Spinal Cord Injury

North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Attorney

Your spinal cord is a cord of nerves running from your brain down the spine to your waist, and is protected by your neck and backbone. The spinal cord affects the nerves that control your sense of feeling and mobility. A spinal cord injury (SCI) therefore can impact your ability to feel or your ability to move all or parts of your body.

Depending on which part of the spinal cord is damaged, you can experience different losses of function or feeling. For example, if the area of the spinal cord around your neck is damaged, this could result in paralysis, such as paraplegia or quadriplegia.

It is also important to note that you do not need to have a broken back or broken neck to have damage to your spinal cord; likewise, a broken back or broken neck may not necessarily result in a spinal cord injury.

If you have a spinal cord injury, it is important that your lawyer understand the nature of your injury, the consequences, and the time and expenses involved in caring for spinal cord injury victim. Not all personal injury attorneys have this knowledge and may be at a disadvantage in representing your interests. For information to assist you in selecting the right attorney to represent you, please visit our How to Choose a Lawyer in a Serious Injury Case page.

At Charles G. Monnett III & Associates, our serious injury attorneys understand the consequences of a spinal cord injury. We understand the potential effects it can have on your whole family. Our goal is to work with medical specialists to fully understand the prognosis and full extent of the injury so we can seek appropriate compensation to cover past, present, and future expenses and special needs.

We only handle serious injury claims, and we have been successful for over 20 years at helping hundreds of accident victims and their families obtain full, fair, and just compensation for their injuries, including spinal cord injury. Chances are excellent that we have handled a claim similar to yours. We retain a legal nurse consultant, as well as have a full arsenal of medical experts and professionals to call upon. For additional information about our qualifications and the benefits of retaining our legal services, please visit our Firm Overview page.

Common Causes of Spinal Cord Injury

Any serious or high impact accident can damage your spinal cord. The following list is some of the more common causes of spinal cord injury:

• Car accidents
• Motorcycle accidents
• Truck accidents
• Bicycle accidents
• Pedestrian accidents
• Construction accidents
• Defective products
• Falls
• Collapsing walls
• Scaffolding accidents and ladder falls
• Vertebrae fractures
• Burst fractures
• Subluxation

To obtain more information about spinal cord injury and the effects on the whole family, or to discuss your particular situation, please schedule a free confidential consultation with an accident lawyer that understands spinal cord injury by calling us at 704-376-1911 in the Charlotte area or toll free at 1-800-977-3077, or filling out our intake form on our Contact Us page. We are dedicated to making sure you, and your family, obtain the compensation needed for your care.