Sometimes when people suffer a slip-and-fall injury or are involved in a car accident, they feel fine immediately after, but a day or week later realize they are hurt. Delayed symptoms or delayed-onset injuries are surprisingly common, and they are one of the primary reasons that the Bronx personal injury law firm of Feiner & Lavy always recommends that anyone involved in a slip-and-fall or automobile accident get checked out by a medical professional immediately.
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As the victim of a slip-and-fall accident or car accident, you or a loved one may have experienced a soft-tissue injury like whiplash, which is “a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck.” Personal injury lawyers see injuries of this nature frequently. In the excitement after an incident, your body protects itself, and your nerves and muscles haven’t yet registered a severe injury. However, usually in one-to-three days, symptoms will appear out of nowhere. This is when you learn how severe your injuries may be. These soft-tissue injuries can take years to heal and require several days each week of treatment to finally correct, if they are correctable at all.
While we counsel clients to get checked out immediately after an accident, a medical practitioner may not identify a soft-tissue injury right away. These aren’t like broken bones that are quite visible. It may mean that you are going back to a hospital, doctor’s office or urgent care facility two or three times after an accident. This is why it is vital that you do not sign a release offered to you by the driver of the vehicle that struck you, a building owner or a lawyer representing the person who caused your injury that promises you won’t sue because you’re not hurt.
Because delayed-onset injuries can take days or even weeks to emerge, they could be very serious. During that time when you seem fine, you could be straining the injury time and again through ordinary activity, and this can lead to a longer time for the injury to heal once it has been identified and treatment begins.
One of the things a personal injury specialist, like the lawyers at Feiner & Lavy, know is that too many people are left paying for their own care when someone else injures them. Contacting a highly qualified personal injury firm after you suffer an injury in the Bronx is the first step in preserving your rights and enabling you to make a claim, so you are not shelling out money for an injury caused by someone else.
Some common delayed symptoms may include headaches, body aches or stiffness, muscle spasms or twitching, or shooting pain, numbness or a tingling sensation. In the case of head injuries, delayed on-set symptoms could include headaches, memory loss or concentration issues and balance problems.
If you or a loved one has been injured and need a lawyer who will fight for your injury, contact Feiner & Lavy today. With more than 80 years of combined experience, we have a broad range of resources available to help you win the settlement you deserve. We are a local Bronx personal injury law firm that knows our courts, our borough and our clients. We pride ourselves on our level of determination and will not stop until our clients’ cases are resolved with the highest possible payout. If you believe you have been injured at the hands of another, call us today at 212-393-9130 for a free consultation.
