Life Changing Effects Of A Spinal Cord Injury

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A spinal cord injury can instantly change a person’s life. When a spinal injury occurs, a person may have physical, mental and emotional losses. Understanding these losses is one step in recovery and managing life after the injury. When you’re aware of the different ways that a spinal cord injury can change your life, you can take the steps to address them and build a new life in the best ways possible. Here are some of the life-changing effects of a spinal cord injury.

How Can A Spinal Cord Injury Affect A Person’s Life?

A spinal cord injury can affect a person’s life with physical limitations, additional medical care needs and pain and suffering. It can also impact a person’s career and their ability to work. In addition to tangible losses, a spinal cord injury can affect a person’s life by causing emotional devastation and mental suffering.

Here are just some of the life-changing effects of a spinal cord injury.

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    1. Medical Complications

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    A spinal cord injury can cause serious medical complications. The victim may have difficulty breathing. They may be unable to walk, and they may have a loss of bladder or bowel control. Medical complications may include a loss of mobility including paralysis.

    2. Loss Of Sensation

    The spinal cord relays signals between the brain and the body. When there is an injury, the victim may have a loss of feeling throughout the body. In turn, this can cause an inability to use the extremities and walk.

    3. Daily Tasks & Personal Care

    When a spinal cord injury causes medical complications, the victim may no longer be able to attend to daily tasks. They may need help making meals, brushing their teeth, doing the laundry and paying bills. All of the little, daily things that the victim used to take for granted may suddenly be hard. The victim may need physical therapy and home modifications in order to attend to their personal needs.

    Read More: How Do the Most Common Spinal Cord Injuries Occur?

    4.Motor Skills

    A spinal cord injury can impact the body’s ability to work together to perform large movements. With communication disruptions in the body, the body may not be able to communicate signals in order to work together. These complications can make it difficult to perform a variety of tasks.

    Just like gross motor skills can be impacted by a spinal cord injury, fine motor skills can be impacted, too. If fine motor skills are damaged by a spinal cord injury, it can impact daily life as well as the victim’s ability to work, write, drive a motor vehicle and more.

    6. Pain

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    A spinal cord injury can cause considerable pain. Sharp and dull pain, as well as stiffness can all be part of the fallout of an injury. Along with a new lifestyle, the pain management can become a significant portion of treatment for nerve and spine damage.

    Related: Spinal Cord Injuries and Damage

    7. Inability To Work/Changed Career Path

    When you suffer a spinal cord injury, you may be unable to work. It may be that your ability to work is disrupted for a period of time. You may need modified job duties. Short-term and long-term career changes and limitations can result from a spinal cord injury. This can also affect your long-term moneymaking capabilities, career-fulfillment, but not always.

    8. Ability To Have/Care For A Family

    A spinal cord injury can impact a victim’s ability to have a family. With quad- and paraplegia, a victim loses sensation and function of sexual reproductive organs. A spinal cord injury can also impact a victim’s ability to care for their family. Childcare tasks that were once simple may become difficult for the victim.

    9. Limitations On Recreation & Hobbies

    When a victim suffers a spinal cord injury, they are often unable to enjoy the things that they used to enjoy. They may no longer be able to ride a bike, ride their motorcycle, knit, cook or do 1,000 other things that they may enjoy. These limitations may significantly impact their quality of life.

    10. Mental Health Injuries

    Not all of the life-changing effects of a spinal cord injury are physical. Mental health injuries like anxiety, PTSD, depression, flashbacks and other mental health injuries are very real effects of a spinal cord injury. It is important to identify and treat the physical and mental effects of the injury.

    11. Shortened Life Expectancy

    A person who is the victim of a spinal cord injury may have a shorter life expectancy than the average person. There are a lot of factors that impact life expectancy, like smoking diet, exercise, heart health, and other genetic factors. A spinal cord injury is one factor that may come into play. The only thing is a injury is certainly avoidable, especially if negligence was involved.

    12. Changes For The Entire Family

    It’s not just the injured person that may feel the effect of a spinal cord injury. The entire family routine may change to help their loved one. The entire family may have changes to their routine because of the injuries. In some cases, the injured person may go from being a caregiver to needing help. This increase in dependency on others can drastically take a toll on one’s quality of life.

    13. Uncertainty For The Future

    An injury to the spinal cord may cause uncertainty. Some people recover or improve from their injuries. In any case, the prognosis may be uncertain.

    14. Continued Medical Treatment

    A person who suffers a spinal cord injury typically needs more medical treatment than if they had not suffered the injury. In fact, the victim may need intense medical care for years to come. A victim of a personal injury accident can claim compensation for current medical bills as well as anticipated medical bills in the days, weeks and years to come.

    For a person who suffers a spinal cord injury, they’re likely to spend the coming months quickly learning medical information and terminology. Of course, learning these things is important to understanding how to take charge of your own recovery. A person who suffers a spinal cord injury is likely to quickly become an expert in their own medical injuries and course of treatment. This is something that likely would not be part of one’s life had they never been severely injured negligently.

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    If you’ve suffered an accident with a spinal cord injury, we invite you to reach out to our team of personal injury attorneys. Our attorneys can evaluate your case and help you determine if you may deserve a payment from the person or parties who are responsible for the accident. We offer free and confidential consultations for all spinal cord injury victims.

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