Spinal Cord Injury
Approximately 250,000 Americans are living with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).
Spinal Cord Injuries can be some of the most devastating and difficult to cope with for both the victim and those around them. Although there have been some major breakthroughs in medical research, the effects of a spinal cord injury are essentially irreversible. However, if the nerve damage is not so severe, some people have been able to restore basic motor functions and even walk with assistance. Unfortunately, the majority of spinal cord injuries cause permanent disability or total immobility and loss of sensation below the injury to the vertebrae, otherwise known as paralysis. Paralysis that affects the arms and legs is referred to as quadriplegia or tetraplegia. Loss of movement in the lower extremities is called paraplegia. An estimated 11,000 new Spinal Cord Injuries take place annually, and 82 percent of those victims are male.
Over half of these injuries happen between the ages of 16 and 30. The most common causes of Spinal Cord Injury include:
| Automobile Accidents | 37% |
| Violence | 28% |
| Falls | 21% |
| Sports | 6% |
| Other | 8% |
Just 52 percent of Spinal Cord Injury victims are subscribers to private health insurance at the time of the accident.
Emergency medical support is crucial to keeping the long-term effects of neck trauma at a minimum. As a result, a Spinal Cord Injury is usually treated immediately at the scene of the tragedy.
Some blatant symptoms that an accident victim may be suffering from Spinal Cord Injury at the scene of the mishap include:
- Sudden loss of consciousness
- Ruthless back pain or pressure buildup in back, head, or neck
- Severe weakness, clumsiness, or loss of movement in any body part
- No feeling or tingling sensation in hands, fingers, feet, or toes
- Loss of bladder and/or bowel control
- Inability to establish equilibrium
- Difficulty breathing
- Strangely positioned torso or neck
The spinal cord injury lawyers at Morgan & Morgan litigate numerous lawsuits to trial involving Spinal Cord Injury and other personal injury cases. We are extremely proud of the results that we have obtained and look forward to sharing them with you.
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Spinal Cord
Side Effects
All victims of Spinal Cord Injury will exhibit at least one of the following side effects:
- Pain or unbearable tingling feeling triggered by damage to the spine's internal nerve fibers
- Inability to move
- Sense of touch disappears along with ability to decipher hot and cold temperatures
- Loss of bladder and/or bowel control
- Intense reflexes and muscle spasms
- Reduction in sexual performance, sensitivity, and fertility
- Respiratory problems (e.g., breathing, coughing, fluid in lungs)
If you or a loved one believe that you may have a case involving a Spinal Injury, our spinal cord injury attorneys can help. Don't hesitate to fill out our free case evaluation form.
Top Verdicts & Settlements
Here are some of our recent settlements and verdicts:
Failure to perform a timely C-section resulting in serious injury.
15-year-old girl involved in rear end motor vehicle accident suffered paralysis from the waist down.
Delay in diagnosing rectal cancer in 40 year old female resulting in permanent colostomy, removal of part of liver due to spread of the cancer and lung metastasis.
Failure to diagnose TB Meningitis of a 5-year-old girl.
Automobile accident case resulting in brain injury to plaintiff. Plaintiff was in a coma for nearly 1 month and had to receive 2 months of brain injury rehabilitation.
Failure of nursing staff to monitor vital signs in post cesarean patient resulting in seizure activity and severe brain damage.
Case involved a 42 year old woman who suffered a cardiac arrest leading to brain damage which left her in a permanent vegatative state. Claim was that her doctor missed (and thus failed to treat) underlying heart disease which lead to her cardiac arrest.
Premises liability claim resulting in severe brain damage to husband and father.
Obstretical negligence, brain injury to newborn.
Wrongful death of 32-year-old husband and father due to fatal anaphylactic reaction.
