Depending upon the specific medical history and medical condition of an individual with multiple sclerosis (MS), physical trauma can affect the trajectory of the condition. Slip-and-fall and car accident-related physical trauma can exacerbate multiple sclerosis. It is critical that if you have multiple sclerosis and suffer a physical injury that you hire an attorney with significant experience representing individuals with multiple sclerosis in personal injury matters.
The multiple sclerosis medical community has offered a wide spectrum of opinions as to whether physical trauma can exacerbate multiple sclerosis. Because there is a wide spectrum of medical opinions on the effect of physical trauma on multiple sclerosis patients, an individual should be examined by a medical doctor and speak with an attorney as soon as possible in order to preserve a successful personal injury claim.
Physical injuries resulting from falls can produce swelling edema with fluid collection and the release of cytokinesa, prostaglandins, and inflammation in the normal population. This reaction can trigger both inflammatory demyelinating and non-demyelinating changes which can make a stable patient with MS relapse and have several episodes which are progressive and change the disease’s direction.[1]
In order for an individual with multiple sclerosis to have a successful personal injury claim, the individual needs the right set of facts and corroborating medical testimony to be fully compensated for his/her injuries. The attorneys at Guendelsberger Law Offices have successfully litigated physical trauma exacerbated multiple sclerosis cases.
The personal injury attorneys at Guendelsberger Law Offices have the necessary knowledge and experience to successfully litigate personal injury claims involving trauma exacerbated multiple sclerosis.
[1] Weintraub, M.I.: Trauma and Multiple Sclerosis: Medico-Legal Implications. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 30:407-408, 1988.
C.M. Poser: The Role of trauma in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis: A review. Clin Nerve *NSX 1994; 30:103-110.