Our group of personal injury attorneys serves clients who have been severely injured in Beach Cities. We understand the complex troubles brought on by spinal cord injuries and have a lot of experience working with these types of claims.
When you or a loved one has suffered a closed head injury or back injury, please call our law office to plan a zero cost initial consultation.
We are here to help you get the compensation you are entitled to after going through a spinal cord injury such as:
We understand that major psychological and psychological stress occur with life-threatening injuries, like traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury or many other catastrophic injuries.
When long-term effects of such really serious injuries result in the need for life-long medical care, more than your average lawyer is called for.
Our lawyers have in depth knowledge in working with spine injury cases involving partial or total paralysis. They have also worked on many law suits regarding head trauma resulting from injuries to the lobes of the brain.
Be assured, they know these kinds of injuries and can certainly help you find complete and reasonable damages for their effects.
When someone speaks to an insurance company shortly after an accident, they may be enticed to agree to the first offer. However, insurance companies rarely offer the whole payment you need, and you can’t get more if the settlement fails to cover all your financial burdens.
Our personal injury lawyers can find out the total sum of damages you will need including future costs for medical bills, treatment, lost wages and much more.
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The full extent of the damages related to a spinal cord or brain injury, specifically closed-head injuries, can be hard to establish. You might be not able to identify the full extent of your symptoms and a doctor could have difficulties creating the proper diagnosis.
Our group of attorneys and professionals will work to get hold of all important proof for your suit such as medical records, family and witness statements, and employer reports to support your case.
We are experienced in handling cases regarding severe disability including quadriplegia and paraplegia and also emotional and brain injury causing PTSD, cognitive injuries and depression.
Our legal team offers the following to victims and their families:
Beach Cities Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys
Our firm focuses on the significant damages and long-term head, neck, and spinal cord injuries sustained in automobile accidents, truck accidents, and construction accidents and as the result of other kinds of carelessness.
We are expert in the complex medical issues involving brain and head injuries and will take legal action for you. We typically work with doctors, professionals, and enlist different specialists to build up a case for your benefit.
Spinal injuries in many cases are permanent, often life-changing, and have an effect on the lives of both victims and their families.
These injuries, whether involving permanent paralysis or otherwise, tend to be resulting from the fault of other people, whether by surgical oversight, playground accidents, birth injury, car or motorbike collisions, construction site mishaps, chemical substance exposure, defective products or machinery failures.
Our Law Office has the expertise and experience to get full and reasonable payment for those who have suffered such injuries. Brain and spinal hurt victims, along with their families; will need lawyers who comprehend the medical, physical, economic and psychological effects of TBI and SCI.
Our Beach Cities lawyers know that brain injury and spinal trauma both make long-term effects that must be dealt with. Your lawyer will be experienced and capable in the fields of neuroanatomical, medicine, vocational rehabilitation and life care planning.
Our attorneys have years of experience working in the field of neurological injury. They have a deep compassion and concern for their clients, and the family members of all those who have sustained injury.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention, 1.5 million Americans yearly sustain a brain injury. Of these, 50,000 die and over 1 million are treated in hospitals.
Several victims are kids, who definitely are most at risk. Almost 500,000 children have serious brain injuries because of accidents every year.
Where brain injury or spinal injury is the result of somebody else’s wrongful conduct, experienced attorneys are required. Your lawyer must be prepared to examine, file suit, and prosecute your claim with strength and passion.
We have the knowledge, medical understanding and courtroom track record important to make sure that you, or the loved one for whom you are responsible, obtain total payment covering medical expense, rehabilitation expenses, lost pay, supplies and equipment, loss of enjoyment of life and pain and suffering.
Our Beach Cities lawyers will talk with injured people and their loved ones in our office, at your home, or in your hospital room.
The Spinal Column
The spinal column runs from the top of the neck, extending from the brain to the lower area of the back down to the coccyx.
The spine is essentially divided into 3 parts:
Cervical
The cervical section of the spine is in the neck area. The spine is comprised of many parts of bone, and through the spine the spinal column protects the spinal cord, which runs from the brain right down to the base of the spine after which it branches out like lines coming from the power generator that carry electricity from its main source and then branch out from the generating station to the city and then branches out from there to various parts of the city.
Compression Fracture of the Spine
The spinal column is really made from soft bone, and so occasionally in a traumatic situation the person gets a compression fracture of the spine, meaning the soft bone is compressed down. A much more severe injury to the spine is when the nerves going down through the spine get hurt.
Spinal Column – Discs
Between the various levels of the bone mass in the spine are discs. The discs can be likened to a rubber inner tube or a jelly donut. In the disc is a soft material that acts as a shock absorber, and discs give flexibility to the spine.
As people age, the discs end up less pliant and become harder and less soft. This is exactly why it appears that some older people are in fact getting smaller, because the discs in their backs are not as flexible, and they are becoming flatter and harder.
Bulging Disk
A bulging disc is comparable to an inner tube tire with a bulge in it. A bulging disc is when the material within the disc begins to push through but doesn’t come out of the disc, just like a bulge in an inner tube.
This could still cause a very serious illness if the bulge is pushing upon the nerve that is exiting from the spinal column at that level of the spinal column.
Doctors can usually tell, since they understand which nerves emerge from which areas in the spinal column and check out what part of the anatomy.
So the physician usually can tell whether or not the bulge is pushing on the nerve by knowing whether or not there exists pain in a particular part of the body; whether or not the pain is radiating; and whether there is a decrease in sensation or involvement in the motor function.
Herniated Disc
A herniated or ruptured disc means that the bulge has now opened up and the material within the disc has actually come out.
This tends to be a much more serious condition, and frequently calls for compression on a nerve that is coming from that location of the spinal column. A different name which can be used is a disc protrusion.
Ordinary X-rays will only show a picture of the hard tissue, i.e., the spinal column or the bones in the arms and the legs and other parts of the anatomy.
To be able to truly view a picture of the herniated disc or the soft tissue, or other things like cancer, the doctor will either have to take a CT scan or an MRI.
MRI means magnetic resonance imaging. Your body basically goes inside the MRI machine; the machine bounces through magnets in the machine impulses that are noted and an actual image of the soft tissue comes out.