients and their families through the serious changes that take place after a traumatic brain injury.
We also work on large brain injury cases nationally. In addition to handling hundreds of traumatic brain injury cases as a lawyer, Aaron DeShaw has an additional doctorate degree that required over 4,000 hours of classroom instruction, including over 700 hours of classroom instruction on issues pertaining to traumatic brain injuries including gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurological diagnosis.
Dr. DeShaw has continued to build on this education in the field of brain and neurological injuries by reading new articles nearly every day on traumatic brain injuries, neuropsychology, advanced brain imaging, neurology, cognition, memory, and on legal issues pertaining to brain injury cases. Our database of medical research articles just on the topic of traumatic brain injury exceeds 500 articles in nearly 100 different categories, and contains research on issues including; Addiction after brain injury, Alzeheimers after brain injury, Amnesia after brain injury, brain injury assessment forms, autoimmune conditions after brain injury, Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction after brain injury (including dysautonomias such as Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), Behavioral changes after traumatic brain injury, Increased suicide risk after TBI, the biochemical cascade after traumatic brain injury, biomarkers of TBI, Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury, traumatic brain injury resulting from blast injuries and natural gas explosions, blood brain barrier disruption after concussion, child and pediatric brain damage, cognitive effects of traumatic brain injury, Coma resulting from TBI, Concussions in sports, Traumatic Brain Injury medical society consensus statements, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE following both subconcussive head strike and traumatic brain injuries, delay in symptoms of concussion and traumatic brain injury, Major Depressive Disorder following a traumatic brain injury, Diagostic criteria of mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury, Diffuse Axonal Injury, Disability after TBI, Dizziness after concussion, Dystonia after brain injury, Defense junk science including the diagnosis of malingering and somatoform disorder, the effect of age in permanent symptoms of TBI, Endocrine and hormonal changes after brain injury, Explosion and TBI, failure to diagnose brain injury in the Emergency Room, Fatigue after traumatic brain injury, Foreign Accent Syndrome after brain injury, Frontal lobe injuries in a traumatic brain injury, the role of Functional Neurology in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, future symptom risk in post-concussion syndrome, genetic testing for Alzheimers as a Prior infirm condition for traumatic brain injury, genital and sexual dysfunction after brain injury, gasterointestinal dysfunction after TBI and the neuro-enteric system, Impact on the Gut-Brain Axis caused by concussion, onset of autoimmune conditions after TBI caused by alteration of the gut flora following a traumatic brain injury, Glasgow Coma Scale, Head strike not necessary as a definition of concussion or traumatic brain injury, hearing changes and their relation to brain injury, Imaging methods for traumatic brain injury (including research on MRI, CT, DTI, Magnetoencephalography or MEG, fMRI, QEEG, SPECT, PET, and HDFT), Impairment from traumatic brain injury, urinary incontinence following brain injury, fecal incontinenece after traumatic brain injury, infertility after traumatic brain injury (including articles on both endocrine / hormonal changes and infertility caused by temporal lobe seizures), intracranial pressure and abnormal CSF flow after brain injury, lab testing for health effects of TBI, loss of consciousness after TBI (and its lack of validity in diagnosing TBI or predicting permanent symptoms of brain damage), the Malingering defense and its lack of credibility, microglia effect after traumatic brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury or mTBI, missed diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, moderate traumatic brain injury, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, Mortality or Death following traumatic brain injury, neuroinflammation, neurological changes after traumatic brain injury or concussion, neurometabolic cascade as a secondary effect of traumatic brain injury, nutrition after a concussion, loss of sense of smell as part of post-concussion syndrome, pain and brain damage, Parkinsons' Disease after brain injury, post concussion syndrome, Practice Effects of Repeated Neuropsychological testing, Prosopagnosia, Psychological and neuropsycholgical testing after traumatic brain injury (including research articles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory or MMPI, neuropsychological testing on causation of brain injury, neuropsychological testing raw data, neuropsychological remote testing, neuropsychological testing guidelines, APA code of conduct, testing validity and the Test of Memory and Malingering, the Fake Bad Scale as junk science, Videotaping of neuropsychological testing), psychological conditions arising from traumatic brain injury and the impact on people's lives, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD") and Traumatic Brain Injury, Second Impact Syndrome, Seizures following traumatic brain injury, Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Permanent symptoms follwing a single concussion, skull fractures and associated traumatic brain injury, sleep disorders following TBI, the invalidity and legal inadmissibility of the diagnosis of "Somatic Symptom Disorder" from the DSM-V, speech disorders following traumatic brain injury, stroke following traumatic brain injury, Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, Tremor following traumatic brain injury, vestibular injury as a concurrent injury with TBI, Vision Disturbances after traumatic brain injury, and white matter changes following concussion. Not only do we have extensive research on all of these issues, but we have handled traumatic brain injury cases involving nearly every one of these issues.
We have experience with frequent brain injury insurance defense witnesses
In our brain injury cases, Dr. DeShaw has gone head to head with several well known Oregon insurance defense neuropsychologists including Laurence Binder Ph.D., Larry Friedman Ph.D., Donna Wicher, Ph.D., Lee Doppelt, Elizabeth Ziegler, as well as defense neurologists like Lynne Bell, M.D., Leslie McAllister M.D., neurosurgeon Richard Polin M.D., Radiologist Christopher Morgan M.D., opthamologists Andrew Romanowski M.D., and Timothy Carey M.D., neurootologist Jeffrey Brown MD and many others.
DeShaw is known for challenging the use of unqualified test technicians who are performing testing in litigation cases. Our firm has discrediting the use of the “Fake Bad Scale” which insurers and their doctors attempt to use to discredit legitimately injured people. Not only have we gotten junk science tests struck in both federal and state court, but in some cases we won't move to strike it and discredit the insurance defense witnesses with bogus testing in front of the jury.
Many lawyers who face these defense witnesses call Aaron DeShaw for advice on how to cross examine insurance defense doctors during depositions, arbitration, and trial. We maintain significant databases on defense expert witnesses who make a living claiming that injured people are not injured.
In addition to lecturing for the public, injured people and health care providers (including the VA) for free, DeShaw is known in the physician and legal communities for lecturing nationally on the topics of traumatic brain injuries, the defenses used by insurance companies and their doctors in traumatic brain injury cases, and in advanced brain imaging.