BACK INJURY ATTORNEY
St. Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City, Missouri
Serious back injuries can change your life forever. The chronic pain that accompanies most serious back injuries can be debilitating and may even make you unemployable, leaving you with no income.
A back injury may at first appear minor; however, even the most minor back injuries can put an individual out of work for days. A back injury that appears initially minor can reveal itself as a serious injury requiring surgery, rehabilitation and medical assistance.
If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident and sustained a back injury, please contact our back injury attorneys as soon as possible for a free case evaluation. We will evaluate your legal situation, answer your questions, and advise you as to your legal options and rights. If we take your case, we will aggressively pursue compensation for you, even if we must argue your case to a jury.
How Back Injuries Occur
The most common types of accidents that cause back injuries include:
- Slip and Fall Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Construction Site Accidents
- Car Accidents
- SUV Rollovers
Types of Back Injuries
A back injury may or may not involve an injured spinal cord. The spinal vertebrae can be chipped or pushed out of alignment without the spinal cord being damaged. That is a less serious injury than a spinal cord injury, but it can still be very painful, disabling, and expensive to treat.
Whiplash, which often occurs in an auto accident, is the most common type of back injury, injuring the backbone in the neck region. Other back injuries are compression fractures and slipped, ruptured, or herniated disks.
Back Injury Symptoms
If a back injury involves only the spinal bones, symptoms will be local. There may be bleeding, bruising, severe pain, visible bone misalignment, muscle spasms and restricted movement. If the injury also affects the spinal cord, symptoms could involve any other part of the body, depending on where the injury is on the spinal cord:
- Memory loss
- Muscle spasms
- Back stiffness, numbness or tingling
- Chronic headaches
- Dizziness
- Impaired vision
- Nausea and vomiting
Since many back injuries occur during an auto accident, it is important to accept onsite medical treatment, even if you feel fine. You may be in shock as well as injured in your back. Emergency medical workers can diagnose your medical status and take appropriate measures. If you refuse treatment and later develop back injury symptoms, insurance companies will claim that your symptoms were not caused by the car accident.
Compensation can provide you with payment for:
- Loss of earnings
- Diminished earning capacity
- Reduced quality of life
- Medical expenses, such as doctor visits, ambulance fees, pain medication, and physical therapy (past and future)
- Mental and physical suffering
Why You Need a Back Injury Attorney
Accurately gauging the financial and emotional burden a back injury will impose is difficult and may well be contested in a trial. You can protect your rights by working with an aggressive personal injury attorney to pursue the full extent of your entitled compensation.
At The Bradley Law Firm, our attorneys have been obtaining full compensation for the citizens of St. Louis, Kansas City and the entire state of Missouri for over thirty years. Please contact our personal injury law firm today for your free case evaluation.