Common Injuries

  • Slip and Fall

    • Traumatic Brain Injury, Head Injury, Concussion
      A traumatic brain injury occurs when, upon impact in the car accident, your brain slams into your skull. There are varying degrees of traumatic brain injuries, from a concussion (which is a bruise on your brain) all the way to total brain death.
    • Spinal Cord Injuries
      A fall or slip that twists the spine can cause a disc to rupture, causing the softer inner portion of the disk to herniate. This creates pressure on the surrounding nerves, which can result in moderate to intense pain, tingling and numbness, and muscle weakness.
    • Sprained Ankles or Wrists
      The symptoms of a sprained wrist are similar to a sprained ankle — swelling, bruising, and tenderness. You may feel popping or tearing inside the joint, which likely means the tendon has torn.
    • Fractures
      A broken bone or fracture is the injury a fall victim is most likely to suffer. Falls often cause shoulder and forearm fractures, spine fractures, pelvic fractures and hip fractures.
    • Bruises
      The bruises and cuts you suffered when you slip and fall can appear severe but may be less serious than other injuries listed below. It’s not unusual to suffer bruises on your arms, legs, head or hips. However, these bruises aren’t always minor. Frequently, bruising and cuts hide more serious injuries below the skin.
    • Broken Hip
      A slip and fall victim will most likely experience pain from her fall. However, a hip fracture will create a much more intense pain that will be felt mainly in the hip or groin. No tolerance for weight. A sign of a hip fracture will be an inability to put any weight on the leg on the side of the injured hip.
    • Shoulder Injuries
      One of the most common types of injury that may occur after a fall is a dislocated shoulder. As the person attempts to stop the fall, the force of impact can easily dislocate the shoulder. A shoulder dislocation can be very painful, and if it is not quickly treated, it can lead to long-term complications.
    • Knee Injuries
      Bones like the kneecap may directly break and softer tissue, such as ligaments, cartilage, and tendons, can be torn, sprained, or inflamed after slipping. These are some of the most frequent knee injuries suffered from a slip or fall incident.
    • Cuts
      This includes severe cuts, broken teeth and jaw fractures, nose fractures, and eye injuries. In many cases, slip and fall accident victims will suffer facial injuries in addition to suffering a concussion or other form of TBI.

  • Car Accident

    • Traumatic Brain Injury
      A traumatic brain injury occurs when, upon impact in the car accident, your brain slams into your skull. There are varying degrees of traumatic brain injuries, from a concussion (which is a bruise on your brain) all the way to total brain death.
    • Broken Bones
      When you have a broken bone, caused by a car accident, you can have a closed fracture or an open fracture. A closed fracture means that your bone broke, but skin was not pierced, by the broken bone. An open fracture means that the bone broke and pierced the skin, causing a laceration.
    • Disc Herniation
      A herniated disc, sometimes called a slipped disc or ruptured disc, has suffered damage, causing a tear and allowing some of the fluid inside, to leak out. The impact from a car accident can cause a disc herniation.
    • Pinched Nerves
      Sometimes, herniated discs can extend out far enough to touch the nerves around them, causing pain, numbness, or weakness in your arms or legs.
    • Lacerations
      If the impact from the car accident is significant enough, windows and windshields can be shattered, throwing glass into the skin of the car accident victims. These pieces of glass pierce the skin and leave lacerations. Lacerations can also lead to scarring.
    • Contusions
      Contusions, also known as bruises or hematomas, are exploded blood vessels, under the skin. These occur in car accidents when the victims are thrown around inside the vehicle and their body parts slam against parts of the vehicle or the seatbelt or when the airbags explode into their chest or face.
    • Neck Strain
      A neck strain occurs when one or more fibers in a neck muscle or tendon stretches too far and tears. This is common in car accidents where the victim is hit from behind and their head is thrown forward, then backward, then forward, causing these torn fibers.
    • Next Sprain
      A neck sprain is a stretched ligament or muscle, in your neck. Neck sprains are more common in side impact car accidents, where the negligent driver slammed into the side of the victim’s car, throwing their head from side to side, stretching ligaments in the neck.
    • Back Strain
      A back strain occurs when muscles in the back are torn. The impact from a car accident throws the victim around in the car and tears the muscles in their back. It is very painful.
    • Back Sprain
      A back sprain occurs when ligaments in the back are torn. Back sprain is very painful and can take time to heal, since the back is part of the core of the body and it bears the body’s weights and holds it stable.
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