Did you suffer a painful burst fracture when you fell from a high place at a construction site or in a motorcycle accident? You may have come to this Web page after your doctor gave you the diagnosis of a burst fracture. This means that a vertebra has broken and shattered into surrounding tissues — perhaps including your spinal cord.
Spinal Cord Burst Fractures in Santa Rosa
Before you heard the words "burst fracture," you simply knew that you were seriously injured after a traffic accident, an aviation accident or a boating accident. Now you have a term for your injury and can anticipate the long road of healing and adaptation that you face.
As your physician may have told you, your burst fracture is a type of traumatic injury that may or may not result in partial paralysis. Paraplegia may, in fact, already be your new reality. You were most likely hospitalized immediately after the accident. You may need (or may have had) surgery — perhaps a spinal fusion to permanently immobilize two or more vertebrae, helping to stabilize the area of the burst fracture injury.
If your doctor has not elected for surgery after your burst fracture, you may undergo non-surgical management of your injury. For example, you may wear a body brace for a couple of months or longer. If you are not paralyzed, you may undergo extensive physical therapy to learn to walk again using different muscles than you used before.
Both in the short term, in the long term and over the course of your lifetime, your burst fracture injury may drastically alter your lifestyle. You may cope with chronic pain. You may be unable to work or engage in your favorite pastimes anymore. Enjoying life as before will require creative adaptation. Your expenses and losses are many.
We're ready to help.
Contact a Santa Rosa Spinal Cord Injury Attorney Today!
For more than 40 years, the law firm of Shapiro, Galvin, Shapiro & Moran has represented accident victims, such as burst fracture victims, in Santa Rosa, San Francisco and the surrounding parts of California. We're ready to put our knowledge and experience to work for you.
Call the Santa Rosa attorneys at Shapiro, Galvin, Shapiro & Moran at 707-623-1184 or email us for your free case evaluation.
Free Case Evaluations for Spinal Cord Burst Fracture Victims in Santa Rosa
Our lawyers handle all burst fracture and other orthopedic injury cases on a contingency basis. We will only ask you to pay our fees if we are able to recover compensation for you.
Call the Santa Rosa attorneys at Shapiro, Galvin, Shapiro & Moran at 707-623-1184 or email us for your free case evaluation.
