Can a car accident damage your rotator cuff?
We help people who have been injured through no fault of their own, but the healing process can take months. The sooner you get treatment for a rotator cuff injury or surgery to repair the damage, means faster recovery and less pain!
Injuries to the arms and shoulders, such as rotator cuff tears, are some of the most common types of trauma suffered in car crashes. While these injuries can seem minor at first, patients often take a long time to recover. Untreated rotator cuff tears can worsen and cause chronic pain over time.
The rotator cuff is a cluster of four tendons that keeps your upper arm bone in its socket in your shoulder blade. In addition to keeping your arm in place, these tendons allow you to lift and rotate your arm freely.
Can a Georgia Car Accident Cause Rotator Cuff Injury?
Injuries to the arms and shoulders, such as rotator cuff tears, are some of the most common types of trauma suffered in car crashes. While these injuries can seem minor at first, patients often take a long time to recover because untreated torn tendons worsen over time causing chronic pain. What is a rotator cuff tear? The rotator cuffs help keep our upper arm bones secure within their sockets while also allowing us freedom when it comes to lifting or rotating them from side to side.
What are the symptoms of a rotator cuff injury?
Often, acute tears cause excruciating pain and weakness in your upper arm. Other common signs include soreness while resting or laying on it directly, general weakness when elevating or rotating your affected limb even if no pain is present. Crepitus (a crackling sensation) can also occur as tendons tear away from each other.
Rotator cuff tears are not only associated with a deep sense of pain, but also weakness in the arm and possible sensations like crepitus. The symptoms can be debilitating for some patients while others may get by without any trouble at all. There is no universal treatment that works on everyone or even an established time frame when it comes to rehabilitation; those factors depend entirely on how severe your injury was from start to finish — as well as personal fitness levels before the tear occurred and what other injuries you were dealing with during recovery efforts following surgery.
Injuries to the arms and shoulders, such as rotator cuff tears, are some of the most common types of trauma suffered in car crashes. While these injuries can seem minor at first, patients often take a long time to recover. Untreated rotator cuff tears can worsen and cause chronic pain over time.
The rotator cuff is a cluster of four tendons that keeps your upper arm bone in its socket in your shoulder blade. In addition to keeping your arm in place, these tendons allow you to lift and rotate your arm freely.
Poor driving habits have always been a major cause of car crashes and this is no different when it comes to the rotator cuff. The force from an impact can be absorbed throughout your arm, even through relatively minor collisions with steering wheels or seats in anticipation of what’s about to happen. When these forces are applied on top of one another at such high speeds they place extreme stress on our tendons which then leads to full or partial tears that may require surgery if not properly cared for overtime.
At The Law Office of W. Bryant Green III P.C., you’ll find a team with the experience and sensitivity to handle your rotator cuff injury case well, including preserving critical evidence for trial in order to maximize award potential while caring for your needs as we move forward step by step towards recovery through communication and helping you get treatment from qualified medical professionals who understand what it’s like firsthand.
Our Georgia car accident lawyers can help you with your free initial case review if you call us or if you contact us online now. www.bryantgreenandassociates.com or call (404) 522–5330