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Car crashes can often result in significant injury to your legs. At our law firm, Regan Zambri Long, we’ve seen all kinds of leg injuries from accidents – from bone fractures, dislocations, and in some cases to amputations. Your legs are essential for moving, so when they’re injured, it can significantly impact your lifestyle. You may have trouble walking, working, or doing things you love. What previously seemed effortless often requires a new course of planned action.
Leg injuries can take a long time to heal and involve costly doctor bills. If someone else caused the auto accident, you shouldn’t have to deal with all this on your own. That’s where our knowledgeable personal injury lawyers at Regan Zambri Long can help. Contact our car accident lawyers for your free case evaluation. We’re here to help you understand your rights to compensation for your medical bills, missed work, and the pain you’re enduring.
The National Highway Traffic Administration has findings that reveal 37% of all frontal car accidents result in lower leg injuries. The type of injury depends on the direct impact and angle of the crash. The effect can break bones, strain or tear muscles, and injure joints like the hips, knees, and ankles.
Leg fractures, knee damage, complex fractures, and muscle sprains are the most common leg injuries after a car accident because your legs are often pinned or impacted during a collision. These accident injuries can be painful and sometimes require long recovery times, including physical therapy or surgery.
When a car crashes, broken glass and pieces of sharp metal fly through the air. Crash victims are susceptible to cuts; glass and metal pieces can slice your legs, leaving lacerations that sometimes need stitches.
Ligaments are the bands that provide elasticity and movement to our bones and hold them together. Stretched or torn ligaments are common injuries in car accidents. As your ligaments attempt to absorb the accident’s impact and stabilize your bones, the excessive force causes them to get stretched too far and sometimes tear.
Accident victims’ symptoms range a great deal. Ligament injuries can range from microscopic tears and minimal sprains to severe tears and sprains.
An Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury is a severe knee injury when your knee endures a ligament tear due to a significant impact or if the knee joint twists unusually. The ACL is right in the middle of your knee joint, anchored from the back of your thigh bone (femur) to the front of your shin bone (the tibia); this twist often triggers a sprain or ACL tear.
Symptoms of knee ligament damage usually include extreme pain and an unstable and weak knee joint. Most ACL tears require surgery and physical therapy to recondition the muscles supporting the knee joint and its functions. Even after surgery and medical treatment, your knee may not feel the same as it did before. The sooner your injury is evaluated, the better your recovery and injury claim will be.
The meniscus is a firm but flexible pad between the bones in your knee made of fibrocartilage. It helps absorb shock and buffer the joint, allowing it to move smoothly. If your knee gets twisted or struck in an accident, this pad can tear (creating a torn meniscus) and create knee pain.
When your meniscus tears, your knee might feel severe pain and stiffness, and your knee may well up and feel a compromised range of motion — in certain instances, it may feel like it’s stuck or that it might give out when you walk. Generally speaking, rest and prescribed exercises can repair car accident victims’ small tears. More significant tears from car accident injuries may require surgery.
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The force of high-impact collisions can cause severe fractures in your legs, feet, or ankles. These fractures are frequent in car accidents and often require surgery to heal properly:
Common leg fractures from car accidents include:
Motor vehicle accidents can result in serious injuries. When a leg injury is crushed beyond the point of repair, and all foreseen options are just not viable, part of the leg may have to be removed. Sometimes, even after efforts are made to prevent amputation, the leg may not heal the right way. In serious injuries, the leg may have infections or minimal blood flow. As a result, the leg may have to be removed so that the accident victim’s life is saved and to avoid further life-threatening health problems.
Losing a leg is a traumatic experience. It changes someone’s everyday activities and medical care demands extensive physical therapy, mobility aids, and lifestyle changes. The emotional impact can be overwhelming, and various forms of treatment are often necessary to help cope with this challenging time.
Leg injuries from car crashes can cause ongoing chronic pain. Learning to move after an amputation takes a lot of patience and a commitment to continuous hard work. Getting better takes time, and traumatic car injuries often demand new ways to do everyday things. Occupational and physical therapy sessions are common treatments geared at helping with your healing or a new way of moving around.
These severe injuries can have a psychological impact on you. Loss of enjoyment of life and your new quality of life can seem stark. These adjustment periods and new realities, whether temporary or permanent, can disrupt your emotional well-being. Medical attention, treatment options and your successful recovery benefit significantly from the support from family, friends, and doctors to help you through the challenging times.
At Regan Zambri Long, we know how physically, emotionally, and financially difficult it is when you’re dealing with a broken leg or leg injury from a car crash in DC, Maryland, or Virginia. Our car accident lawyer team has the expertise and resources to make thorough and sound investigations of these car accident laws. We will work diligently to establish proof and are reputable in helping car accident victims recover the compensation they need and deserve.
We will deal with insurance companies and ensure your needs get representation accordingly:
You can focus on recovering while we handle all the legal matters.
Your medical bills, physical therapy, missed work, mobility aids, possible assisted care, and how your injury has impacted your daily lifestyle are all factors for your compensation. Also, the real impact and strain your injury has on you and your family, as well as your future care, needs, and way of life, are to be considered.
Call us at Regan Zambri Long today for your free case evaluation with one of our car accident attorneys. Our experienced personal injury attorneys at Regan Zambri Long have a successful record in helping car accident victims recover the compensation they need and deserve.
Whether you’re dealing with ongoing chronic pain, mobility issues, or medical expenses, we’re here to help you move your injury claim forward for your pain and suffering. If insurance company offerings do not suffice and your case needs to go to court, we will fight to get the compensation you are entitled to. Don’t delay — reach out to us for your free consultation and legal advice to get on course. Let us handle the legal hurdles so you can focus on healing.
