Hormone Therapy Promises Breakthrough Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI often occurs in severe automobile and truck accidents, workplace disasters and other accidents. The degree of impact on a victim's life is defined by the severity of the injury. A minor TBI for instance, would include a concussion, while severe injuries can result in a person being dependent on care even for his basic needs.
As Indiana personal injury lawyers representing victims of accidents across the state, we frequently come across persons who have suffered a severe brain injury. Unfortunately, there has been little advancement made in treatment for TBI, and no new treatment program has been approved for at least the past three decades. That could change soon, as researchers begin clinical trials into the benefits of progesterone therapy on TBI.
Studies conducted 25 years ago seem to indicate that progesterone, a hormone that is typically used to treat menstruation problems, can actually have a protective effect on damaged brain tissue. It may prevent inflammation, and could check further damage. The new trials will include more than 1,000 patients who will be injected with the progesterone hormone a few hours after the injury. For the treatment to work, the hormone must be injected within a period of four hours after the person suffers a TBI. The treatment must then be continued over the next four days. The study promises to result in possibly new treatments for TBI that can limit the impact that an injury can have, and prevent death.
Medical experts, doctors and brain injury lawyers in Indiana will be watching the trials closely. We hope that the trials lead to a new treatment program that uses progesterone to limit the extent of TBI.
