Neck Injuries as a Result of a Car Accident

Austin, Texas

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When our clients come to us seeking legal representation and compensation for injuries it is no small matter. Your injuries can impact every aspect of your life. When you have sustained a serious injury, like a neck injury as a result of a car accident you need immediate medical care to prevent or reduce long-term or permanent injuries.

Neck injuries may not be apparent at the scene, and refusing medical care can result in latent swelling and inflammation causing worse injuries over the next 12-24 hours. Delaying care not only places you at risk for far more serious injuries, but can also shift liability for the severity of your injury to you. As important as it is to get information about your accident, such as names and contact information, make sure that the first step you take after an accident is to ensure that everyone who needs it gets immediate medical care.

Medical Care Needs

Once you’ve received emergency care, your need for assistance can grow exponentially. Your needs may include surgery, hospitalization, outpatient care, rehabilitative care, medications, psychological care, home care, equipment, and in more severe cases assistive devices both for mobility and for tasks of living.

Neck injuries can cause medical complications lasting just a few months, or a lifetime. Neck injuries can cause you to suffer anywhere from chronic pain to full-body paralysis. Temperomadibular joint, or TMJ can result from an acceleration-deceleration injury to your jaw. Chronic pain or loss of sensation can result from injuries to the nerve at the neck level. Where your loss of sensation or mobility occurs depends upon which nerves have been injured.

Employment Needs

A neck injury can be the most serious form of spinal cord injury because it houses all of the nerves that allow your body to function. If you are seriously injured you may lose your job, or not even be able to do the same work you were employed to do at the time of your accident. You may need career training, or may be fully disabled. The financial consequences of a neck injury can be devastating.

Family Needs

After an automobile accident, your family could suffer from the loss of your income or contribution to their home life by more than just the absence of what you provided them. During your hospitalization, they will have to change their schedules to be available when your care plan requires, to visit and support you, and to help take care of all of the accident-related matters, like filing insurance claims or obtaining police reports.

If you are seriously injured and need long-term care, your family will need to change their lifestyles to make sure you have the help you need when you need it. That may involve a spouse leaving employment or taking on employment for the first time. It may involve hiring an in-home care provider. Someone will have to help you get to and from rehabilitation and other appointments; someone will have to fill the role you once filled.

And those are just a few of the issues you and your family will have to address medically, financially, emotionally, psychologically, and in every way possible.

When you have suffered a neck injury from a car accident, your best chance of protecting all of your rights to a settlement can be secured if you will please contact the experienced motor vehicle accident attorneys at Gonzales & Gonzales, serving Austin, Texas and surrounding areas.