Neck Injury and Sports Injury Compensation Claims

An introduction to neck injury compensation claims and neck injury

If you have suffered from a neck injury due to an accident that wasn’t your fault, then we can help assess whether you can make a valid neck injury claim and get the compensation you deserve.

The human neck is critically important and contains a number of major bones, nerves and blood vessels.

Given that it’s essentially a rather thin tube with a fairly heavy object at one end of it (your head) then it’s clear how it may be easily damaged.

That’s because if your head is moving rapidly in one direction and then suddenly stops or changes direction, the forces applied to your neck may be severe.

Whiplash injury claims

This is essentially describing one form of common neck injury sustained in many forms of accident but particularly road traffic accidents. It’s often referred to as a whiplash injury. If you have been involved in a car accident in the last three years that wasn’t your fault, you may be able to claim whiplash compensation via a neck injury claim – so why not get in touch?

Other neck injuries

Of course, your neck may be injured in other ways.

Falls may result in your neck being subjected to unusual forces or angles that it just isn’t designed to cope with.

Heavy blows to the neck may also result in injury as they may to any part of your body. However, in the case of the neck, its relatively soft nature and the convergence of a number of key nerves, blood vessels, muscles and spinal components, may mean that even relatively minor blows can have consequences.

The effects of neck injuries

Health care professionals typically regard all neck injuries as being potentially extremely serious until such time as they have been examined and diagnosed.

Some injuries to the neck may result in fatalities.

In other severe cases they may result in permanent or severe forms of paralysis or other loss of bodily function.

Fortunately, in the majority of cases, the effects are less grave but they may still result in:

• tingling in parts of the body, arms or legs
• numbness in some body areas
• difficulty in precise motor control of hands and fingers
• headaches
• difficulty sleeping
• neck aches and back aches
• dizziness
• etc.

The effects may be short or long term and ongoing medical attention may be required including medication and physiotherapy. You may be unable to work or have to spend money out of your own pocket in order to attend physiotherapy and other associated medical appointments. We don’t think this is fair.

Compensation

If your injury arose through an accident that was not your fault, the responsible party may be liable to pay you neck injury compensation.

In the case of neck and other injuries, you may be able to obtain compensation for:

• medical treatment
• ancillary expenses (e.g. travel costs to physiotherapy etc)
• clothing allowances if you are forced to buy special clothes to accommodate braces etc
• a loss of earnings if your injury is stopping you from working
• etc.

Understanding the full impact of your injuries in legal terms as opposed to purely medical, is a job for legal specialists such as ourselves.

So, if you are suffering from whiplash injury or other neck injury caused as a result of an accident, then why not speak to us? At Accident Lawyers 4U, we can give you a free, provisional assessment of your eligibility for claiming whiplash compensation or other neck injury compensation. We have many years’ experience of winning neck injury claims and obtaining often substantial neck injury compensation for our clients, so why not get in touch?

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