A former high school football player in Washington State is suing his old school district and a local chiropractic clinic for brain injuries he received in 2006.
Adrien Gault alleges in his lawsuit that the Sequim School District didn’t follow protocol by allowing him to come back and play football after sustaining multiple concussions, according to a story, http://www.komonews.com/news/local/82474567.html,
from the Peninsula Daily News that KOMO-TV ran on its Web site.
Sequim Chiropractic Clinic owner Robert Bean and his wife were also named in the suit, which seeks unspecified damages. The lawsuit was filed in Clallam County Superior Court.
According to the story, Bean wasn’t qualified to clear Gault to resume playing football, which he did despite the fact that the young player had received multiple concussions, and had to be taken from the field on a stretcher in one instance.
When he was a senior for the Wolves high school team Oct. 20, 2006, Gault went into a coma on the sidelines shortly after he had collided with a teammate during warm-ups. He had suffered a subdural hematoma.
The suit charges that the school district knew that Gault had suffered numerous concussions prior to the Oct. 20 incident, according to the story.
Gault claims that he has problems stemming from his brain damage, including a memory lapses and headaches.
Brain injury and chiropractors should never mix. No one suspected of a concussion should be seeing a chiropractor, not just because of something like this that could go wrong, but because of the risk of an artery dissection from neck manipulation.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
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