Coping With Arm Injuries After an Accident
This article covers both the treatments available to arm injury victims and the level of compensation these injuries attract.
Arm injuries can affect our ability to live our lives in a very significant way, perhaps more so than injuries to the legs and feet.
This is because we use our arms for communication and to allow us to manipulate objects around us.
Quite simply, whilst losing the use of your legs in an accident means that you might have difficulty getting around, losing the use of your arms could mean you are unable to dress and wash yourself, to write or type as well as being unable to prepare food and eat it.
It is vital that in any accident where your arms have been injured, even in a minor way, you receive a level of financial support that allows you to limit the effects that your arm injuries have on your lifestyle.
There are many different forms of support to enable people who have suffered arm injuries to minimise the impact that these injuries have on their life.
For people who have suffered minor or moderate injuries, such as dislocations or simple fractures, it might be possible to arrange for physiotherapy treatment to restore a normal, or nearly normal, range of movement in their hands and arms.
For more serious fractures, specialist surgery might be required to re-align the bones in the arm.
Lastly, where accident victims' injuries have been so great that an amputation of part of the arm or the whole arm was necessary, it may be possible to fit a prosthetic or artificial arm to allow the person to carry out a range of tasks and thereby retain their independence.
Arm injuries can affect our ability to live our lives in a very significant way, perhaps more so than injuries to the legs and feet.
This is because we use our arms for communication and to allow us to manipulate objects around us.
Quite simply, whilst losing the use of your legs in an accident means that you might have difficulty getting around, losing the use of your arms could mean you are unable to dress and wash yourself, to write or type as well as being unable to prepare food and eat it.
It is vital that in any accident where your arms have been injured, even in a minor way, you receive a level of financial support that allows you to limit the effects that your arm injuries have on your lifestyle.
There are many different forms of support to enable people who have suffered arm injuries to minimise the impact that these injuries have on their life.
For people who have suffered minor or moderate injuries, such as dislocations or simple fractures, it might be possible to arrange for physiotherapy treatment to restore a normal, or nearly normal, range of movement in their hands and arms.
For more serious fractures, specialist surgery might be required to re-align the bones in the arm.
Lastly, where accident victims' injuries have been so great that an amputation of part of the arm or the whole arm was necessary, it may be possible to fit a prosthetic or artificial arm to allow the person to carry out a range of tasks and thereby retain their independence.