Numbness Arms, Legs After A Car, Truck, Motorcycle, Bike Accident

Why Is There Numbness in the Arms and Legs After an Accident?

After a car crash or accident, it is not unusual that you may feel numbness in your arms and legs. The force of the car accident, truck, motorcycle or bike accident may leave you with a feeling of tingling or numb limbs. The numbness that you feel may be experienced as:

• Foot or arm falling asleep
• Prickling
• Pins and needles
• Slight buzzing of the muscles
• Creeping feeling on the arm or legs

What Is Happening to My Body When It Goes Numb?

When you feel the sensation of going numb or having the tingles on your arms or legs after an accident, there are several sensations at play. Your arms and legs may have been injured during the accident. In that instance, your body is compensating by sending quieting agents to soothe the nerve endings that were damaged. The complaint of numbness is a muscle weakness or a type of slight paralysis of the limbs. This feeling of numbness can affect your mood, your ability to function in daily life and may affect your ability to walk.

Numbness Can Become a Sensory Disorder

The feeling of being numb in your arms or legs is an experience of pain. Although tingling is often seen as minor, it can be the cause of a major problem. Tinging in the joints, arms or legs should never be ignored, as it may signal or trigger a much more serious problem or injury. The pain may be constant or could come and go. Tingling feelings in the arms or legs is a type of sensory disorder, which can be treated with:

• Pharmacotherapies
• Nerve blocking therapies
• Surgical therapies
• Rehabilitation therapies

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How Long Will I Have Feelings of Numbness in My Arms and Legs?

The feeling of numbness after an accident may stay around for a long time. Even after extensive therapies and treatment, you may still have the numbness pain for many weeks to months after an accident. The healthcare professionals will test you for the reason for the numbness in your limbs. You may have to have tests that rule out other causes of the numbness, such as:

• Neurological testing
• Cardiopulmonary examination
• Cranial nerve function testing
• Gait testing
• Distal pulses testing
• Pinprick testing
• Deep tendon reflexes testing
• Review of upper and lower extremities testing

Can Numbness in Arms and Legs Ever Be a More Serious Problem?

In some cases, the numbness is only the start of pain after an accident. The feeling of numbness can signal or trigger more serious problems with other injuries. Numbness is just one symptom, that might be related to other symptoms associated with numbing pain. Many people who have numbness of arms and legs can also experience:

• Burning sensations
• Shooting pain
• Nighttime spasms of muscles
• Pain to non-painful stimuli
• Increased sensitivity in limbs
• Fear, anxiety and depression over experiencing more pain
• Poor circulation
• Musculoskeletal tenderness
• Swelling of limbs

Other Serious Causes of Numbness in the Limbs After an Accident

Of course, if you experience numbness in your limbs after a car, truck, motorcycle or bike accident, there may be other more serious and underlying causes for this pain. You may have damaged your spinal cord, nerve roots, had a traumatic brain injury or have experienced other complications to the injuries that you already have had from the accident.

Damage to the Spinal Cord

If you have damaged your spinal cord in an accident, it is always considered an immediate and serious injury. Traumatic physical pushing, pulling, bouncing or bumping of your body in a car, truck, motorcycle or bike accident can produce a damage spinal cord as the result of the crash. Spinal cord injuries can include:

• Compression injuries
• Distraction
• Shearing in the area of the spinal cord
• Lacerations of the spinal cord
• Stretching or pulling of the back areas

Once you have traumatized the spinal cord, it is difficult to recover the full use of that area again. The tissues, muscles and bones of the spinal cord are what allow you to function walking, sitting up and being able to move freely in life. When you damage or injure this area, it may become inflamed, or start to degenerate certain cells and muscles. Damage to the spinal cord will disrupt the blood flow in this area of the body, and could start to break down the spinal cord over time. If this happens, it will not function properly on account of the damages it sustains after an accident.

The good news is that the body will send hard-working repair cells to the area, to help repair the spinal cord if possible. Therapies are also given to promote new cell growth in this area of the body. Those therapies can be medicines, physical therapy or other medical therapies to help heal the spine. But did you know that if you damage your spinal cord, there is a domino effect to the result of damage occurring to other major areas and organs of the body? Let’s review what can happen when you sustain damage to your spinal cord.

Spinal Cord Problems Can Be a Domino Effect to Other Complications

If you have injured your spinal cord in an accident with a car, truck, motorcycle, or bike, your overall health may also be at stake. People who have spinal cord injuries can also develop respiratory complication or even die as a result of these types of injuries. That is to say, with a spinal cord injury, some individuals develop pneumonia or a type of respiratory failure that needs to put them on a ventilator to be able to breathe.

Other people develop a syndrome where they have shock to the spinal cord, and their overall blood flow in that area is compromised. If this happens, the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body evenly and smoothly may be affected. Surgery to the spinal column may be needed to prevent cord compressions that affect the flow of blood in this area of the body and elsewhere on the body.

Damage to the Nerve Roots

The nerve roots in your spinal cord and limbs are related and attached to supply sensations to your arms and legs. If these are damaged, compressed or stretched during an accident with a car, truck, motorcycle or bike, you may have the feeling of numbness. The peripheral nerves can be damaged quite easily in an accident. It could trigger a sensory, motor or functional disorder in a person who has been in any type of crash. These injuries are usually called:

• Acute
• Subacute
• Chronic

Acute nerve root injuries usually happen when there is a compression, stretch or laceration of the nerve root. Subacute nerve root injuries will form when there is an overuse of the nerve area with soft tissue injuries. Chronic nerve root injuries may occur with violent forces pushed into the nerve roots, such as during a car accident. The chronic nerve root injuries take a long time to heal. An acute nerve root injury that continues for weeks or months may turn into a chronic type of injury over time.

If you have injured nerve roots in the arms or legs, you may feel continual muscle weakness in these areas. The weakness felt in the arms and legs could also come from a nerve trunk injury or trauma to the middle area of the body. Bone fractures of the arms and legs may also trigger nerve lesions and problems with numbness, long after the accident is over. You may fear that you will never be able to walk again “normally” as you did before the accident.

The Most Common Types of Injuries Causing Nerve Damage After a Car Crash

The most common types of injuries causing nerve damage after a car crash are:

• Whiplash
• Blunt-force trauma
• Lacerations
• Bruises
• Contusions
• Jarring of bones
• Stretching of muscles
• Jerking of arms and legs
• Pinching of nerves
• Pressure around the spine
• Compression of nerves
• Deep cuts to the limbs
• Paralysis to arms or legs
• Muscle weakness
• Numbing pains
• Prickling sensations
• Tingling in limbs
• Heightened sensitivity to hot or cold
• Nerve damage to the spinal cord

The healing process for these types of injuries will be long and arduous, for anyone experiencing weakness in the arms or legs after a car crash. The types of therapy that could be given to help you heal will include:

• Medications
• Chiropractic care
• Deep tissue laser therapy
• Rest
• Exercises to strengthen the spine
• Endurance exercises

Start the Process of Healing and the Lawsuit at the Same Time!

Remember, that after an accident, your body is just starting the healing process. It will take many weeks or months to start to heal and feel better. But while you are getting better, you need to get the process started to recover the compensation that you will need to cover the expenses and medical bills that you have now. These bills are amassing right now during your healing process.

You will not want to heal from your accident, only to be met with a huge pile of medical bills and expenses, from an accident that you did not initiate. You should call a lawyer with experience in winning these types of cases. If you seek redress and recovery from someone who was at fault for your personal injuries, call an attorney with expertise in numbness injuries. We know how to get you what belongs to you – the money you deserve from this type of loss.

You May Have Damage to the Brain with Numb Arms and Legs

There may be damage to the sensory areas of the brain after an accident with a car, truck, motorcycle or bike. In that case, the brain will send signals of tingling or numbness to your limbs of the body. You may also experience a loss or change in your tasting of food, vision, hearing and in the way that you smell the world around you.

Your experience of numbness of the arms and legs may be rooted in damage to your brain. Only a health professional can make that diagnosis for you. In the event that you have numbness form a brain injury, you are going to need significantly more recovery compensation than you would for just a bruise on the arm or leg. We offer attorneys who specialize in damages to arms and legs, where the resulting experience is one of numbness of the limbs. Our firm can give you a lawyer with a specialty in getting the recovery compensation that you need right now.

Why You Need to Talk to Our Attorneys Right Away

We are able to manage this type of lawsuit for you in this case. you need to be with attorneys who understand the finer points of the law in these types of cases. There are underlying concepts that a lawyer can explain to you in this case, and we are able to do that for you when you call us.

An attorney will be able to help you here, as this is not something that you can manage on your own. You are not going to be able to get anything meaningful out of a discussion of this type of case with advice from your friends, family or coworkers. We know what to do to get you the money that you need to recover completely in this type of case. Lawsuits would be consistent with relief in this case, especially when you have been injured in a car, truck, motorcycle or bike accident.

Healing the Numbness in our Arms and Legs

The healing process of the arms and legs after an accident can take weeks or months. The muscles will feel weakened after an accident with a car, truck, motorcycle or bike. The nerve injuries will need to heal fully as well. You may have to undergo painful surgeries to help you to be able to regain the normal use of your arms or legs again. It may be painful for you to try to lift anything with your arms for quite a while.

It may also be painful if you try to walk, and cannot yet put any pressure on your legs. This will make it near impossible for you to carry out your everyday daily duties to take care of your home, family, job or work duties. You will need to take all of the time that you need to heal from these serious injuries. It will take weeks for your strength to come back, or for you to feel strong enough to return to your job.

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Can I Sue in This Type of Case?

Yes, we can sue in this type of circumstance, when you have numbness in your arms or legs after a car, truck, motorcycle or bike accident. When this case happens to you, our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit against the at-fault parties, to get you the recovery compensation that you deserve. You need to talk to our case attorneys in Los Angeles, because we can sue in consideration of these circumstances on your behalf.

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