Herniated Disc Injury Law Firm
Toronto and York Region Lawyer for Spinal Injuries: Herniated Disc and Vertebra Injury
We are an Ontario personal injury law firm that represents spinal injury victims. Our Ontario personal injury law firm handle cases involving spinal cord injury that result in fractures or dislocation of the vertebrae in the neck or other part of the spine. Spinal injuries can result in herniated discs, which put pressure on the nerves that run along the spinal cord. A large number of Ontario spinal cord injuries result from car accidents, truck accidents or motorcycle accidents.
Herniated Disc Personal Injury Lawyer
The spinal discs are the cushions or shock absorbers in between the vertebrae of the spinal column. Spinal discs are filled with fluid. A herniated disc occurrs when a disc is damaged, and it may either bulge or break open. This can result in disc material spilling out onto a nerve root. If the inner disc material pushes on a nerve, it causes pain that travels through the body. The pain from a herniated disc injury can be severe and debilitating.
The location and path of the radiating pain depends on what level of the spine in which the disc herniation occurs. When someone sustains a herniated disc injury, the pain is not in the disc area itself. The disc herniation impinges upon a nerve in the spine that causes radicular pain. This radicular pain may be described as a pain that shoots through the body, usually to one area.
Herniated discs may be difficult to diagnose, because the disc is not well visualized on an x-ray. As such, herniated discs are rarely diagnosed in the emergency room after an auto accident, as most hospitals will routinely order only an x-ray to rule out fractures. If your doctor suspects a herniated disc, he or she will typically order a CT scan or (MRI).
The location and path of the radiating pain depends on what level of the spine in which the disc herniation occurs. When someone sustains a herniated disc injury, the pain is not in the disc area itself. The disc herniation impinges upon a nerve in the spine that causes radicular pain. This radicular pain may be described as a pain that shoots through the body, usually to one area.
Herniated discs may be difficult to diagnose, because the disc is not well visualized on an x-ray. As such, herniated discs are rarely diagnosed in the emergency room after an auto accident, as most hospitals will routinely order only an x-ray to rule out fractures. If your doctor suspects a herniated disc, he or she will typically order a CT scan or (MRI).
Contact An Ontario Personal Injury Lawyer
If you have suffered a cervical or lumbar herniated disc as the result of a car accident, truck accident or slip and fall accident, speak with a Ontario personal injury lawyer that understands the medicine and mechanism of injury in herniated disc cases. Call Iacobelli Law Firm for a free no obligation consultation. Our law firm has office locations in York Region and Toronto, and we hadle serious herniated disc injury claims throughout Ontario. Call us at 416-900-1070 or toll free at 1-866-234-6093 or fill out or online contact form here.
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