Amputation Injury
Fairmont Amputation Lawyers & Attorneys
Amputation is defined as the loss of a limb. Smaller appendages such as fingers and toes can be amputated in accidents and, in more severe cases, arms and legs can be amputated.
When an accident occurs and amputation in the result, the injured individual never asked to lose a part of themselves. This results in lifelong disability. Even if amputation consists of a finger or a toe, the affected hand or foot will never function properly again and we all know that we need our hands and feet to be 100% intact for us to be 100% functional.
Reasons For Amputation Injury
There are a number of reasons as to why amputation injury may occur. Those reasons include the following:
- Negligence of another person
- Medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle accidents (cars and trucks)
- Faulty products
- Pedestrian accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
The consequences of amputation injury include physical constraints as well as emotional ones. And although money can never solve all of your problems, it can take care of medical expenses, lost wages, and other expenses that have been incurred due to the amputation. To do this, you need an amputation injury attorney to help you.
Individuals who experience amputations also experience a number of consequences that include phantom pain, infection, inadequate wound healing, joint deformity, severe bruising (hematoma), death of skin flaps (necrosis), stiffness, and much more.
About Amputation Injury
There are some cases in which amputation occurs as a result of blood vessels becoming damaged, which leads to tissue death. This tissue death can then lead to infection. If this infection is not addressed aggressively, the infection can spread throughout the body and ultimately lead to death. Sometimes the only way to keep the infection from spreading is by amputating the affected limb.
Your amputation injury attorney has seen many causes of amputation injury. Traumatic amputations, which are usually the result of accidents, result in the surgeon having to remove fragmented bone and any affected tissue. Any uneven areas upon the bone needs to be smoothed out to avoid any irritation when prosthetic devices are used. Temporary drains may also be in place to drain any fluids and blood that may accumulate
Furthermore, the process of making the aftermath of amputation more comfortable includes dividing muscles to contour the limb and dividing the nerves to minimize pain.
Contact Frentz & Frentz Law Offices today
An amputation injury lawyer will evaluate your case, look at the pain and suffering you’ve been through, evaluate the medical expenses that have been incurred and will then provide you with aggressive and caring representation. Although you are the same person, you may feel like less of a person even though you are not. But what you need is compensation when the amputation was in no way your fault.
To get started, contact Frentz and Frentz at 507-345-4505 or toll free at 1-800-450-4505. Your injury is one that you have to live with for the rest of your life, but you shouldn’t have to deal with the financial ramifications for the rest of your life. We also don’t get paid until you get paid. That’s how confident we are.