Our Post Falls car accident attorney can help your case: we know that following a car-crash injury, you are likely in pain and worried about how to pay mounting medical bills and household expenses. Some injuries are severe enough to be life-altering; requiring complex medical procedures and the need for ongoing physical and psychological therapy. Injuries that commonly occur as a result of a car accident include:

• Soft tissue injuries: These can range from bruises to sprains (partial tears to the ligament). One of the potentially more serious is whiplash, which is described by the Mayo Clinic as “a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip.” It can lead to chronic pain and other complications.
• Broken bones: Commonly sustained broken bones in a car accident include collarbone (clavicle) and sternum fractures; pelvic fractures; and facial bones, including broken noses, cheekbones, and orbital bones (the bony structure around the eye), which may cause disfigurement. Skull (cranial) fractures are among the most dangerous because of the potential for brain damage.
• Burn injuries: A severe burn is among the most painful of all injuries. Skin is the largest organ on the body, responsible for protecting the body from germs and contaminants, while also regulating body temperature. Burns do more than damage the skin, they leave the body open to serious, life-threatening infection.
• Back and neck injuries: Lower back (lumbar) sprains and lumbar spine injuries are common. A National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) study showed that of all enrollees in the study 64.8 percent suffered lumbosacral spine issues from a car accident.
• Brain injuries: Concussions are another common injury in a car crash. Signs and symptoms may not show up immediately. Danger signs include loss of consciousness, loss of balance or coordination, memory loss, increased anxiety or emotional extremes. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) occur when an outside force disrupts normal brain function and in extreme cases, may lead to coma and an extended vegetative state, or even death.
• Spinal injuries: In extreme cases, a spinal injury can lead to paralysis: monoplegia, which affects only one limb; hemiplegia, in which one side of the body is paralyzed; paraplegia, or paralysis of the lower half of the body; and quadriplegia (or tetraplegia), in which most of the body is paralyzed, including both arms and legs.

After you have been in a car accident, it is just a matter of time before the other party’s insurance adjuster contacts you. A word of advice: Do not talk to them. It is their job to get you to admit some guilt and say things that you may not mean—or that they will either take out of context or twist into something else. Call us at 208-981-0555. Let us do the talking for you. We know how to make sure that your rights are protected, and that you get the justice you deserve.