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Arizona
Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers
Arizona spinal cord injury 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.
Spinal cord injury incidence
is estimated to be around 40 cases per million
people in the U.S., though there have not been
any studies in overall spinal cord injury in the
U.S. since 1970. Based on the estimations, there
are around 11,000 new cases of spinal cord injury
each year. Today the number of people in the
U.S. who currently has spinal cord injury is around
183,000 and 230,000 people.
Spinal cord injury affects young
adults the most, with 55% of spinal cord injury
sufferers being between 16-30. The average age
of a spinal cord injury is 32.1, but there has
been an increase in the mean age at time of injury
since 1973. Around eighty percent of spinal cord
injury patients are male, with the ratio of injury
four to one male to female.
Spinal cord injury is most often
caused by vehicle crashes, followed by violence,
falls, sports, and other injuries. Cases of spinal
cord injury as a result of violence and falls
have increased since 1973, with motor vehicle
and sports spinal cord injury decreasing.
Spinal cord injury that results
in paraplegia has a 40% average return rate to
work, while 30% of spinal cord injury that results
in quadriplegia returns to work. Paraplegia is
spinal cord injury that is usually located as
a lower injury and affects just the legs and lower
parts of the body. Quadriplegia is a spinal cord
injury that affects the spine in the cervical
or neck level that can cause paralysis in both
the arms and the legs. Both forms of spinal cord
injury are sometimes caused as a direct result
of a personal injury.
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