New Breakthroughs in Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Offers Promise for Truck Accident Victims

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MARSHALL, Texas. The quality of treatment patients receive after spinal cord injury can make a major difference in their prognosis and outcome. Truck accidents can result in particularly serious injuries due to the sheer size and weight of the vehicles involved. For truck accident victims facing spinal cord injuries, new breakthroughs offer promise.

According to Medscape, one study is investigating how a scaffold device can help patients with complete spinal cord injuries heal to incomplete injuries. According to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, there are two main types of spinal cord injury: complete and incomplete injuries. With incomplete injuries, movement below the site of injury may not be completely lost and sensation may be present, even if sensation is faint. Complete injuries involve complete loss of feeling and motion below the injury site. During the course of the study, 44% of patients who received the scaffold treatment experienced a conversion of their symptoms from complete spinal cord injury to partial injury. With the procedure, a device is implanted in the spinal cord at the site of injury. The study is still in the early stages, so it isn’t clear how this treatment will impact independence, quality of life, pain, and other factors for patients, but the treatment shows promise.

Over the course of the study, doctors were also able to observe direct damage that occurs to the spinal cord during a serious injury. This damage can include inflammation, hemorrhage, and presence of debris.

Spinal cord injury is very serious and can result in major lifestyle changes, long recovery times, and life-long disability. Victims may experience high medical costs, long rehabilitation periods, and may lose function below the area of their injury. This injury can be very devastating and costly. When it comes to personal injury recovery, spinal cord injury patients may be able to seek damages for pain and suffering resulting from lifestyle changes that occur due to their accident. Spinal cord injuries can cost patients anywhere from hundreds of thousands of dollars to over a million dollars in expenses in the first year alone. The lifetime cost of living with spinal cord injury can be in the millions. Truck companies and drivers are required to hold high value policies to protect them and victims in the event of an accident.

If you’ve been in a truck accident in Marshall, Texas, consider speaking to the truck accident lawyers at the Cooper Law Firm today. Our truck accident lawyers can review the details of your case, fight to help you get the best possible settlement under the law, and determine whether other stakeholders are involved in your crash.

You and your family deserve the best possible treatment after a truck accident. The Cooper Law Firm understands that this treatment can sometimes be incredibly expensive. When a truck accident occurs, many stakeholders may be financially responsible for covering your expenses: from truck drivers to truck companies and insurance providers. Learn more and protect your rights. Visit us at https://www.cooper-law-firm.com/.

Cooper Law Firm

501 N Third St,

Longview, TX 75601

Telephone: (903) 297-0037

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