Soft-Tissue Injuries in St. Louis

Soft-Tissue Car Accident Injury Claim - Call 314.448.0934

Minor impact car accidents almost always result in soft-tissue injuries.  Soft-tissue essentially includes everything but bones and organs.  The most common form of a soft-tissue injury is one to the spine and discs.  Our spine is broken down into three parts, the cervical (neck), thoracic (middle), and lumbar (lower).  Low speed impacts (less than 10mph) can cause whiplash, and in some case, disc bulging.  Victims may be entitled to compensation by filing a soft-tissue car accident injury claim.

Low speed rear-end car accidents often cause soft-tissue injuries.  Even if you feel 'ok' at the accident scene, it is important to seek medical care immediately to diagnose any trauma.  Soft-tissue injuries have a way of masking themselves for hours or days following a car accident.  Victims often times will experience pain radiating down their arms or legs, accompanied by numbness and tingling.  This is a sign of"radiculopathy," a serious injury that may be stubborn to treat.  Spine manipulation, physical therapy, and localized pain injections may not be enough to treat a soft-tissue injury.  Surgical intervention may become necessary to improve a car accident victim's quality of life.

View a Soft-Tissue Injuries article for additional statistical information regarding injury in low-speed car accidents.

Soft-Tissue Injury Claim for Compensation

Insurance claims adjusters are notorious for minimizing claims for soft-tissue injuries.  Adjusters will never offer soft-tissue injury victims fair compensation.  One of the most common mistakes is to seek chiropractic care immediately following a low speed car accident.  Chiropractic care is not advisable until after the injury has been properly diagnosed by a neurologist or orthopedist.  Even if the victim is taken to the emergency room from the scene of the accident, the ER often times does not request the diagnostic imagining necessary to disclose a soft-tissue injury. 

Soft-tissue injury claims for compensation should not be settled until the victim and lawyer fully understand the magnitude of the injury itself.  A stiff neck is common for several weeks.  Just because the stiffness starts to subside does not necessarily mean that the injury is healed.  The root cause of the injury can often times be masked by narcotic pain medication and lactic acid build-up.  It is important to wait until the injury is fully understood and diagnosed before any claim for compensation is made to an insurance company.

St. Louis Soft-Tissue Car Accident Injury Lawyers 

The St. Louis soft-tissue car accident injury lawyers at Schultz & Myers will not tolerate low-ball settlement offers from insurance companies.  Our injury lawyers are skilled at settling cases in mediation and, when necessary, taking the case to trial to obtain maximum compensation for the client.  The only way to achieve good results is to prepare each case like it will go to trial.  This strategy is effective in sending a message to insurance companies and defense attorneys - that we will not back down until our client is fully compensated. 

Call 314.448.0934 or 866.840.3636 for an immediate free consultation

Contact a St. Louis soft-tissue car accident lawyer by calling (314) 448-0934.  You will have the opportunity to discuss your injury case with an attorney immediately, free of charge.