San Diego Injury Attorneys

Types of Injury

As San Diego injury lawyers we have seen injuries can range from relatively minor to life-threatening. Loss of limbs or amputations are unfortunately occur more frequently. If this has happened to you, we have provided a brief guide below on how to proceed after this unfortunate injury.

Injuries caused by others are often more severe than injuries caused by yourself because the victim was unable to prepare for the possibility of an injury occurring.

After such occurance, the first thing you may need to do is decide upon medical care and rehabilitation. In this advanced age, we are fortunate to where bionic devices or surgical replacement are available. With rehabilitation, you may be able to resume to resume the day to day functions of your life prior to the accident.

• Head Injury - A head injury is another type of injury that can go undiscovered for years, but can also create a lifetime of financial, physical, mental and emotional difficulties.


• Brain Injury - Brain injuries can occur in any setting, and perhaps the most troubling aspects of these types of injuries are that they can take an undetermined amount of time to manifest themselves and dealing with brain injuries in a medical sense remains a mystery in many situations.


• Back Injury - Back injuries are perhaps the most confusing types of injuries in the medical field. What begins as a harmless injury can lead to a lifetime of injuries including permanent wheelchair placement.


• Spinal Cord Injury - Spinal cord injuries can be not only severe, but life-changing in terms of their results and prognoses. Almost any spinal cord injury can leave the victim unable to walk, move or even function normally on the most basic level.


• Broken Bones - Broken Bones are one of the most common forms of personal injury. These injuries generally range from minor, as in a broken finger or toe to multiple breaks that are life changing.


• Paralysis - Paralysis is a general medical term that is generally defined by the inability to move or use certain parts of the body. Often, this condition is caused by another person or act which makes legal involvement neessary. Two specific types of paralysis are paraplegia and quadroplegia, or permanent conditions resulting from injuries to the spinal cord.


• Amputations (Loss of Limb) - Generally, amputations or loss of limbs are a direct result of another severe injury. Limbs can be removed because of keeping it may cause further distress and injury, a central artery was severed in an accident, or simply doctors are unable to save that limb.


• Blindness (Loss of Vision) - Blindness can result from several different specific injuries, including those to the eyes and the brain, among others.


• Deafness (Loss of Hearing) - Deafness or loss of hearing is most often a permanent, life-changing condition. In terms of its importance, the sense of hearing is often overlooked, but if take a moment to consider just how important the ability to hear is.


• RSD/CRPS - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy(RSD) and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CPRS) symptoms include persistent and acute pain in an area that has been injured. Unfortunately, there is no known cure for either condition, which means that suffering from RSD/CPRS will most likely span lifetime.


• Wrongful Death - Obviously, a death that's caused by another person's actions or failure to act is the ultimate injury to suffer through no fault of one's own, and the family is left to suffer the long-term consequences.


• Burn Injury - Burn injuries are not only difficult to treat, but also can regularly cause extreme pain and discomfort for years.

In any case of injury that appears above or any other that is a result of someone else's actions, contact us, as San Diego injury lawyers as soon as possible to schedule an initial consultation.