Rutland, Vermont Neck & Back Injuries Attorneys

Rutland, VT Neck & Back Injuries Attorneys

Suffering any type of injury can be incredibly frustrating, painful, and disabling, but back and neck injuries can be especially burdensome. At the law office of Larson & Gallivan Law, our Rutland, Vermont neck and back injury lawyers know how debilitating these injury types are, and are here to help you recover compensation if your back or neck injury was caused by another’s negligence. To learn more about how we can help you, call our law office directly today.

Vermonters and those who visit Vermont usually enjoy a great deal of safety on the roads and recreational opportunities the state offers. But sometimes, individuals or businesses ignore the safety rules and cause neck and back injuries. In those cases, we want to help.

Common Types of Neck and Back Injuries

Back and neck injuries can take many forms. Common types of neck and back injuries include:

Soft tissue injuries.

Soft tissue injuries refer to sprains and strains and might include a pulled muscle in the back, a whiplash injury, or a neck sprain. These types of injuries can cause shooting or burning pain, but also stiffness, soreness, and difficulty moving the neck.

Many soft tissue injuries, while painful and temporarily disabling, do heal fully with time with minimal intervention, and for those types of injuries, treatment for soft tissue injuries is usually pain relief and temporary immobilization. Most of the time, this means a neck brace, over-the-counter pain medication, and maybe physical therapy. However, the neck and spine are complicated, and sometimes pain and immobility persist over time.

At Larson & Gallivan Law, we do still represent people who have soft tissue injuries. We believe that justice is important even for injured people who can’t point to an image on an x-ray to show a broken bone, but still have pain and mobility problems – that are sometimes lasting and debilitating. Many lawyers don’t take soft tissue cases anymore, but we do. Call us.

Disc injuries.

A common injury to the back or neck is an injury to the soft discs that cushion the spine.

We’ve all heard of a “ruptured disc”, which is a way of saying that an injury caused one of the vertebral discs to tear or puncture. This is also called a “herniated” disc. Because the discs are fibrous pillows filled with a jelly-like substance, a leaking or torn disc deflates and can cause the bony vertebrae and nerve endings to be impacted.

Often, injured vertebral discs do not heal as well as we wish. Sometimes they require surgery to minimize the impact of the injury on the tender nerves that exit through the vertebrae. At Larson & Gallivan Law, we work with spine doctors and the medical community regularly with people who have injured their vertebrae and herniated discs either in negligence cases such as car accidents or because of work injuries.

Bone fracture injuries.

Bone fractures in the back and neck are very serious and usually refer to fractures of the vertebrae that run the length of the spine. Bone fracture injuries not only take a long time to heal but can be very dangerous if not treated properly.

When a person has a back or neck injury, the risk of a broken vertebra is high, and the danger is that the unprotected spinal cord could be damaged. It’s for this reason that an injured person’s neck should be braced by a professional before moving someone who may have a neck or back injury.

When we have a client with a broken spinal bone, usually a vertebra, we know we are in for a long recovery and we are dealing with a significant legal claim. At Larson & Gallivan Law, we’re prepared to go the distance with you as you seek treatment, sometimes a career change, and other life changes due to an injury of this type. We are armed and prepared to assist you in seeking compensation for these types of injuries, and will bring readiness for a fight along with compassion for the challenges faced by our clients with fracture injuries.

Spinal cord injuries.

One of the most serious types of back and neck injury is a spinal cord injury, which refers to an injury where the spinal cord–which runs the length of the spine and is responsible for sending messages between the brain and the rest of the body–is damaged, interrupting the brain’s ability to communicate with any parts of the body below the injury site. Spinal cord injuries are often permanent and can cause partial or complete paralysis.

A spinal cord injury is one of the most life-changing injuries we deal with here at Larson & Gallivan Law. We’ve worked with people who have mobility problems, work problems, and dexterity problems due to an injured spinal cord, so we have experience dealing with this type of injury.

Causes of Neck and Back Injuries