After you have experienced a car accident, it is not that difficult to guess that you will also have many different types of aches and pains. Some of those pains will come from bumps and bruises after the car crash. These pains can be specific, and land on certain areas of the body. You can injure your arm and elbow quite easily in a car accident. This is because you do not have a lot of time to react in a car crash, and your arm and elbows are vulnerable during the time of the impact of the accident.
Car crashes happen without prior notice most of the time. You may have instinctively put your arms up in front of you, to brace quickly for the crash. Or in the alternative, you may have been jostled around during the accident and did not realize what part of your body you hit where. Remember, the doors of your car are somewhat padded, but they are solid and do not “give” against flesh in a car accident. You also can have the experience of pain in your elbow after a car accident. If you have had an elbow injury as the result of a car accident, just give us a call. We will always put your best interest first and foremost, and our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit for you in this case.
Anatomy of an Elbow
Most people never think about their elbows, but they are actually complex parts of our bodies. They are complex in that they have a joint, hinge and other areas that make up the total of the elbow. If you have pain in your elbow after a car crash, you are experiencing musculoskeletal issues. You will need to have it looked at by a medical professional. This means that you should seek medical advice from your doctor, or medical office where you are seen on a regular basis, the emergency department of your local hospital.
If you are offered to be checked out at the scene of the accident, you should always have this performed. It is to your benefit to be checked at the accident to ensure that you are fine and do not have any hidden injuries. If you did not get checked out at the time of the accident at the scene by EMTs, that is okay as well. You can still give us a call to discuss your claim for an elbow injury after this accident.
What Kinds of Damage Can My Elbow Sustain?
Your elbow is made up of several different areas:
- Anterior
- Lateral
- Medial
- Posterior
Your doctor will perform tests of your elbow range of motion after a car crash. This will determine the exact location of any damage to the elbow region of your body. If you have a positive test result for pain in any of the identified areas, you will be given a course of treatment to help it to heal properly. There are many nerves in the elbow, as well as cartilage, blood vessels, nearby bones and associated ligaments. Any of these areas can also be damaged in a car crash. Depending on the results of any testing, you will be advised of the exact injury to your elbow. There are a number of injuries that you could have incurred in your car accident, such as:
- Tendon rupture
- Nerve compression
- Weakness or inability to resist or withstand force
- Isolated pain
- Instability of the joint
- Ligament injury
- Tunnel syndrome
- Tingling
- Pain rotating certain degrees
- Medial joint pain
- Outstretched arm pain
- Shattered bones in the elbow
- Resistance pain
- Pain in the shoulder
- Pain on flexing elbow
- Pain on tapping elbow
- Superficial nerve pain
Your elbow is connected to your arm. You may have even had an injury to the elbow, and mistakenly believe that your “arm” hurts. Until you are checked out by a healthcare professional, do not try to diagnose your injuries yourself. Leave that to the professionals, as they can tell if there are hairline fractures, internal breaks or issues, or know if there are torn ligaments in the region of your elbow that need medical attention.
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How Is My Elbow Supposed to Move When Uninjured?
Your elbow is supposed to move nicely on a hinge, to attach to the rest of your arm. This allows your arm to have natural movement. The elbow is connected with joints and ligaments to let you lift your arm up and down. The arm bones are attached to the elbow in a way to allow it to move smoothly. When you have an injury, you may have disrupted this natural movement, with a bone chip, injury, fracture, ligament tear or other injury to the elbow. That may cause pain to the elbow area.
There are other bones attached to your elbow, bones that you may be familiar with from anatomy lessons years ago in school. For example, the radius and ulna are the bones in your forearm, and they are affected by an injury in your elbow. The humerus bone is the large bone in your bicep area, and it is attached to your elbow too from the top. You probably have never thought about the bones, cartilage, ligaments, blood vessels or other parts of your elbow, until it became injured in the car accident! But the elbow serves an important feature in being able to move your arm. You need to be reimbursed for this type of loss if you have had an accident that affected your elbow.
What Happened to My Elbow During the Crash?
During the car accident, you would have experienced pain in the elbow area. It would have made it hard for you to continue your natural and daily activities. It might have been difficult or impossible for you to lift your arm, flex or move your elbow out for a normal range, or for you to feel yourself. Depending on your job, you may not be able to resume normal operations at work because of an elbow injury. You also may be severely restricted at home from doing normal activities, such as picking up a load of laundry, picking up and comfortably holding a bag of groceries or even using your arm to climb a flight of stairs. The range of motion of your elbow will be severely limited when you have injured your elbow in a car accident.
Why Do I Have Elbow Pain Now?
Your elbow pain is hurting you for a number of reasons. Your elbow naturally can rotate your distal arm in a few specific ways, and any time that you rotate your arm outside of this range, you will experience some pain. The pain may be slight or severe. In a car accident, the elbow can easily bump into the:
- Console
- Steering wheel
- Door frame
- Seat
- Another person
- Gear shift
- Dashboard
- Objects in the car on the seat
When you have an elbow injury after a car accident, we can help. We are here for you, and we can assure you that we are ready to discuss your case today. You will work with an experienced attorney in Los Angeles who is versed in managing cases with elbow injuries. You may be wondering, “Can I sue in this type of case?” We are here to inform you that we can sue for your elbow injury, as it will affect how you use your arm, and the range of motion of your elbow going forward.
How Do I Heal from My Elbow Pain from the Crash?
If you have elbow pain, you will need to have an extended course of treatment to be able to completely heal after this type of injury. You may think that an elbow injury is a “minor” injury, and you could be right. It is just that if you need to pick up or carry anything, extend your arm, or otherwise live a normal life again, you need your elbow to do all of those things. Therefore, in that case, an elbow injury is not minor at all, it is a major injury. It is an injury that can be life altering if it prevents you from living a normal life afterwards. In this type of case, you need a lawyer who is able to avert the disasters that are coming your way, as a result of having experienced this accident. You need to put your life back together, and we are here to help you.
Treatments for Elbow Injuries
There are many different types of medical treatments for elbow injuries. Your treatment will depend on the extent of your elbow injury itself.
Anterior Elbow Injuries
These types of elbow injuries might have vague or specific pain, and the pain may be felt in the flexing motion of the forearm as well as the elbow. You may need physical therapy with this type of injury, it depends on the severity of the accident and the car crash that you were in.
Lateral Elbow Injuries
These injuries to the elbow will require rest, and later may need to add some stretching and strengthening exercises to help it to heal. You will most likely need to wear a brace, and may need injections of corticosteroids or other types of medication such as topical applications to help the healing process along.
Medial Elbow Injuries
Your healthcare provider will advise you to possibly use a splint on the elbow at night, which will help you to keep the arm in a position not to jostle or move the area out of alignment. You may be told to stretch the elbow, use physical therapy exercises or treat with rehabilitation if necessary. If you have this type of elbow injury, our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue to ensure that the good things that you deserve will come back to you. This is important to understand, even after being in this type of loss, you can recover compensation to help you heal properly and get the use of your arm and elbow back like before.
Posterior Elbow Injuries
There may be surgery suggested in this type of injury, especially if the injury shows any major pain, swelling and warmth to the area. There could be a course of corticosteroid injections suggested, or further testing if the pain persists after three months of healing.
All elbow injuries may be helped with a course of pain relief from an over-the-counter pain medication, and icing on the injury for a short amount of time. Keeping elbow still and preventing it from further jostling is also recommended while you heal from your injuries. Surgery could be considered in some cases, that is a plan that will need to be discussed with your healthcare provider. We will let you sit down and talk to an attorney who will renew your hope that you will get back the money that you deserve in this case. Your elbow injury is not a minor injury, you need to be reimbursed to get you back on your feet as soon as possible, after this type of loss. Our attorneys will work on a lawsuit for your benefit, that will be the right move for you in this case of an elbow injury.
Medical Diagnosis of Elbow Injury
Your doctor or other healthcare provider will use several tools to diagnose an elbow injury. You may have an MRI performed, to identify any pathologic conditions that are happening to your elbow. This is important to review in case the car accident triggered any prior injuries that you have already made to your elbow in the past. If your elbow is broken, you may be given a cast or other self-stabilizing apparatus to help your elbow to stay in place while it starts to heal itself after the accident. After your car accident, you can call our office. You can call before you have a formal diagnosis for your elbow injury. Call our office now to ensure that you get to talk to a lawyer with experience in managing your elbow injury case. We have an attorney on our team with expertise in working with people with elbow injuries after a car accident. We are able to let you talk to attorneys who specialize in these types of cases.
Your doctor or healthcare provider will know to check for hairline elbow fractures. These types of small fractures can be missed on an X-ray or other radiographs, but they need to be treated with care. In certain cases, the elbow needs to be manipulated to help it heal, or in other cases it needs to be immobilized. Your healthcare provider will review these options and treatments with you, once it is determined what exact type of injury that you have had. In this type of case, it would be a disaster if you did not work with a lawyer with specialty in managing elbow injuries. Call us today to talk right now to lawyers who can help with getting you the recovery compensation that you deserve for your elbow injury.
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