While injuries to the neck and back often heal with time and treatment, some injuries to the spinal cord are permanent. In severe cases, the injury can leave the accident victim paralyzed either temporarily or permanently as a paraplegic or a quadriplegic.
Most spinal cord injuries are the result of accidents causing trauma to the spinal canal and the nerves within it. It is the nerve fibers in the spinal canal that allow a person to feel, and move. Damage to the nerves can cause pain or in severe cases, paralysis.
Accidents that can cause this type of trauma to the spinal cord are often auto, truck, motorcycle, SUV, car, off-road vehicle, bicycle or pedestrian accidents as well as falls, and sports injuries.
California personal injury attorney Sebastian Gibson has been representing victims in auto, truck, motorcycle, car, bicycle and pedestrian accidents with spinal cord injuries in California for over 25 years. He has represented clients from San Diego to Palm Springs and Palm Desert, from Orange County to Riverside and San Bernardino County, from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo to Imperial County and throughout Southern California.
The severity of a neck or back injury can often take time to be diagnosed or otherwise reveal itself. While many severe neck and back injury cases are felt immediately at the scene of an accident, others take time before their severity is recognized.
Severe spinal cord injuries can also be associated with disc herniations requiring surgery or fusion of discs within the spinal canal. Sadly, once a person has a fusion at one disc level, they often require an additional fusion when additional stress is placed on the adjoining discs.
It is not improper to consider a spinal cord injury to be a catastrophic event. Because such injuries can lead to multiple surgeries, cause paralysis, wipe out a person's savings, eliminate a person's ability to earn money in the future, and cause hardship and frustration in a marriage, not to mention causing severe pain and suffering in the victim, there is every reason to call such an injury catastrophic.
If you or a loved one have suffered a severe or catastrophic spinal cord injury, call California attorney Sebastian Gibson. We will provide you with a free consultation in your home or hospital and we handle accident injury cases on contingency. If we don't obtain a recovery for you there is no fee.
