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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) hurts. Among the many different types of pain people can have, it’s considered one of the most devastating, and according to some, worse than amputations or broken bones. When accidents or medical malpractice cause CRPS, victims may live with chronic physical pain for the rest of their lives. The physical pain often causes anxiety and depression. Some victims may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
CRPS victims often need to spend a fortune getting a diagnosis and treating with their doctors and rehabilitative care specialists. Each day is likely to be traumatic. Many victims cannot work due to their CRPS condition. Victims often have other injuries, such as spinal cord injuries, broken bones, or nerve damage, that only compound their pain and the cost of their medical care.
Our CRPS lawyers have a strong record of success in obtaining verdicts and settlements for CRPS victims. We work with your doctors, our network of doctors (if necessary), your employers, life care planners, you, and your family to show all the financial and personal damages you have. Call us today to assert your right to compensation.
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What type of physical and emotional pain does CRPS cause?
According to the US National Institutes of Health, the symptoms of CRPS include the following:
Pain, usually in an arm, hand, leg, or foot, due to some type of trauma or injury. Some of the symptoms and types of pain CRPS victims are likely to experience include:
- Unprovoked or sudden pain that can be constant or change with activity
- Long-term sensitivity to touch, physical contact, or the use of all or part of a limb
- Changes in the temperature or color of your skin, or swelling
- Changes in the texture of your skin
- Stiffness in the affected joints
- Sweating
- Hair or nail growth
- Thinning of the bones/excess bone growth
- Movement disorders
- Reduced muscle strength
What treatments help CRPS victims?
The NIH states that generally, early and aggressive intervention for CRPS helps. Possible treatments include:
- Physical therapy
- Psychological counseling
- Practical changes, such as keeping “affected arms and legs elevated when resting or sleeping to help excess fluid return to the heart.”
- Visual therapy that involves imagining moving your limbs, without actually moving them
- Medications to reduce pain, subject to proper monitoring by your physician
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Other kinds of neural stimulation
- Spinal fluid drug pumps
- “Limited use therapy for the most severe or non-resolving pain that has not responded to conventional treatment, such as ketamine.”
- Acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, and other types of alternative medicine
How do you prepare my claim for damages?
Our CRPS lawyers have a network of CRPS doctors, therapists, and other healthcare professionals that we work with. We also work with the medical care providers who have been treating you so far. We discuss many different aspects of your CRPS with these healthcare providers. These aspects include:
- Confirming the diagnosis of CRPS and what specific type of CRPS you have.
- Reviewing the full range of medical care you will likely need.
- Reviewing which doctors and professionals can help you.
- Discussing the possible complications you may have.
- Discussing the type of pain and the severity of pain you have.
- Discussing all of the limitations your CRPS diagnosis is causing (and will cause), including your inability to function, work, enjoy your family, and enjoy your life.
- Itemizing the likely cost of all your medical care.
- Practical considerations such as transportation to and from your doctor’s offices, assistive help, and other factors.
We obtain statements from your employers about how much money you were making before your CRPS condition, your benefits, your healthcare coverage, and the income you will lose because of your CRPS. Our CRPS lawyers also work with financial professionals if you were self-employed at the time you developed CRPS.
Our lawyers may work with other damage experts, such as life care planners who can help address the long-term damage you will likely have if you are not likely to recover from your CRPS disorder.
When we have a full picture of all your financial damages and all your personal damages, we present the insurance carrier(s) with a settlement demand. We then work to negotiate a just and fair settlement (one that you approve of). If a settlement cannot be reached, we present your case in court before a judge and jury.
What damages can I receive?
We demand compensation for all your damages so far and all the damages you are reasonably likely to have for the rest of your life. These damages include the following:
Medical bills
Each hospital, doctor, and rehabilitative therapist who provides medical care for your CRPS charges a fee for their time. We keep a record of all these charges so far – and demand that the responsible person’s insurance carrier pay for these charges.
We also work with your doctors, as we discussed above, to estimate the cost of all the future medical care you will need. Medical care includes surgeries, doctor visits, hospital stays, rehabilitative care, psychological counseling, assistive devices, and medications. We demand that the responsible person’s insurance carriers pay for all of these future expenses. If your own healthcare insurance advanced these costs, we seek reimbursement for what they paid.
Pain and suffering
Your damages include the pain and suffering you experience for every one of the symptoms listed above and from enduring each treatment and the stress of each treatment. Your pain includes every time you cry, itch, feel any pain or discomfort, can’t sleep, can’t walk, feel anxious, feel depressed, or have any physical or emotional trauma. A lifetime of these treatments, pains, anxiety, and worries can take a huge toll.
Our CRPS lawyers demand compensation for every moment of pain and suffering you’ve experienced, and are likely to continue to suffer.
Lost income
Many CRPS victims can’t work while they’re receiving medical care because the pain is too much to perform their work tasks. With luck and a lot of effort, some victims may be able to return to work. Many victims can never work again. Our personal injury lawyers work with your employer and financial professionals to calculate all the money and benefits you’ve lost and will lose because you can’t work, including permanent disability compensation.
Other damages
We also seek damages for the following, depending on the scope and severity of your CRPS:
- Damages for any other injuries due to the negligent acts that caused your CRPS
- The loss of bodily function
- The inability to enjoy life’s pleasures
- Loss of consortium (loss of the comfort and intimacy of your spouse)
- Any property damage, such as damage to your car, if a car accident caused your CRPS
Contact us to speak with a CRPS lawyer today
We understand how hurt, upset, and scared you are. CRPS is a chronic health condition that requires a lot of money to treat. Without a paycheck, just buying food and meeting the home payments is likely to be a struggle. Your pain is often unbearable. We’re ready to help file your claim and fight for all the compensation you deserve.
Please call us or fill out our contact form to schedule a free consultation. We represent CRPS clients on a contingency fee basis. This means that our success depends on your success.