Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer

Our Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer staff at Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC has seen first-hand the consequences of a life-changing spinal injury. Our findings show that 15,000 people in the US suffer from traumatic spinal injury. Additionally, nearly 10,000 of those who are injured are either permanently disabled or die from their injury.

Because these injuries can be so severe, victims and their families can easily be overcome in despair. Having our experienced Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer group working for you can be an important first step on the road to getting your life back in the right direction.

According to the medical community, a spinal cord injury results in the destruction of cells within the spinal cord or damage to the nerves that transmit signals back and forth through the spinal cord. When either of these things happen, the result can be paralysis, such as paraplegia or quadriplegia.

Our New York Spinal Injury Lawyer at Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC states that while there are a multitude of causes for a spinal injury, the most common causes involve mistakes made during surgery, physical assault, injury sustained during birth, a motorcycle accident, a car accident, a workplace accident and a slip and fall accident. Many of these incidents are the direct cause of another person's or entity's carelessness. If you are suffering the effects of a spinal injury that may have been caused by another party, contact our Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer team to see what legal options are open to you.

There are many actions that can lead to a serious spinal injury. While most injuries are caused by violent collisions resulting from an auto accident, slip and fall accident or workplace accident, some injuries are caused by everyday tasks, such as simply bending over to tie your shoes. Victims of injury including cervical spinal fracture or lumbar spinal injury can experience paraparesis, which is when the legs become weak to the point that they no longer function. Additionally, victims of this type of injury can also experience hemiplegia, which is loss of function of one side of the body, or permanent paralysis. Injuries to the spine almost always require immediate medical attention, both to reduce the aftereffects of the injury and to expedite recovery time. If you failed to get fast medical attention after your spinal injury because of slow EMT or other emergency responders, or as a result of inattentive physicians, contact our Suffolk County Medical Malpractice Lawyer staff at Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC to inquire about filing a medical malpractice case.

There are many different treatments for spinal injury and each is contingent on the type of injury a person has sustained. Some injuries only require medication and rest, while others require surgical techniques, such as decompression laminectomy or vertebral fusion.

Additionally, a spinal injury like thoracic spinal injury or thoracic fracture can lead to a victim sustaining life-altering physical impairment. This impairment can manifest itself in loss of motor function, loss of bowel/bladder function, loss of respiratory function and loss of blood pressure regulation.

While the physical toll is easy to measure, a spinal injury can lead to serious emotional trauma that can be much tougher to gauge and even tougher to treat. In cases where permanent paralysis is involved, it is easy for the victim to become hopeless, depressed and overwhelmed. Additionally, the financial toll taken on individuals and their families can push people to their limits. Every Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer working with us at Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC understands the effects of these injuries and works hard to help victims get the compensation they need to get their lives back on track.

While injuries to the spine can change a person's life forever, it is only one type of injury that can be caused by another individual's or party's negligence. An auto accident, motorcycle accident, a construction accident and a slip and fall can also result in  brain damage or wrongful death.

If your spinal injury or other injury has been the result of another's negligent actions, calling our New York Injury Lawyer staff can be a decisive first step to getting you the financial damages you need. If you or a loved one is suffering from the effects of a traumatic spinal injury, call our Suffolk County Spinal Injury Lawyer team at Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC to discuss what legal avenues are open to you. Whether you are dealing with spinal cord injury, spinal cord damage, thoracic spinal fracture, lumbar fracture, herniated disk, bulging disk, quadriplegia, paraplegia or other spinal injury, let us help you put your life back together. Please call us at 800.696.9529, online or contact one of our New York City offices in Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens, the Bronx or Brooklyn, our New York office in Westchester County or one of our Long Island offices in Nassau County or Suffolk County.