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Back and Spinal Injury Claims

Back Injury Claims - Spine Injuries - Herniated Discs

If you or someone in your family has suffered a severe back injury, spinal cord damage, or neck trauma to the cervical spine, contact Sacramento personal injury attorney David A. Asch for a free consultation about your alternatives. The physical consequences of a back injury can range from pain and loss of motion to permanent disability. Whatever your symptoms might be, the Law Office of David A. Asch can help you define your objectives in back injury litigation and achieve your recovery goals.

Relatively minor motor vehicle accidents, especially those involving rear-end collisions at low speeds, can cause deceptively severe back and neck problems. Insurance companies may use the acronym “MIST,” which stands for Minimal Impact Soft Tissue. They seek to classify injuries as minor whenever they can. Serious pain and range of motion loss might not appear as symptoms until weeks after the accident, when scar tissue grows over microscopic tears in damaged back, neck, or disc tissue. We can help you get the information and medical or chiropractic treatment you need to promote your physical recovery while we're working on the presentation of your claim for money damages.

The threat of permanent disability or paralysis arises whenever accident trauma results in damage to the vertebrae and the spinal cord. Spine injuries must be treated immediately and properly in order to minimize the loss of neurological function caused by damage to the central nervous system. Bone splinters from fractured or crushed vertebrae can aggravate damage to the spinal cord itself with the consequence of paraplegia or quadriplegia; the higher on the spine the injury, the more extensive the paralysis is likely to be.

Severe back injuries or catastrophic spinal cord damage can result from any of the following causes:

With nearly 20 years of personal injury litigation experience, California accident compensation lawyer David Asch knows how to investigate, document, and present claims for compensation in back or spinal cord injury cases. For a free consultation about your legal rights and strategic options, contact the Law Office of David A. Asch in Sacramento.