Levels of Spinal Cord Injury Explained by Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer Eric Ratinoff

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Much like traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries create a profound impact on both the injured and his or her family. The hardship is felt through drastic physical changes that often involve a great deal of physical pain, as well as emotional trauma, financial hardship, and stress. Regardless of whether the spinal cord damage was caused by a major spinal injury due to an auto accident, workplace accident, fall or assault, or whether it was caused by a misdiagnosed tumor or degenerative disease, the resulting nerve damage can cause enormous dysfunction to the entire body. Depending on the location and degree of spinal injury, a spinal cord injury can even alter basic functions such as breathing, eating and sleeping.
Unlike more visible parts of our bodies, the spinal cord is something we often take for granted. The nerve center that runs through the center of the spine, its job is to relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body. When it suffers injury, all nerves above the site of damage may continue functioning properly, while the nerves below the area of injury suffer a decreased ability to send messages back and forth from the brain to the rest of the body.
Finding the Right Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer
The best personal injury attorneys work hard to obtain excellent results for their injured clients to enable them to seek out the resources they need for maximum recovery. Because damage to the spinal cord can affect so many different functions of the body, this requires rehabilitation facilities and care providers who specialize in spinal cord injury. It's important to hire an attorney with experience handling spinal cord injury cases, who has the understanding and resources to help point the injured client in the right direction.
Our spinal cord injury attorneys have taken on big corporations, insurance companies and other defendants and held them accountable for both economic and non-economic damages their negligent or careless acts caused. We have over twenty years of experience representing clients who have been seriously injured, and have obtained numerous jury verdicts and settlements on their behalf.
Eric Ratinoff has taken part in achieving exceptional results on behalf of spinal cord injury survivors, including:
$7.6 million spinal cord injury jury verdict on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to U.C. Davis Medical Center's failure to diagnose a tumor on her thoracic spine.
$1.1 million in a chiropractic malpractice case in which the plaintiff's chiropractor failed to diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome, resulting in permanent paralysis.
If you have a legal question pertaining to a spinal cord injury, we will gladly meet you at your location to discuss your case free of charge or obligation. For a free and confidential case evaluation, call 866-527-4278 or fill out the contact form on this page.

[@annmcintire8888]

Very informative video. You made a complex subject accessible and easy to understand. I have severe sensory loss, nerve pain, bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction following removal of an ependymoma spinal cord tumor at L2-L3 in 2012. My surgeon never explained everything below the level of injury would be affected. He only thought my foot would be numb, because he had to cut a peripheral nerve to remove the tumor. It took going to several doctors to finally be told that a spinal cord injury results in loss of sensory and/or motor damage below the injury level. In addition to the severed nerve, doctors surmise that my condition is caused by adhesions (scar tissue), CSF pooling, tethering of the cauda equina. I wish I never had the surgery, because all I had was back pain pre-surgery. However, I was told the tumor would continue to grow eventually resulting in paralysis. I had to use a catheter for 3 years post surgery. Then, one day I was suddenly able to pee on my own again. However. I still can't feel most of my left foot and leg, and I have severe nerve pain. You never really realize how critical a healthy spinal cord is until you injure it.

[@mathewmathew8752]

Very good teacher

[@gloriacampos3692]

Love how you break things down part by part. True you didn't mention the sacral, but you did say 3 main parts. I would love to watch a part two for this video going more into depth of the loss of function depending on the level of where the injury occurs.

[@balumanoharr8553]

Excellent video, appreciate the way you explain,

[@SV-kp2th]

Very well explained and very informative.

[@cpchick81]

I was born with spastic quad CP and hydrocephalus so know all about CSF. I have cervical scoliosis, kyphosis and lordosis. Good video

[@candycrush863]

Thank u

[@takhellambamibungo9015]

Sir. What is spinal cord injury medicine. I am spinal cord injury. From, India North East. Manipur

[@mariyahosokawa390]

Godbless

[@natalieelizabeth4864]

There is no L6! It's L5-S1 you neglected to mention the sacral spine.

[@shanarasmith7705]

I am so glad you said that. I was wondering why it was not mentioned as well. The other information provided was broken down well.

[@lululove6175]

My condition is in sacral spine…..Tarlov cysts which you never heard of because your a lawyer.

[@alexissutton768]

Accident exclamation exclamation exclamation Happy Face

[@dashti_warna6119]

why its so complicated? still scientists not have been able to cure .

[@mdjamal-wf2zy]

I'm spinal coed injury,

[@claudiuc.2624]

9:45 I know what it is! It is a mermaid
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[@takhellambamibungo9015]

Sir. I am spinal cord injury. What is spinal cord injury medicine? India North East. Manipir