Advice On Claiming Compensation For A Long Term Disability

Whenever an accident victim has sustained a long term disability, that same victim deserves compensation for 2 types of injuries. Some of the injuries disrupted the victim’s life from the moment of the accident. Others developed over time, and became disruptive complications.

Some examples of disruptive complications:

• Injured patient placed in a cast boot, which causes the patient’s muscles to atrophy, while diminishing the level of blood flow in the same patient’s body.
• A patient recovering from an operation must be immobilized, causing constriction of the patient’s muscles, along with a wasting of the muscular tissues.
• A doctor puts a patient on prolonged bed rest. The resting patient suffers a reduction in the muscles’ strength, along with permanent changes to the nerves and muscles. In addition, the measurable bone density diminishes.
• An accident victim in pain assumes a static posture. The effects that result from assumption of such a posture copy those that are associated with the typical response to immobilization.

Can an accident victim get compensated for such complications?

The victim’s ability to get compensated for injury-related complications reflects the victim’s ability to prove that the accident-caused injury and the resulting immobilization trigger development of the specified complications.

The lawyer’s role in the quest for fair compensation:

A client with a long term disability needs an attorney that can collect medical evidence. Such evidence must offer support for any claimed link between the immobilization of a given accident victim and the appearance of a disruptive complication.

For instance, if an immobilized victim develops bedsores, the victim’s attorney must search for an expert, someone that can testify to the linkage between the recovering patient’s static position and the formation of the bed sores. The same attorney would look at the client’s/victim’s old medical records, to show that the same client did not have such sores before being forced to recover in bed.

If a lawyer’s client suffered unrelenting pain, and if that caused the same client to assume a static posture, the lawyer might snap pictures of the client’s strange poses. Those pictures could be examined by a medical expert, and used to obtain testimony, regarding the effects of such strangely-positioned poses.

Finally, a medical expert might help a lawyer to show a jury what happens to an immobilized muscle. It gets constricted, and fails to receive an adequate level of blood flow. In the absence of a normal blood flow, that constricted muscle fails to receive a sufficient percentage of the nutrients that have entered the patient’s bloodstream.

Those stand as a few examples of what any one Personal Injury Lawyer in Waterloo can accomplish, after striving to provide a disabled client with an award that equals the size of a fair compensation.