What Causes WRIST PAIN after a Car Accident / Truck Accident / Pedestrian Accident – Injury Lawyer

The Wrist Joint Explained

The wrist attaches to the ulna and radial bones in the arm. This meets at several joints which help you to move your hand in a normal range of motion. There are three carpal bones that are attached to the wrist to the arm, allowing you to rotate the wrist in any way you need to during your normal daily activities. When this case happens to you, our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit to help you get the recovery compensation that you need, to help you heal properly after an injury to your wrist. In these cases, our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue in consideration of these circumstances, to get you the money that you need going forward.

How Does the Wrist Actually Move Around?

The wrist joint has movement in many different ways:

• Flexion
• Extension
• Abduction
• Adduction
• Circumduction

The points of the wrist are what allow it to move in the various ways that you need to in your daily life. The wrist has more movement in the area around the thumb. This means you can hinge your wrist out further away from your thumb, than back towards the opposite end. After a car accident or pedestrian accident, you may find that you are unable to move your wrist around as you normally would. This might not be apparent at first. You could just wake up one day after the accident, to realize in horror that you cannot even pick up a towel, or a book or tie your shoes properly. You may be wondering what to do, especially if you felt that your accident “wasn’t that big of a deal.” You may be finding out the hard way that a wrist injury is very much a big deal.

You use your hands every day and need them to flex properly to pick up anything during your daily functions. If you found that your wrists hurt now after a loss, you need an attorney. You should call a lawyer with experience in managing and winning cases with wrist injuries. If you seek redress, call an attorney with expertise in wrist injury recoveries, and give us a call. We are the #1 law firm with expertise in this area. We offer attorneys who specialize in hand and wrist injuries, and we can get you the recovery that you need in these types of cases.

Ligaments Tie the Wrist Together, and Yours May Be Damaged

The ligaments of the wrist tie the wrist to the base of the arm bones. These ligaments can be injured easily in a car accident. The ligaments can tear, be over extended or otherwise injured during a car crash. When you reacted to the car accident, you may have instinctively thrown your hands out in front of you. This may mean that your hands and naturally your wrists took a beating by being smashed up against the steering wheel, console, gear box, seat, door frame or other padded areas of the vehicle. Cars are padded inside, but that padding is not as soft as a pillow. The wrist can suffer greatly in a car accident, by being forced up against a solid object. Sometimes this can even break the wrist, or force it to move unnaturally, which will cause pain.

What Types of Injuries Occur to the Wrist in an Accident?

If you are in a car accident, truck accident or fall as a pedestrian vs. car accident, you have a high likelihood to injure your wrists. Your wrist will be injured by:

• Forced hyper-extension (bending back motion)
• Direct impact with hard object or ground
• Forced inward motion (bending forwards motion)

Most people react slowly to an accident, whether they are in a car or truck, or injured by a car while walking as a pedestrian. At the moment that you find yourself falling as a pedestrian, your first thought may be to put your arms out in front of you to break your fall. This will help to prevent damage from the fall to happen to your face or upper body, but will not stop your arms and wrists from taking major forces of the fall. Your wrists can be extended back unnaturally in the fall, or can be extended from hitting the side of the door in a car crash.

There is nothing that you could have done differently in that situation. When there is no time to react, you can’t do anything differently. Our firm can give you a lawyer with specialty in wrist pain after a car, truck or pedestrian accident. We are your #1 resource for lawyers who can help with your claim for a wrist injury after an accident. There is no time to waste. Do not waste valuable time talking to your friends, coworkers or relatives about an accident that they had or that they found recovery from.

Every accident is different, and every recovery is different. What happened to your friends in their accident, even if they had a wrist injury, is not going to apply at all to your case. It is nice that they care about you, but they are unable to be an expert adviser to you in this hour of your need for professional advice. It is time to talk to an experienced attorney in Los Angeles, and you can call us today to start this process now.

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Common Wrist Fractures Felt During an Accident

If you have been in an accident there are several common wrist fractures that can occur.

Colles’ Fracture

If you fall with your hands spread out in front of you, there is a high likelihood that you will experience this type of injury.

Smith’s Fracture

This injury is often called a reverse Colles’ fracture injury. You’ll see this injury with a damaged distal radius. It can be quite painful.

Scaphoid

The scaphoid is a common bone that is broken during a wrist injury after an accident. This injury is sometimes overlooked by healthcare professionals, who see it as a sprain. You might need an MRI to get an accurate imaging if you have this type of fracture. The injury can have a poor blood supply going to the area after the accident. This means that it may take over 5 months to heal this injury fully. In the meantime, you may not be able to resume normal duties, such as picking up items or even putting down items as it will be painful.

Lunate

The lunate injury of the wrist is a type of dislocation when the wrist has been extended out to far during a car accident or pedestrian fall.

Examination for Wrist Injury

Your healthcare provider will examine your wrist to determine if you have an injury in this area. If your wrist hurts, you are most likely experiencing a wrist injury. You will need to have an accurate diagnosis, in order to find the best course to heal the wrist. It will not be good enough to just say, “My wrist hurts!” Your medical provider needs to know exactly what happened to be able to help you to properly heal. The point of this diagnosis is to help provide a treatment plan to heal your wrist properly, and get you back to normal as soon as possible.

Your wrist medical exam will look for several conditions that are associated with your wrist and how it feels after the accident. The diagnosis will review:

• Any prior wrist deformities triggered to pain after this accident
• Edema or swelling in the wrist area
• Any color changes in the area
• Is the wrist area hot to the touch?
• Inflammation of the wrist
• Localized or general pain of the wrist
• Swelling in the wrist area
• Tenderness of the area
• Radiographs that are positive for fractures
• Decreased grip strength in the hand
• Painful popping in the wrist upon movement
• Clicking in the wrist whenever it is extended to pick up something
• Tenderness all around the wrist and arm areas
• Experience severe pain in the area
• Feeling faint, dizzy, nauseated or sick
• Hearing snapping, grinding or popping noise moving wrist

Your treatment will be determined by the extent of the wrist injury. The treatment for a wrist injury may include using a splint to immobilize the area, or to have a scheduled surgery to provide permanent stabilization of the wrist. Your treatment will be determined after a careful review of your wrist, the injury, what happened at the time of the accident and what is happening or being felt by you in relation to your wrist now.

Will My Wrist Ever Get Better?

It is not always the case, but if you have an injury to your wrist, you might become more susceptible to other issues in the wrist later on. After a wrist injury because of a car accident, truck accident or pedestrian accident, you may have more chances to develop arthritis in the wrist, have other tendon or ligament issues in the wrist, or have other problems with carpal tunnel syndrome going forward. That is why it is critical that you get the full compensation package that you deserve in this type of case.

Having a wrist injury is common in accidents with a car or truck, or when you are struck by a vehicle as a pedestrian. You can feel that your wrists are weak immediately after this type of loss, but they may actually worsen over time and not get better over time. If you have weakness today because of weak injured wrists, it is not guaranteed that you will heal properly without some type of medical attention. If there is a hairline fracture in a bone, it may heal badly, and take your hand or tendons out of alignment from the bones healing off balance. You don’t want that to happen. For that reason alone, you need to prepare for the future, for if you don’t heal the right way. What will happen to your wrists later if you never pursue the recovery compensation that you deserved in this type of case?

Can I Sue for My Injured Wrists?

You may be wondering to yourself; can I sue in this type of case? The answer is in the affirmative, that we can sue in this type of circumstance. A wrist injury is no small matter, you need your hands and wrists daily to function in your family, work and other social situations. An attorney will be able to help you here to understand the merits of your case, and tell you how you can recover compensation for your wrist injury.

Whether you are injured in a car accident, truck accident or an accident as a pedestrian, you can give us a call for finding relief. Lawsuits would be consistent with relief in this case, because if someone else is at fault, that individual or group of people need to reimburse you for the pain to your wrist. You may also have a condition that is triggered by the accident, in relation to your wrist. This needs to be addressed as well, as you may be now vulnerable to more injuries in the future.

Prognosis After a Wrist Injury

Everyone experiences a wrist injury after a car, truck or pedestrian accident differently. That wrist injury may heal fine, or it may linger on as a pain for years to come after the accident. For this reason, you need to talk to an experienced lawyer about your pain in your wrist. There are underlying concepts that a lawyer can explain to you in this case, which will help you to recover the compensation that you need in this type of case. You need to know that you are taking care of your losses going forward, even as you heal from the accident that injured your wrist in the first instance.

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Damages otherwise recoverable for this type of loss need to come your way when you have injured your wrist. The hand and wrist are how you pick everything up in your daily life, you need your wrists to function 100% again!

Everything doesn’t work out in life, exactly as you would expect it to go. Sometimes there are snags, and that can happen to anyone. But don’t let that get you down. We are here for you whenever you have a question about your case. We have attorneys ready to step in and handle your case for you, and get you to the finish line with the recovery compensation that you deserve in this case. You can’t look at a reward that your friend got, or that you saw on television or on popular social media outlets. Each case is different, and we are ready to handle your case as our first priority.

We are here for you to ensure that you get the money you deserve in this type of case. Call us now for a free consultation, we are ready to sit down and talk to you about your wrist injury today.

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