LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A 3-year-old girl whose skull was fractured by a line drive during batting practice at Dodger Stadium was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. The accident that caused the surgery occurred Monday when Dodgers catcher Russell Martin hit a line drive in the stands near third base. It hit the girl and knocked her unconscious according to Dodgers spokesman Joe Jareck. The girl was sitting with her father at the time and he rushed he to the first aid station. The Fire Department subsequently transported the girl to ...
ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA – A bus rider called the Sheriff’s Department Tuesday when he thought the driver was under the influence of alcohol. Deputies stopped the bus, route 309 from Oceanside to Encinitas, at around 4:30 p.m. The bus was heading east on Encinitas Boulevard near Calle Magdalena at the time. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the deputies determined the driver showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol. They subsequently conducted field sobriety tests. Based on the results of those tests, the 40-year-old driver was booked on suspicion of driving ...
We are more than expert personal injury attorneys. We are powerful advocates for seriously hurt persons.
Our team of personal injury lawyers help clients who have been gravely hurt in Dallas. We fully understand the complex situations caused by spinal cord injuries and have great experience taking on these lawsuits.
If you or somebody you care about has been injured in a Dallas Spinal cord accident, its possible you have a case. Please give us a call right away to talk about your injuries with a skilled Dallas Spinal cord injury lawyer.
In the event you or a loved one has endured a closed head injury or back injury, please make sure to call our law office to plan a no cost first consultation. We are here to help you recover the compensation you are entitled to after going through a spinal cord injury such as:
We know that really serious mental and psychological stress happen with life-threatening injuries, like traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury or various other catastrophic injuries. When long-term effects of such major injuries end up in the need to have life-long medical treatment, a lot more than your regular attorney is necessary.
Our attorneys have in depth expertise in working with spine injury claims involving partial or total paralysis. They have also handled a lot of cases involving head trauma as a result of injuries to the lobes of the brain. Rest assured, they know these types of injuries and can certainly help you seek full and fair damages for their effects.
In the event you or someone you love was injured in a Dallas Spine injury, its possible you have a lawsuit. Please give us a call right away to talk about your injuries with a skilled Dallas Spine injury attorney.
When a person speaks to an insurance company shortly after an accident, they may be persuaded to settle for the initial offer. However, insurance companies hardly ever gives the full compensation you will need, plus you can’t recover more if the settlement doesn’t take care of every single one of your financial troubles.
Our personal injury lawyers can find out the full amount of damages you’ll need including potential future expenses for medical bills, treatments, lost pay and much more.
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In the event you or someone you love was injured in a Dallas Spine injury, you could have a lawsuit. Please contact us right away to talk about your injuries with a skilled Dallas Spine injury lawyer.
The whole extent of the damages regarding a spinal cord or brain injury, specifically closed-head injuries, can be hard to establish. You may be unable to specify the whole extent of your symptoms and a physician could have difficulty creating the proper diagnosis.
Our group of lawyers and experts will work to get hold of all needed facts for your law suit including medical records, family and witness statements, and employer reports to support your case.
We are seasoned in working with law suits involving severe disability like quadriplegia and paraplegia as well as psychological and brain injury resulting in PTSD, cognitive injuries and depression.
Our legal staff offers the following to victims and their families:
Dallas Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys
Our firm focuses 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 forms of negligence.
We are experienced in the complex medical issues surrounding brain and head injuries and will take legal steps on your behalf. We typically work with doctors, professionals, and enlist other specialists to develop a claim on your behalf.
Call us right away for a free consultation with an experienced Dallas brain injury attorney. Evening hours and weekends available by appointment.
Spinal injuries are sometimes permanent, often life-changing, and have an effect on the lives of both victims and their loved ones. These injuries, whether involving permanent paralysis or otherwise, are usually resulting from the negligence of others, whether by surgical oversight, playground accidents, birth injury, car or motorcycle collisions, construction site mishaps, chemical exposure, faulty products or machinery failures.
Our Law Office has the skill and knowledge to get whole and reasonable compensation for those who have sustained such injuries. Brain and spinal injured victims, as well as their families, would need attorneys who comprehend the medical, physical, financial and psychological effects of TBI and SCI.
Our Dallas lawyers know that brain injury and spinal trauma both make long-term results that must definitely be taken care of.
Your attorney will be experienced and capable in the fields of neuroanatomy, medicine, vocational rehabilitation and life care planning. Our attorneys have years of knowledge working in the field of neurological injury. They have a deep compassion and concern for their clients, and the families of all those who have sustained injury.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention, 1.5 million Americans each year sustain a brain injury. Of those, 50,000 pass away and over 1 million are cared for in hospitals. Several victims are children, who are most at risk. More or less 500,000 children suffer serious brain injuries as a result of accidents every year.
Where brain injury or spinal injury is the result of another person’s wrongful conduct, expert attorneys are needed. Your lawyer should be prepared to investigate, file suit, and prosecute your claim with intensity and passion.
We have the knowledge, medical knowledge and the courtroom track record necessary to make certain that you, or the loved one for whom you happen to be in charge of, obtain total compensation covering medical costs, rehabilitation cost, lost pay, supplies and equipment, loss of enjoyment of life and suffering and pain.
Our Dallas attorneys will meet with hurt people and their families in our office, at your home, or in your hospital room.
The Spinal Column
The spine runs from the top of the neck, extending from the brain to the lower section of the back all the way down to the coccyx. The spine is essentially split into 3 parts:
Cervical
The cervical section of the spinal column is in the neck area.
The spine is made up of many parts of bone, and through the spine the spinal column guards the spinal cord, which runs from the brain 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 actually made up of soft bone, so sometimes in a traumatic event the person gets a compression fracture of the spine, meaning the soft bone is compressed down. A much more serious injury to the spine is when the nerves going down through the spine become hurt.
Spinal Column – Discs
Between the several levels of the bone mass in the spine are discs. The discs can be likened to a rubber inner tube or a jelly donut. Within the disc is a soft substance 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.
That is why it would appear that some older people are actually shrinking, as the discs in their backs are not as flexible, plus they’re becoming flatter and harder.
Bulging Disc
A bulging disc is similar to an inner tube tire with a bulge in it. A bulging disc happens when the material inside the disc begins to push through but does not come out of the disc, like a bulge in an inner tube.
This may still result in a serious illness 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 recognize which nerves emerge from which areas in the spinal column and check out what section of the anatomy.
And so the physician can usually tell whether or not the bulge is pressing on the nerve by knowing 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.
Herniated Disc
A herniated or torn disc suggests that the bulge has now opened up and the material inside the disc has actually emerged. This tends to be a more serious condition, and frequently involves compression on a nerve that’s coming from that area of the spinal column.
Another term which can be used is a disc protrusion.
Ordinary X-rays are only going to show an image of the hard tissue, i.e., the spinal column or the bones in the arms and the legs along with other parts of the anatomy. 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 have to take a CT scan or an MRI.
MRI 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 image of the soft tissue comes out.
Choosing the Right Spine Injury Attorney
If you have suffered a spine injury, then you are in a very special category. Your life, perhaps more than any other victims, is changed forever, and until medicine finds a way to repair your spinal cord, you will be in your current state for the rest of your life. Whether your spinal cord injury was due to a vehicular accident, an accident at work, a slip and fall, or even medical negligence, it is important that you make contact with a Dallas spine injury attorney as soon as you can.
Spinal cord injuries are particularly specific and require an attorney who understands the medicine behind it, your prognostication, and what it will cost to support you now and for the rest of your life. Because your life may be so incredibly limited by your physical capacities, you will require a good deal more financial support than other victims, and without the assistance of a good spine injury attorney, you may be left high and dry.
In addition to the fact that a spinal cord injury may leave you unable to move your arms and/or legs, you have the potential to lose many other functions such as sexual functions, bowel control, the ability to sense heat, and problems with your circulation. Although rehabilitation may help you recover some of these, the truth is that without an awful lot of money and work, you will never be back to your old self.
Even in the case of a child with a spinal cord injury, the cost of health care and rehabilitation can devastate a family’s savings and send an otherwise financially healthy family right into bankruptcy. That is why you need a spine injury attorney on your side to help you early on, so you don’t get into financial trouble that you simply can’t get out of later on.
Also, a spine injury lawyer will be able to put you in touch with the right doctors, the right therapists, and the right social services, so you are able to get everything that you should have coming to you. They will enable you to get the highest settlement possible for your injuries, which will include loss of wages, loss of future earnings, pain and suffering, and of course compensation for current and future medical bills. In the case of a younger person, this can amount to an extraordinary amount of money, so having the right spinal injury attorney on your side to fight for you is something you need to do right away.