We are not just experienced personal injury lawyers. We are powerful supporters for gravely hurt people.
Our team of personal injury attorneys help clients who have been severely injured in Los Angeles. We know the complex troubles caused by spinal cord injuries and have a lot of experience handling these kinds of claims.
In case you or a loved one has suffered a closed head injury or back injury, please phone our law office to plan a free of charge first consultation. Please make sure to contact us right now to discuss your injuries with a skilled Los Angeles spinal cord injury lawyer.
We know that major mental and psychological trauma occur with life-threatening injuries, like traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury or many other catastrophic injuries. When long-lasting effects of such severe injuries lead in the need to have life-long medical treatment, more than your regular lawyer is required.
Our lawyers have in-depth knowledge in working with spine injury claims relating to partial or total paralysis. They have also handled several lawsuits regarding head trauma resulting from injuries to the lobes of the brain. Be assured, they comprehend these types of injuries and can certainly assist you to get full and reasonable damages for their effects.
When someone talks to an insurance company shortly after an accident, they could be enticed to settle for the first offer. But, insurance companies hardly ever gives you the whole compensation you will need, and you can’t get more if the settlement doesn’t take care of every single one of your financial burdens.
Our personal injury attorneys can determine the total sum of damages you’ll need such as future expenses for medical bills, treatments, lost pay and more.
The total extent of the damages regarding a spinal cord or brain injury, particularly closed-head injuries, can be hard to prove. You might be not able to identify the entire extent of your symptoms and a doctor could have problems coming up with the proper diagnosis.
Our group of lawyers and professionals will do the job to collect all necessary proof for your suit such as medical reports, family and witness statements, and employer reports to support your case.
We are experienced in taking on lawsuits involving severe disability including quadriplegia and paraplegia as well as emotional and brain injury leading to PTSD, cognitive injuries and depression.
Our firm concentrates on the serious damages and long-term head, neck, and spinal cord injuries suffered in car accidents, truck accidents, construction accidents and as the result of other kinds of carelessness.
We are experienced in the difficult medical matters involving brain and head injuries and can take legal action for you. We regularly work with doctors, professionals, and engage other specialists to form a case on your behalf.
Spinal injuries are often permanent, always life-changing, and affect the lives of both victims and their families. These injuries, whether involving permanent paralysis or otherwise, are often caused by the mistake of others, whether by surgical oversight, playground accidents, birth injury, car or motorcycle collisions, construction site accidents, chemical exposure, faulty products or machinery failures.
Our Law Office has got the skill and experience to obtain whole and fair payment for whoever has received such injuries. Brain and spinal injured victims, along with their loved ones, will need attorneys who know the medical, physical, financial and psychological effects of TBI and SCI.
Our Los Angeles attorneys understand that brain injury and spinal trauma both make long-term results that need to be dealt with. Your attorney will be an expert and capable in the fields of neuro-anatomy, medicine, vocational rehabilitation and life care planning.
Our attorneys have years of experience working in the field of neurological injury. They also have a deep compassion and interest for their clients, and the family members of all those who have suffered injury.
As reported by the National Center for Injury Prevention, 1.5 million Americans every year suffer a brain injury. Of these, 50,000 die and over 1 million are cared for in hospitals. Several victims are children, who definitely are most in danger. Nearly 500,000 children suffer serious brain injuries because of accidents each year.
Where brain injury or spinal injury is the outcome of somebody else’s wrongful conduct, expert lawyers are needed. Your lawyer should be prepared to examine, file suit, and prosecute your lawsuit with intensity and enthusiasm.
We have the knowledge, medical understanding and the courtroom track record needed to be sure that you, or the family member for whom you are responsible, receive full compensation covering medical expense, rehabilitation cost, lost wages, supplies and equipment, loss of enjoyment of life and pain and suffering.
In the event you or somebody you care about has been injured in a Los Angeles Spinal cord injury, don’t hesitate to call us right away. Our Los Angeles attorneys will meet up with hurt persons and their families in our office, at your home, or in your hospital room.
The Spinal Column
The cervical part of the spine is in the neck area. The spinal column is made up of many parts of bone, and through the spine, the spinal column guards the spinal cord, which runs from the brain right down to the base of the spine, and then 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.
The spinal column is really made from soft bone, and so sometimes, in a traumatic event, a person gets a compression fracture of the spine, which means the soft bone is compressed down. A bit more severe injury to the spine is when the nerves heading down through the spine become injured.
In-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. Inside a disc is a soft substance that acts as a shock absorber, and discs grant flexibility to the spine.
As persons get older, the discs end up less pliant and become tougher and less soft. This is exactly why it would appear that some older people are actually getting smaller, because the discs in their backs are not as pliant, and they are getting flatter and harder.
A bulging disc is analogous to an inner tube tire with a bulge in it. A bulging disc is when the material inside the disc begins to push through but doesn’t come out of the disc, like a bulge in an inner tube. This may still cause a very serious condition if the bulge is pushing upon the nerve that is exiting from the spinal column at that level of the spinal column.
Physicians can usually tell, because they know which nerves come out of which areas in the spinal column and look at what part of the anatomy. And so the doctor can usually tell whether or not the bulge is pushing on the nerve by figuring out whether or not there is pain in a certain part of the body; whether or not the pain is radiating; and whether there is a loss of sensation or involvement in the motor function.
A herniated or ruptured disc means that the bulge has now opened up and the material within the disc has in fact come out. This would be a more severe situation, and frequently involves compression on a nerve that is coming from that location of the spinal column. Another name which can be used is a disc protrusion.
Ordinary X-rays will only show an image of the hard tissue, i.e., the spinal column or the bones in the arms and the legs and other parts of the body structure. In order to truly view a picture of the herniated disc or the soft tissue, or other things such as cancer, the physician will either need to take a CT scan or an MRI that means magnetic resonance imaging. Your body actually goes inside the MRI machine; the machine bounces through magnets in the machine impulses that are recorded and an actual picture of the soft tissue comes out.