Your Lodi, NJ Back & Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers
Experts suggest that between 250,000 to 450,000 U.S. citizens are living with a spinal cord injury. The injuries are devastating, disabling, and they can turn your life upside down if you or your loved one has suffered from an injury like this. Additionally, many individuals suffer from back injuries, one of the most common types of injuries experienced on the job. Our spinal cord injury lawyers understand how hard these injuries can be.
Dealing with the physical and psychological pain caused by these injuries is hard enough, and the financial loss only adds to the stress. The cost of medical expenses, missed work, and hiring a caretaker (if necessary) can accumulate quickly and become overwhelming.
We believe that no one should face such challenges on their own. You may have the legal right to pursue compensation for what you’ve lost, and the back and spinal cord injury lawyers at Peter N. Davis & Associates can make sure you get every dollar you are due.
When you’ve been hurt by the carelessness of another, don’t let your suffering be ignored — lawyers will help you fight for the settlement you need.
Keeping It Simple
Dealing with your injuries has been difficult enough, so we want to make the rest of the process easier for you. With just a call or a click, you can schedule a free consultation from your couch!
Defending Your Legal Rights
You deserve to recover losses for injuries that were not your fault. We do everything we can to protect your rights and make sure you are fairly compensated.
Working For You
By operating on contingency, our law firm is able to provide expert legal services without charging anything upfront! That’s right — we never charge legal fees unless we win your case.
Back and Spinal Cord Injuries Can Be Devastating
Although the two are spoken of interchangeably, a back injury and a spinal cord injury are actually two different conditions. The spinal cord, specifically, is the bundle of nerves that stretches down through the vertebral bones which make up the spinal column in your back.
A spinal cord injury occurs when the spinal cord is damaged by direct trauma to the cord itself, or when the bones, soft tissues, and vessels surrounding it are damaged. This can cause weakness and loss of feeling at and below the point of injury. The symptoms you experience depend on where along the cord you are injured. The severity of the injury depends on whether the entire cord is severely injured (complete) or only partially injured (incomplete). The cord remains intact in most people who suffer a spinal cord injury. The most severe, non-fatal cases of spinal cord injury cause paralysis of the arms and legs (quadriplegia) and paralysis of the lower half of the body (paraplegia).
A back injury occurs to the bones of the spine (vertebrae), the cushioning discs between those bones, or the ligaments, muscles, or other soft tissues. One or more of the vertebrae can be broken without causing a spinal cord injury, but that doesn’t mean these injuries are any less painful. Sprained or strained ligaments and muscles, or damaged or irritated nerves in the back, can result in acute pain at the time of the injury or soon after. A torn or ruptured intervertebral disc causes sharp pain that may become chronic. If the tear in the disc is severe enough, the disc herniates and presses against (impinges upon) a nerve resulting in long-term pain and impairment.
Understanding the extent of impairment your car accident, work accident, or slip-and-fall accident caused is essential to your legal case and settlement. Our years of working with personal injury victims in New Jersey give us detailed insight into the devastating impact these injuries have on you and your family.
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