Bone and Spinal Injuries
Accidents occur every day, in every state, county, city and town in our country. While many accidents do not result in death or serious injury, other accidents dramatically affect victims for the remainder of their lives. One of the most devastating types of frequently occurring injury involves the spinal cord. Bone and spinal injuries may result from a variety of accident types. Auto, construction site, slip and fall, and other accidents can result in bone and even spinal cord injury.
The spinal cord has many nerve fibers that serve as the messenger system for the human body, delivering commands from the brain to different parts of the body. The spinal cord travels through the spinal column, which is divided into four sections: the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and the sacral regions; or neck, mid-section, lower back and tailbone.
Each spinal cord injury is different. In some injuries, the spine pinches the spinal cord, causing it to become bruised or swollen. Sometimes the injury may tear the spinal cord or its nerve fibers. After a spinal cord injury, the nerves above the level of injury keep working like they always have. From the point of injury and below, the spinal cord nerves may not be able to send messages between the brain and parts of the body like they did before the injury.
Quadriplegia (also known as Tetraplegia) generally describes the condition of a person with a spinal cord injury that is at a level from C1 to T1. This type of injury often results in a loss of feeling and/or movement in the head, neck, shoulder, arms and/or upper chest.
Paraplegia is the general term describing the condition of a person who has lost feeling and/or is not able to move the lower parts of his/her body. The body parts that may be affected are the chest, stomach, hips, legs and feet. An individual with a level of injury from T2 to S5 may have paraplegia.
An attorney can help "level the playing field" by providing spinal cord injury victims with information regarding the practical and legal aspects of personal injury law.
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