Introduction
Car accidents can potentially impact individuals on various levels, including their mental and physical health. The mental, emotional, and trauma associated with and following a given accident often has the potential to be just as debilitating as any injury sustained. The following article will attempt to illustrate the details surrounding car accident trauma, its imprints, effects, and the welfare of medical necromancy in aiding legal assets. An understanding of these facets helps attorneys strengthen their advocacy and ensure the clients receive adequate assistance in the recuperation process.
Definition of Car Accident Trauma
While the term car accident trauma denotes the body and head injuries, it also encompasses the psychological damage inflicted due to a car crash. The injury can further escalate in myriad ways which affects one’s mental prowess, emotional richness, and wellness.
Types of Trauma
• Physical Trauma: Injuries such as broken bones, neck sprain, and head concussions.
• Emotional Trauma: Impact includes emotional stressors such as mental health impairment including fear, depression, and PTSD.
Overview of Trauma Symptoms Resulting from Car Accidents
First Symptoms Observed
After a car accident, a patient may recall observing several of the following symptoms emerging:
• Shock and Disorientation: Experiencing the event is challenging, understanding it is next to impossible.
• Pain: Physical injuries sustained cause pain, and may be more injurious pain later on.
• Emotional Turmoil: Panic, agitation, anxiety.
Subsequent Symptoms
Disregarding these symptoms can set the stage for even worse outcomes:
• PTSD: Experienced memories/flashbacks along with vivid dreams and heightened stress anxiety.
• Anxiety Disorders: Constant concern and panic attacks triggered pertaining to driving.
• Depression: Emotions of powerlessness accompanied with disinterest or appetite for food.
Implications of Trauma Sustained from Car Accidents over Time
Effects on the Body
Chronic Pain Sufferers: Daily functioning becomes extremely hard because of undiagnosed conditions like fibromyalgia.
Disability: Some people are unable to move after a certain period of time and require medical assistance and treatment.
Psychological Effects
A person suffering cognitive disorders withdraw from life because: Iterator or suggestibility, the person is rendered defenseless. Social integration or handicap. Feeling of inferiority. Movement disorder. Identity disorder.
So much so that they become utterly devoid of communication, relations, birth and family, depression altogether.
How It Affects Inter-Personal Relationships
Car accident trauma often results in straining personal relationships resulting from difficulties related to trust, intimacy and communication.
Importance of the Review of Medical Records
Their Role in Court Proceedings
In personal injury claims, medical records serve the purpose of proving documented evidence of an injury or the treatment provided to the victim. Proper complete review of these documents promises lawyers such benefits as:
• Causation: Prove the experienced injuries were from the accident, and the medical treatment was due to the injury.
• Duration: Grasp the amount of on-going medical care necessity for the recuperation.
How Attorneys are assisted by Medical Records Review Services
• Screening the Case: Marking relevant key medical history and treatment plans pertaining to the case.
• Consultative insight: Medical doctors’ opinions regarding the injury’s relevancy and its effect on the survivor.
Recent Figures on Trauma from a Car Accident
The estimate made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cites that every year, about 4.4 million US citizens suffer injuries from car accidents. It is useful for lawyers to understand these statistics because they help comprehend the possible effects of trauma on their clients.
Case Studies
Case Study 1
Summary: A client was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident causing among others trauma to the brain, as well as numerous injuries.
Difficulties: The insurance company did not accept the extremity of the injuries claiming that they were highly over-exaggerated.
Solutions: We reviewed the claimant’s treatment history and provided expert testimony that substantiated the injury sustained during the accident.
Compensation: The attorney was able to negotiate a settlement for the client that included compensation for medical expenses, loss of wages, and pain and suffering.
Case Study 2:
Overview: A young lady suffered from severe emotional and psychological trauma caused by an accident which resulted in her developing severe anxiety and depression.
Challenges: The client was not able to establish the nexus between the accident and her mental health problems.
Solutions: We performed an in-depth analysis of the patient’s medical files and found chronicled patterns of the treatment and psychological evaluation that corresponded her symptoms with the event.
Compensation: The settlement provided was favorable as it incorporated coverage for therapy and compensation for emotional distress.
Conclusion
Car accidents have far-reaching implications physically and psychologically as well as emotionally for the survivor. Symptoms, consequences, and effects of a medical record review should always be of the primary concern for attorneys who work on these cases. Legal professionals can use medical records to create more impact driven cases that facilitate sufficient attention and funding for the needed healing on behalf of the victims.
