This page contains many resources for my clients and
others looking for information on broken bones, or
fractures. Use this site to learn and gather information
fracture injuries, but please, if you or someone you
know and love has suffered a broken bone, you need to
consult with an attorney today. You can call my office
and speak to me directly. The consultation is absolutely
free, there is no obligation for the call and you may
gain a tremendous amount of information from the conversation.
The legal process for recovering personal injury
damages for persons who have suffered a fracture
involves not only recovering the cost of existing
medical treatment and pain and suffering, but also
recovery of future medical expenses, lost wages,
loss of family and social relations, and many other
forms of damages.
To establish these damages, and prove them in a court
of law, the injured party needs to retain a variety of
doctors from many different disciplines of medicine,
as well as nurses, vocational experts, economists,
and other expert witnesses. The cost of retaining these
experts can be thousands of dollars per expert. My office
advances these costs for my clients. My office has an
extensive network of physicians and experts ready to help
my clients immediately.
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) reports
approximately 7 million broken bones each year in the U.S.
The AAOS divides fractures into five types, which are:
- Simple fracture, a bone is broken in one place,
but the skin is not damaged.
- Compound fracture, both the bone and the skin
are broken
- Transverse fracture, the bone has broken at
a right angle to the length of the bone
- Greenstick fracture, only one side of the bone
is broken and the bone bends
- Comminuted fracture, the break results in at
least three bone fragments
Bone fractures result from a wide variety of accidents,
from car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle
accidents, slip and fall, sports and recreational
accidents to acts of violence.
When a bone is broken, it must be realigned and
a cast is applied to hold the bone in place, while
it heals. While a cast may be sufficient to immobilize
simple fractures, comminuted fractures may require
surgery and other methods of called internal fixation
are applied to hold the broken bone in place. Wires
and other devices are used on the hand or the foot.
Plates, held together by screws are often used to
hold two bones together. Other methods of fixation,
such as nails, rods and screws may be used depending
on the nature of the break. Surgery, physician's
fees and health aid such as crutches and therapy
may add to the expense of healing fractures.
Additionally, broken bones can take an extremely
long time to heal, from weeks to months to years.
With fractures of great severity or involving
surgery, extensive physical therapy and rehabilitation
may be required in order for you to heal completely.
You may also incur lost wages as the result of losing
the use of a limb or mobility in general.
To start, if you have suffered a broken bone,
you need to consult with a good Orthopedic Surgeon.
My office helps guide my clients through the process
of finding a good doctor and getting the appropriate
medical care, even when my clients do not have medical
insurance.
If you have suffered a broken bone or fracture,
or other injuries caused by the negligence of another
and need a personal injury lawyer to help recover damages
call our 24-hour Call Center in Sacramento at 916-449-9672 or one of our other convenient locations.
Turlock: 209-668-2628 Modesto: 209-576-1010 Oakdale: 209-847-5500.
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are available. Unless we obtain an award for
you, there are no fees.
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