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Arizona
Paraplegia Lawyers
Arizona paraplegia lawyers who represent people
who have suffered a personal injury or death by
negligence, medical malpractice or a defective
product. We also represent people treated unfairly
by insurance companies resulting in bad faith,
breach of contract, and uninsured motorist claims.
Paraplegia
is paralysis of the lower body and legs. There
are different classifications of spinal cord injury,
and paraplegia affects the thoracic, lumbar, or
sacral segments. Motor vehicles, falls, sports,
and violence most often cause paraplegia. Spinal
cord injuries affect at least 7,800 people in
the U.S. every year, and this figure includes
paraplegia. Paraplegia is a permanent condition
that can greatly alter an individual's lifestyle.
In paraplegia cases where the spinal cord nerves
are severed the physical conditions become irreversible,
but any spinal cord injury, like paraplegia does
not result in mental impairments.
There are two types of
spinal cord injuries that result in paralysis,
paraplegia and quadriplegia that results depend
on the degree of injury or disease and what position
it occurs on the spinal cord. Paraplegia does
not have the use of his/her legs and feet and
some lower body muscles, and the paraplegia injury
can have a significant psychological trauma. Life
expectancy for paraplegia patients is normally
90% of what is expected for the able bodied population.
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