Yesterday, all sixth graders at Hutchison Elementary School learned about using their heads, protecting their brains and then received complimentary bicycle helmets. With the “hands on” help of Dr. Paul Aravich from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Fairfax County Police Officers, and bike safety lawyer Doug Landau of the Herndon law firm Abrams Landau, the students…
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If you pick a fight with race directors or volunteers when they try to protect you from head trauma or brain injury. “Not every Triathlon or multisport competition takes the time to inspect helmets, but when they do, it is for the athletes’ safety. When a triathlete, duathlete or bike racer competes with an unsafe,…
Continue readingAfter Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was wounded in a mass shooting that injured 12 people in January, doctors removed a portion of the left side of her skull to prevent her brain from swelling and to halt tissue damage. This month the doctors used a hard plastic implant to repair a hole in Rep. Gabrielle…
Continue readingSome jobs are more dangerous than others. Working around the Metro trains, buses, tracks and repair garages exposes workers in Dc, Maryland and Virginia to significant risks of injury. News reports this month indicate that the DC area’s Metropolitan transportation workers are getting hurt on the job more often than their counterparts at other transit…
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The University of Miami is frequently at the cutting edge of advances in medical research, especially accidental spinal cord injury and paralysis. As an alum of “the U” and a lifelong follower of spinal cord research, Doug Landau returns to Miami this week for Continuing Legal Education and to learn of the latest in advances…
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