Spinal injury compensation claims

Understanding spinal cord injury 

Spinal injury is a broad term encompassing damage to the bones (vertebrae), discs, ligaments, and muscles of the spinal column. These can include fractures, dislocations, herniated discs, and sprains. While painful and debilitating, a spinal injury doesn’t always involve damage to the spinal cord itself. However, when the delicate spinal cord – the crucial pathway for communication between your brain and body – is damaged, it results in a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). An SCI can lead to a loss of function below the injury site, potentially causing paralysis (paraplegia or tetraplegia), loss of sensation, and impact on vital bodily functions. We have extensive experience with both complex spinal column injuries and life-changing spinal cord injuries.

The spinal cord is like a highway of nerves and its job is to relay messages from the brain to the body and back again. Damage to this information highway means the messages sent from the brain are not received by the body (and vice versa), resulting in the loss of feeling, function and movement in certain parts of the anatomy.

Spinal cord injuries are classified in two ways:

• how badly the spinal cord has been damaged (complete or incomplete)
• the specific location of the injury on the spinal cord