Spinal Cord Injuries and personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles
As with brain injuries, Los Angeles sees its fair share of spinal cord injuries. Personal injury lawyers can help victims and their direct families with cases involving spinal cord injuries. Unfortunately, the spinal cord is very sensitive to injury.
Unlike other parts of your body, the spinal cord does not have the ability to repair itself if it is damaged. A spinal cord injury occurs when there is damage to the spinal cord either from trauma, loss of its normal blood supply, or compression from tumor or infection. There are approximately 10,000 new cases of spinal cord injury each year in the United States, some of which occur right here in Los Angeles.
Complete or incomplete spinal cord injuries:
Spinal cord injuries are described as either complete or incomplete. In a complete spinal cord injury there is complete loss of sensation and muscle function in the body below the level of the injury.
In an incomplete spinal cord injury there is some remaining function below the level of the injury. In most cases both sides of the body are affected equally.
An injury to the upper portion of the spinal cord in the neck can cause quadriplegia-paralysis of both arms and both legs. If the injury to the spinal cord occurs lower in the back it can cause paraplegia-paralysis of both legs only.
Personal injury lawyers can represent the victims of spinal cord injuries, to use the law to help the victims get compensation to have a more normal lifestyle.
Spinal Cord Injury resulting in paralysis breakdown:
- Paraplegia: paralysis of the lower part of the body
- Quadriplegia: paralysis of the upper and lower extremities
- Complete paralysis: complete loss of control and feeling below the point of injury
- Incomplete paralysis: still some feeling and control of extremities below the point of injury
Spinal cord injuries and Los Angeles personal injury lawyers:
Because of the many issues with victims of spinal cord injuries, personal injury lawyers will try to gather as much information as possible about the injury, and the extra activities and occurrences the symptoms of the injury can cause victims and their families. The goal of the Los Angeles team of personal injury lawyers at Pacific Attorney Group is to assist the victim and/or their families to cope with the extra burden of providing for the victim.
Injuries to the spinal cord can cause weakness or complete loss of muscle function and loss of sensation in the body below the level of injury. Spinal cord injuries in the upper neck can cause difficulty breathing and may require the use of a breathing machine, or ventilator.
The everyday effects of paralysis are; can’t return to work, can’t operate a vehicle, problems in being self-reliable, and many other everyday functions that become burdensome to the victim and his or her family.
For example, visiting many different doctors and specialists may become a common weekly occurrence for the injured. There is unfortunately a heavy burden for family and friends to help the injured victim overcome the everyday obstacles. Paralysis is a life changing injury not only to the injured by to family and friends of the victim. Personal injury lawyers will seek to help the victim and families with compensation designed to provide some means of coping with the added burdens that come from a spinal cord injury.
The Pacific Attorney Group and spinal cord injury victims in Los Angeles
If you have been the victim of a spinal cord injury, or a family member has unfortunately been injured, you should know that the Los Angeles lawyers at Pacific Attorney Group have a special sympathy for and understanding of the issues that spinal cord victims must deal with.
Our goal is to provide the help needed, by showing the effects of paralysis, so that we can recover the compensation our clients need to live a more full and satisfying life after a spinal cord injury.
We can help you to get financial recovery to provide for loss of income and earning potential, adaptations for your car to hand controls, home accommodations, skilled attendant care, future medical care and other necessary expenses.
Call us now. Our Los Angeles phone number is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is never a fee for our free case review, and we will never apply sales tactics, there’s never an obligation and we will go out of our way to provide you with the best information and explanation about your rights under the law.
What Is Paraplegia?
Paraplegia is the result of a traumatic spinal cord injury that affects feeling and movement in the lower part of the body. The severity depends on if it’s a complete or incomplete spinal cord injury. If a complete spinal cord injury, it can result in a complete loss of sensation and muscle function in the body below the level of the injury.
If it is an incomplete spinal cord injury, there can be some remaining function below the level of the injury. As was mentioned above, in most cases of complete and incomplete spinal cord injury both sides of the body are usually affected equally.
An injury to the upper portion of the spinal cord in the neck can cause quadriplegia-paralysis of both arms and both legs. If the injury to the spinal cord occurs lower in the back it can cause paraplegia-paralysis of both legs only.
Paraplegia, lawsuits and personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles
If you are a Los Angeles resident and you have been the victim of paraplegia, or are a family member of a paraplegia victim, we believe you should know how personal injury lawyers can assist you. At Pacific Attorney Group, we believe there are three ways to evaluate a good personal injury lawyer for spinal injury cases:
- First, have a deep understanding of personal injury law and paraplegia.
- At Pacific Attorney Group, we study the latest legal information and cases regarding spinal cord injuries and paraplegia. Paraplegia and related spinal cord injuries require special care and attention that may require compensation above and beyond other types of personal injury. You need a personal injury lawyer that can identify all the special needs caused by a spinal cord injury and fight for your rights to receive that assistance.
- Our Los Angeles team at Pacific Attorney Group understands this need and will work with you to uncover all aspects of care that require assistance or compensation.
- Second, a personal injury lawyer should not charge until the case is settled.
- As with other personal injury cases, at Pacific Attorney Group you never pay for the services and representation we provide you until your case is settled. Our compensation comes from the settlement and your finances are not impacted while we are fighting for your rights.
- Third, you should be able to ask questions or contact your personal injury lawyer when you need to.
- How many times have you had to leave messages for other professionals, hoping they might call you back? At Pacific Attorney Group, we pride ourselves on the fact that we strive to contact our clients back, often within a few minutes of being called. You won’t talk to an answering machine or a computer if you call us. You’ll speak directly with one of us our staff, and we are reachable day and night.
When you are dealing with the emotional stress of paraplegia, you don’t need additional stress hoping that your lawyer will call you back. We don’t put you through that stress. At Pacific Attorney Group we have a phone number you can call to get in touch with us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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