Levels of Spinal Cord Injury Explained by Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer Eric Ratinoff

http://www.ericratinoff.com/practice-... Much like traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries create a profound impact on both the injured and his or her family. The hardship is felt through drastic physical changes that often involve a great deal of physical pain, as well as emotional trauma, financial hardship, and stress. Regardless of whether the spinal cord damage was caused by a major spinal injury due to an auto accident, workplace accident, fall or assault, or whether it was caused by a misdiagnosed tumor or degenerative disease, the resulting nerve damage can cause enormous dysfunction to the entire body. Depending on the location and degree of spinal injury, a spinal cord injury can even alter basic functions such as breathing, eating and sleeping. Unlike more visible parts of our bodies, the spinal cord is something we often take for granted. The nerve center that runs through the center of the spine, its job is to relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body. When it suffers injury, all nerves above the site of damage may continue functioning properly, while the nerves below the area of injury suffer a decreased ability to send messages back and forth from the brain to the rest of the body. Finding the Right Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer The best personal injury attorneys work hard to obtain excellent results for their injured clients to enable them to seek out the resources they need for maximum recovery. Because damage to the spinal cord can affect so many different functions of the body, this requires rehabilitation facilities and care providers who specialize in spinal cord injury. It's important to hire an attorney with experience handling spinal cord injury cases, who has the understanding and resources to help point the injured client in the right direction. Our spinal cord injury attorneys have taken on big corporations, insurance companies and other defendants and held them accountable for both economic and non-economic damages their negligent or careless acts caused. We have over twenty years of experience representing clients who have been seriously injured, and have obtained numerous jury verdicts and settlements on their behalf. Eric Ratinoff has taken part in achieving exceptional results on behalf of spinal cord injury survivors, including: $7.6 million spinal cord injury jury verdict on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to U.C. Davis Medical Center's failure to diagnose a tumor on her thoracic spine. $1.1 million in a chiropractic malpractice case in which the plaintiff's chiropractor failed to diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome, resulting in permanent paralysis. If you have a legal question pertaining to a spinal cord injury, we will gladly meet you at your location to discuss your case free of charge or obligation. For a free and confidential case evaluation, call 866-527-4278 or fill out the contact form on this page.