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CRPS After Truck Accidents
Strong representation for the victims of truck collisions who suffer from CRPS
Truck accidents often cause serious injuries, such as broken bones, soft tissue damages, and injuries requiring surgery, which in some cases may lead to CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). Truck accident victims may suffer Type I (no confirmed nerve damage) CRPS or Type II (confirmed nerve damage) CRPS.
Our personal injury lawyers have the experience and working relationships with liability and medical professionals to show how truck accidents happen, who is liable, and that a truck accident within reasonable medical probability caused your CRPS. We can pursue compensation from those responsible for a truck accident for medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering, and vehicle damage. Contact us today to assert your right to compensation.
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Do truck accidents cause CRPS?
Yes. While CRPS can be difficult to diagnose, doctors use accepted clinical criteria to diagnose and evaluate whether trauma is a likely contributing cause.
Truck accidents often cause severe trauma due to the weight and size of commercial vehicles such as semis, tractor-trailers, rigs, and delivery trucks. People in passenger vehicles, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians involved in collisions with large trucks may suffer serious injuries that, in some cases, may be associated with the development of CRPS.
Our CRPS lawyers work with neurologists and other medical professionals to show what injuries you have, including CRPS, and to support that a truck accident caused or contributed to your CRPS within reasonable medical probability.
Why do truck accidents happen?
Our CRPS personal injury attorneys work with investigators, police, traffic reconstruction experts, and truck parts experts to help establish the cause of truck accidents. We can also formally question everyone with knowledge of the truck accident, review electronic driving logs, and take other steps to show how truck accidents happen.
Common causes of truck accidents include:
- Driving while tired. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has hours-of-service rules that regulate the maximum number of hours truck drivers can operate their trucks without taking proper rest.
- Driving distracted. Drivers who text, use a mobile phone, eat, drink, or look at their GPS are not fully focusing on the traffic around them.
- Driver impairment. Drivers who drink or use drugs and drive are a danger to themselves and anyone on the road.
- Improper blind spot management. Trucks have blind spots due to their length, width, and height. Drivers need to understand where their blind spots are and use proper caution.
- Wide turn accidents. Trucks need more room than cars to complete their turns at intersections.
- Traffic violations or careless driving. Drivers who speed, tailgate, fail to yield, and fail to follow traffic laws risk accidents that could cause CRPS.
- Backing out of accidents. Drivers of trucks need to use extra caution when backing out into traffic.
- Other causes. These include a lack of proper training, merging improperly, passing improperly, and many other causes.
How do you help the victims of truck accidents prove that their CRPS is likely due to a truck accident?
There are medical ways to confirm a CRPS diagnosis, though the diagnosis process is more complicated than many types of truck accident injuries.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, CRPS is a condition that causes pain, skin color changes, and other symptoms, usually in your arm, leg, hand, or foot. CRPS can affect a limb, your ability to function, your ability to sleep, and your mental health.
Experts believe that CRPS is due to dysfunction in your central nervous system (your brain and spinal cord) and your peripheral nervous system (the system that relays information from your brain and spinal cord to your organs, arms, legs, fingers, and toes.) The result is an overreaction to pain signals that your nervous system can’t shut off. CRPS symptoms can take weeks to appear.
In many cases, CRPS follows trauma or injury to the affected limb that damages the thinnest sensory and autonomic nerve fibers.
Some of the causes of CRPS that can be due to truck accidents include:
- Fractures
- Surgery for any injury
- Burns, bruises, and cuts
- Sprains or strains
We can work with medical professionals to confirm your CRPS and to show that a recent truck accident is a reasonably likely contributing cause of your CRPS.
How do doctors treat CRPS?
There are treatment options for CRPS. Early medical review can help victims have a better recovery. CRPS treatments aim to reduce your pain, improve bodily function, minimize symptoms, and improve your quality of life.
Treatments for CRPS include physical therapy, occupational therapy, medications, pain management therapies (such as acupuncture and biofeedback), and psychological counseling.
Possible interventional treatments include trigger point/tender point injections, spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglia stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, IV ketamine infusion, and intrathecal drug pumps.
With treatment, CRPS does improve in many (but not all) patients. Some patients may experience remissions of their CRPS.
Our team stays current on new research, studies, and treatments for CRPS to better serve our clients.
Who is responsible for truck accidents that cause CRPS?
Our CRPS lawyers file truck accident claims against everyone responsible for a truck accident. The people and businesses that may be responsible for a truck accident that causes CRPS may include one or more of the following, depending on the state where the accident occurs:
- A truck driver
- The truck driver’s employer
- The owner of the truck (such as the owner of a fleet of trucks), if the driver and the owner are not the same
- The trucking broker who arranges the shipment, where permitted under applicable state or federal law
- The loading and unloading companies
- The companies that request the shipment
- A state Department of Transportation or other governmental agencies, subject to governmental immunity and other limitations
- A seller of alcohol to a person who was obviously intoxicated to the extent they presented a clear danger to themself or others, and that intoxication caused the harm (depending on the state law)
- The manufacturers of defective truck parts, such as brakes, tires, hydraulic systems, and electrical systems
How much is my CRPS claim worth?
CRPS can cause lifelong or long-term pain and suffering. For some victims, their lives are never the same as before the development of CRPS. Our CRPS lawyers work with your physicians and our network of CRPS physicians (including neurologists, orthopedists, and pain management doctors) to verify your CRPS diagnosis, explain what medical care you need, and review all the ways your CRPS is making your life difficult.
We may pursue the following types of compensation:
- All your current and future medical bills of every type by every provider for reasonably necessary care
- All your past and future income losses because you cannot work at all or at the same level as you did before your CRPS
- Your daily physical pain and emotional suffering
- The damage to your vehicle
- Any scarring or disfigurement
- The loss of any bodily function
- The loss of consortium
- The inability to enjoy life’s pleasures
In limited cases, exemplary damages may be available, subject to strict legal standards and statutory caps.
Contact our CRPS lawyers for experienced personal injury representation now
At The CRPS Law Firm, we have the experience and working relationships to handle truck accidents that cause CRPS. Our CRPS lawyers represent CRPS victims nationwide in association with licensed local counsel where required by law. Contact us to schedule a free consultation.