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Your Spinal Injury Lawyer Knows That Surviving
Is Not Walking Away.
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Being alive does not always mean being able to
return to a normal life; return to work; or even stand on your own.
Your neck and back injury attorney at The Spitz Law Firm knows the
life long problems that can come with spinal cord injuries.
Since 2000, traffic accidents account for 46.9 percent of
reported spinal cord injury cases. The next most common cause of spinal cord
injuries is fall related accidents. Overall, the Center For Disease Control
and the Spinal Cord Injury Information Network reports that there are about
11,000 new cases of spinal cord injuries per year in the United States.
Spinal cord injuries occur when a traumatic event results in damage to cells
within the spinal cord or severs the nerve tracts that relay signals up and
down the spinal cord. The most common injuries of these types include
contusion (bruising of the spinal cord) and compression (caused by pressure
on the spinal cord). Other types of spine injuries include severing or
tearing of some nerve fibers and central cord syndrome (specific damage to
the corticospinal tracts of the cervical region of the spinal cord).
Spinal cord injuries are described as “complete” (abrogation or stopping of
nerve signals passing below the level of insult), or “incomplete”
(abrogation or stopping of some of the signals passing below level of
insult). The point on the cord below which there is decreased sensation or
movement is described as the level of injury. In this regard, paraplegia
results from injury or insult to the thoracic, lumbar or sacral areas of the
spinal cord. Survivors with paraplegia generally lose physical and sensory
capability (movement and feeling) in lower areas of the body (typically
waist and lower). On the other hand, tetraplegia (formerly known as
quadriplegia) results from injury or insult to the cervical area of the
spinal cord. Survivors with tetraplegia generally lose physical and sensory
capability (movement and feeling) in both upper and lower areas of the body
with impairment extending to all four limbs.
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Of those suffering a spinal cord injury, less than one
percent of individuals experienced complete neurologic recovery by hospital
discharge. Over time, the percentage of persons with incomplete tetraplegia
increases slightly while both complete paraplegia and complete tetraplegia
decreases slightly.
When assessing damages, a spinal cord injury attorney must consider more
than the physical and emotional suffering, but must also take into account
that spinal cord injuries cause significant financial damages. According to
the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, 65.6 percent of paraplegics and
75.7 percent of tetraplegics are unable to return to work in the eight years
following the accident. Of those that were able to return to work, many
could not return to the same position and/or rate of pay. These lost wages
are damages that your spinal cord injury attorney can attempt to recover
from the liable parties.
Moreover, your spinal cord injury attorney will address health care and
living expense arising as a result of the spinal injury. We know that
the average yearly health care and living expenses and the estimated
lifetime costs that are directly attributable to spinal cord injury are
significant:
Sadly, as a spinal cord injury law firm, we also know
that spinal cord injury victims also have a shorter life expectancy, which
is defined as the average remaining years of life for an individual.
Mortality rates are significantly higher during the first year after injury
than during subsequent years, particularly for severely injured persons.
Handling spinal cord injury cases not only requires legal
expertise, but medical experts to substantiate the claims made for the
experience and to testify ably. At The Spitz Law Firm, your spinal cord
injury attorney has access to a nationwide bank of such experts with the
ability to evaluate all types of spinal cord injuries and present qualified
medical expert opinion at trial together with the diagnosis, prognosis, and
causal connection of the injury to the subject accident. Your spinal cord
injury attorney also has access to our selected team of economists and life
care planners who are prepared to evaluate and project future lost income
and expenses; as well as other current and prior economic losses. Let us put
our resources to work for you right now. Call the right spinal cord injury
attorney. Call The Spitz Law Firm.
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"When assessing damages, a spinal cord injury attorney
must consider more than the physical and emotional suffering, but must also
take into account that spinal cord injuries cause significant financial
damages."
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