Suffered An Auto Accident Injury?
If you’ve been injured in an accident, now is the time to focus on your recovery. But who will focus on paying the bills? Now is the time to have an aggressive, experienced personal injury attorney working for you!
Injury Facts
The types of injuries you sustain in an accident will be correlated to many factors: the kind of accident, the speed involved, and the position in the vehicle, for example, can have a huge impact on those in a collision. We know that across the country, more than three million people suffer injuries from traffic accidents annually. Those injuries cost over $230 billion every single year.
Common Injuries
The body is a complex set of interdependent systems. While durable and tough, even minor accidents can cause serious and long-term problems:
- Orthopedic injuries: Injuries to the orthopedic system are quite common in motor vehicle accidents. They can include difficulties such as whiplash, spinal injuries, broken bones, sprains, and injuries to tendons, muscles, and ligaments.
- Soft tissue: Muscles, ligaments, and tendons can be affected by a collision, and those impacts can be acute—severe pain right after the injury is incurred—or chronic—lasting long after an accident occurs.
- Skeletal injuries: Fractured bones can occur in an accident in many parts of the body. Besides the arms and legs, many crash victims experience back, skull, chip, and clavicle fractures. These can result in serious pain, immobility, bruising, and deformities.
- Nerve injuries: Nerves run throughout the body. Injuries to spinal nerves can impact mobility, whereas sensory nerve damage could impair sensation. Finally, digital nerve damage from hand trauma can impact one’s ability to hold and manipulate objects.
- Internal injuries: The organs in our bodies are susceptible to a number of injuries in a motor vehicle accident. Internal bleeding can be a result of a ruptured spleen, fractured ribs, or any injury that breaks blood vessels. A punctured lung—pneumothorax injury—can impede breathing.
- Head injuries: Concussions, brain bleeds, and brain lesions can cause serious long-term problems.
- Loss of limbs: The loss of a limb can lead to extraordinary life changes.
- Injuries that disfigure: Cuts, burns, dental injuries, and lacerations could result in painful facial reconstruction, skin grafts, and plastic surgery.
The Recovery
Many of the injuries associated with car accidents can take years to recover from. Some people never fully recover and require lifetime care. On top of the physical pain, the psychological trauma involved can be overwhelming. And the financial pain? Well, that’s where your personal injury attorney can help.
Fighting for You
At Salazar & Kelly Law Group, our dedicated Kissimmee and Orlando personal injury attorneys fight to get you the financial compensation you deserve after an accident. To discuss your situation, schedule a confidential consultation in our office today.
