Spinal Cord Injury Information

Tire Defect Attorney Rob Ammons Files Lawsuit Against Michelin on Behalf of Injured Woman After Tire Failure
April 28, 2011 Houston, Tx: According to the lawsuit filed in Arizona Superior Court, an Arizona woman was driving her Ford Explorer Sport Trac in New Mexico when the left rear wheel Michelin tire experienced a tread separation. As a result of the tread separation failure, control of the Sport Trac was lost and during rollover the woman sustained a serious spinal injury that necessitated emergency surgery and lengthy rehabilitation... read more

Accident Attorney Settles Suit Against Driver and Metals Supply Company Accident Incapacitates 88-Year-Old
March 10, 2011, Houston: Armando Mendoza was driving his Volvo southbound in the far left lane of North Wayside Drive on a rainy morning in July 2009. As Mendoza approached the 400 block, Milford McGruder pulled out of a private drive in a commercial tractor-trailer and failed to yield the right of way. The cab of the tractor-trailer made it safely across three lanes, but the trailer portion still obstructed the left lane, when Mendoza's vehicle and the trailer collided... read more

KPRC Interviews Ammons Law Firm's Bennett Midlo About an SUV Seatback Lawsuit
KPRC Robert Arnold, March 17, 2011: Ammons Law Firm personal injury attorney Bennett Midlo invetigates how many SUVs could be at risk for a dangerous defect. Midlo carefully examines a warehouse full of SUV seats. Each seat is part of a larger investigation to what caused a violent crash... read more

Seatbelt Defect Lawyer Rob Ammons Files Lawsuit Against Toyota After Accident
February 6, 2011 Houston, Tx.: Accident attorney Rob Ammons filed a lawsuit on behalf of a woman seriously injured after her seat belt failed during a collision. After the accident, according to the lawsuit, Sue Rodriguez sustained serious injuries... read more

Seat Belt Failure Results in Quadriplegia, Lawsuit
December 13, 2010 Houston, Tx.: Seat belt defect attorney Rob Ammons of the Ammons Law Firm is suing Chrysler Group LLC after a seat belt in a 2008 Chrysler 300 failed during a car accident...read more

Patient Rights for SCI survivors
For patients who have suffered spinal cord injuries, the appropriate reaction to medical malpractice can vary. Spinal cord injuries are already traumatic, without the addition of unfortunate medical accidents. The best way to protect you and your loved ones from receiving substandard care is by being a proactive, educated consumer who is willing to exercise their rights as a patient....read more

Important information for new spinal cord injury survivors
Surviving a spinal cord injury can be as emotionally challenging for the victims friends and family as it can be for the victim. There are several factors that will influence recovery such as: the speed and quality of care, how soon following an injury is a person is immobilized as well as the type and amount of physical therapy the survivor receives....read more

Adjusting to life with spinal cord injury (SCI)
With SCI, adjustment is defined as adapting to a new condition. We all are forced to make adjustments during our lifetime. Some of these adjustments may be planned and we have time to think about how we are going to react to the situation. Adjustments to living with spinal cord injury, SCI include a decrease in household income along with a significant increase in medical expenses....read more

The Aftermath & Diagnosis of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
The emotional and physical resulting from a spinal cord injury (SCI) can be overwhelming. The loss of spinal cord function can cause a loss in both motor and sensory functions and have an effect on things like autonomous activities, like breathing and thought-driven actions such as driving....read more

Advances in Spinal Cord Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation for spinal cord injuries can be extremely lengthy and expensive as well. There are enormous costs associated with treatment and rehab, which is advancing each year. As rehabilitation for these types of injuries advances, there are more costs associated with obtaining the treatments, causing great financial strain for most patients....read more

Automobile Accidents - The Leading Cause of Spinal Cord Injury
While on the decline, vehicle accidents still account for the majority of spinal cord injury (SCI) in the United States, at an estimated 36% of all cases. These injuries can vary in severity, but most often they lead to paralysis: either paraplegia, which is paralysis of two limbs (usually the legs from the waist down), or quadriplegia, which is paralysis of all four limbs, usually from the neck down....read more

Complete and Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
When it comes to spinal cord injury (SCI), doctors use many different classification systems. A spinal cord injury lawyer takes these diagnoses under consideration when preparing an SCI lawsuit. One classification that is crucial to SCI law is the description of a spinal injury as "complete" or "incomplete." The difference between a complete and an incomplete SCI could be the difference between a medical malpractice lawsuit and having no case at all....read more

Fitness Important for Spinal Cord Injury Care
The seriousness of spinal cord injury ranges from temporary paralysis to permanent paraplegia or quadriplegia. Regardless of the severity of the injury, fitness plays a critical role in recovering from and living with a spinal cord injury....read more

Paraplegia - Paralysis of the Lower Body
Paraplegia is defined as the impairment of the lower extremities of the human body, which includes the legs and the internal organs below the waist, caused by an injury to the lower area of the central nervous system or the spinal cord. This affects motor and sensory operations, causing often-debilitating conditions....read more

Roof Crush Accidents and Spinal Cord Injury
During a roof crush accident, the strength of the roof in relation to the weight of the vehicle is a major factor determining whether occupants will sustain a serious injury during a rollover accident. The stronger the roof, the less likely that it will intrude into the passenger compartment and causing spinal cord injury....read more

Seat Belt Failure & Spinal Cord Injury
For the most part, we put trust in our seat belts not to fail us if we were to be in an accident. Unfortunately, there is a large number of vehicles on the road that have defective seat belts. Even more unfortunate, is that much of the auto industry has known about these defects for many years....read more

Spinal Cord Injury & Bowel Problems
Any class of spinal cord injury can lead to lingering impairment, regardless of whether the spinal column is irreversibly damaged. The majority of injuries on the spine heal with time. Usually, damage to the actual spinal cord itself entails contusion, compression, lacerations, and CCS (also called central cord syndrome)....read more

Understanding Spinal Cord Injury
About 200,000 people worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury. The number of injuries that occur each year is alarming. Among the frequent causes are trauma, motor vehicle accidents, falls, construction accidents, seat belt failure accidents, violence, seat back failure accidents, sports-related injuries, and other medical conditions like polio, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and arthritis, to name a few....read more

Spinal Cord Injury: Chronic Pain and Risk of Addiction
A common cause of chronic pain is a past traumatic spinal cord injury. This type of injury can be incurred during automobile crashes, construction accidents, or falling off a ladder at home....read more

Spinal Cord Injury: Combating Depression in SCI Survivors
If you endure a serious spinal cord injury, you may not feel alive. You may wish you weren't alive or feel like a prisoner trapped in a useless shell. It is important for you to know that you are not alone, and there are thousands of people who feel just like you....read more

Spinal Cord Injuries & Long Term Health Issues
Unfortunately, with many major accidents, injuries to the spine are the worst to be suffered by any accident victim. Typically, this type of injury causes paraplegia, which is the inability to move the lower half of the body. Quadriplegia is another common side effect of spinal cord injury (SCI), marked by the complete loss of movement in almost all parts of the body....read more

Tire Defects and Spinal Cord Injury
Tire defects and resulting injury have become so extensive in the United States that the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA), has developed a Website so that consumers can search current and past NHTSA tire and other suspected faulty automobile equipment failures, such as seat back failure, which has resulted in numerous injuries and subsequent paralysis of auto accident victims....read more

Spinal Cord Injury Settlement and Managing Money
A spinal cord injury can be a devastating blow, taking away all manner of abilities from one who has sustained such an injury, such as the ability to walk or to move at all. There are minor injuries as well, which can, even if they do not cause paralysis, inhibit one later in life when trying to work or do certain strenuous tasks....read more

Spinal Cord Injury & The First 72 Hours
Many spinal cord injuries begin presentation within 72-hours following trauma. If you begin to suffer any of the following symptoms within the 72-hour window following an accident or trauma, seek medical attention immediately....read more

Spinal Cord Injury & Pain Management
When a person sustains injury to the spinal cord, different areas of the body can be affected. The damage may cause a loss of sensation or function beyond the injured area, or it may affect only the location of trauma. The amount of discomfort experienced after a spinal cord injury depends on the level of damage that is done....read more

Spinal Cord Injury Equipment
Over the past few years, advances in rehabilitative medicine and in technology have resulted in a slew of new assistance and adaptive technologies that are designed to help people with spinal injuries regain a lot of their lost functionality and independence....read more