Severe Injuries Can Happen Anytime

Severe Injuries Can Happen Anytime

 

Whether you’re out for your morning bike ride, traveling across country, visiting a clients’ office or visiting a friend, severe injuries can happen at any time. Severe injuries are more than a sprained ankle. They can require long bouts of rehabilitation and, in many situations, can mean a permanent disability or disfigurement.

To help you better understand what is considered a serious or severe injury, here are some of the major categories.

Dog Bite Injuries

Every dog bites someone at some time. Generally, these are just nips when playing. However, for some breeds, their natural instincts seem to be stronger and the need to actually attack can happen more frequently. No doubt, you’ve read news articles about Pit Bulls maiming and killing children. Rottweilers have also come under fire as being extremely aggressive and dangerous around children and the elderly. Dog bite injuries can range from a serious bite that breaks the skin and perhaps punctures an artery to tearing of the skin requiring plastic surgery to death.

Back Injuries

You can injure your back just by picking up a suitcase the wrong way. For this discussion, however, the back injuries generally occur as a result of a serious slip and fall, a motor vehicle accident or an on-the-job injury (i.e., construction site). Injuries can range from a slipped or herniated disk to compression fractures to spinal cord damage. The prognosis can be just as grim. Long-term physical therapy, surgery or even life in a wheelchair for someone suffering from a back injury is quite common.

Neck Injuries

Your neck is one of the most vulnerable parts of your body. It sits atop your spine and, with the help of the surrounding muscles, tendons and ligaments, you’re able to swivel and turn your head to see everything happening around you. Since it is so vulnerable, the neck can easily be damaged in a car accident. Everything from a minor soreness to whiplash or a serious snapping of the neck too far back or too far forward can result in expensive medical bills and even rehabilitation, both for the short term and life-long.

Brain Injuries

The brain is just as delicate an organ as it is a complex machine. When that machine gets handled poorly, the results can be devastating. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can result from closed and open injuries to the head. An open injury occurs when the skull and brain are penetrated. A closed injury happens when there is no penetration to the skull or brain, but the head is violently shaken or jostled. In some cases, you can suffer from brain damage on the inside and not show any outward signs of your injury. You may have fatigue, poor memory, difficulty sleeping, blurred vision, for example. In other cases, your brain injury can cause changes in mood, irritability, blurred vision, loss of balance, compromised senses (i.e., smell, taste), or physical limitations resulting in the need for a walker or confinement to a wheelchair.

Naturally, these aren’t the only types of serious or severe injuries, but they among the most common. With any severe injury, there will be accompanying medical bills that will be expensive and they can be long-life, depending on the type and extent of the injury.

Once you’ve gotten the proper medical attention, you want to be sure to find a very skilled and qualified attorney to help ensure your rights as the victim of a serious or severe injury are not overlooked. While it may have taken moments for the injury to occur, the healing may last a lifetime.

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