Spinal Cord Injury
The Spinal cord is the part of the central nervous axis that contained within the vertebral or neural canal which has a main function of transmitting ascending impulses to the brain and of descending impulses on the contrary.
In addition, the spinal cord relays impulses to the muscles, blood vessels and glands by means of outgoing nerves, either in response to incoming stimuli or to signals from higher levels.
Tracing history, there were already accounts of spinal cord injury and treatment during the Egyptian civilization. Written in the old papyrus manuscript was an account of two spinal cord injury that involved bone fracture and dislocation of the neck vertebrae causing paralysis to the patient. Though not written comprehensibly it was taken into account that the two occurrences were found to be incurable.
Nowadays, physicians still find it difficult to cure a spinal cord injury. It would take years for someone to make their spinal cord get back into action because most of the patients suffering from such injury were paralyzed. Acting as the main information pathway between the brain and the rest of the body, a spinal cord injury can really cause an important physiological consequences that is difficult to cure.
What can cause a spinal cord injury?
- Catastrophic falls
- Any physical trauma that crushes and compresses the vertebrae in the neck
- A severe accident (automobile accidents, etc.)
-gunshots, knife wounds
THE CLAIM
Oftentimes, because victims are still in trauma and family members are needless to say still in shocked because of the accident or better perhaps, family members doesn’t have a concrete idea on what should be done, they end up doing nothing and just deal with it on their own. However, it is your basic rights to be properly compensated if in the first place the accident is not your fault.
The first thing that you should do is to ask for a legal advice. Seek for your personal injury lawyer (accident lawyer) who is a professional on the field of spinal cord injury cases. You should of course, seek for someone who is well knowledgeable in such cases to claim for everything that has been damage. One could may not have the kind of life he/she has before the accident but it is comforting to know that your conscience is clear and that you should be well compensated for the nuisance that the suspect brought you.
Remember to choose a personal injury lawyer that is trustworthy of your time and money.
Negligence has never been an excuse.
Be guided!
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