There are many specific injuries that can affect your life and potentially start a court proceeding. These include:
• Brain and head injuries (including facial) – This could cover anything from severe brain damage, to temporary loss of vision and dental injuries. Injuries to the brain and head can also include minor head injuries, and also the loss of sight in one or both eyes permanently. Other cases include fractures to the frontal bones (or forehead area), and fractures to the jaw, nose and cheekbone.
• Neck and spine injuries – Whiplash is a very common and difficult injury to diagnose. When making a claim, the time taken to recover is taken into account along with the time it takes to return to work. Other injuries can be neck injuries involving fractures to the bones in the neck, ruptured tendons leading to a permanent disability and spinal injuries resulting in some form of paralysis due to trauma.
• Shoulder injuries – Shoulder injuries often affect work. Those involved in manual work may not be able to work at all, whilst others may experience enough discomfort to be handicapped in their job also. Specific shoulder injuries include a severe injury involving some kind of significant disability, injuries that involve a moderate discomfort and reoccurring symptoms, and minor injuries where a complete recovery is made, but mild damage to the muscle/tissue took place.
• Internal and pelvic injuries – Internal injuries cover trauma and exposure to hazardous substances of the internal organs. Including the heart, lungs (asbestos related cases and asthma from the workplace), male and female reproduction system, digestive system, bowels, spleen, bladder and hernia. Pelvic injuries will be assessed on the severity of the damage and its effect on other internal organs.
• Back injuries – Back injuries are judged by the severity of the injury, its affect on mobility, whether surgery was required and time taken, if at all, till a full recovery.
• Injuries to limbs – These include injuries to arms, legs, hands, wrists, ankles and feet. Typical arm and leg examples could include fractures, loss of use or amputation, injury to joints (elbow and knee) and reoccurring injuries. Hand injuries are often loss of use or amputation one or both hands, minor or major fractures, finger injuries. An ankle and/or foot injury is most commonly a sprain, but can be anything from a broken toe to an amputated foot. As is the case with all injuries, the severity and time taken to recover dictates at what degree the claim will be made.
• Sensory Loss – Loss of senses such as smell, touch, sight (see head injuries) taste and hearing.
• Burns and scalds – Can affect any part of the body.
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