Steve Johnson
Spinal Injury
Spinal cord injuries are caused in many things — by accidents, gunshots, falls, diseases such as polio or spina bifida, medications or, occasionally, by surgery. The spinal cord is composed of a large bundle of nerves that runs down your back in the Vertibrae. It is this “network” transmits sensation and controls your body movements. If this network is damaged, it can result in the loss of mobility, as well as the loss of feeling below the area that was injured. In some cases, a spinal cord injury can be fatal.
How Can We Help !
The spinal cord injury survivors who we represent are people going through the most difficult time in their lives and facing an uncertain future. Spinal cord injury survivors need support and a forceful personal injury attorney who will advocate on their behalf for full compensation that they deserve.
How Do You Know You Need a Lawyer?
Due to Steve Johnson's extensive experience, knowledge and track record of success, many families turn to him when their loved ones have endured significant and life-changing injuries such as brain damage and spinal cord injuries. The effects of a spinal cord injury can range from numbness in your extremities to complete paralysis, and the compensation needed to facilitate a victim's recovery varies greatly from one case to another. Our attorneys understand the harm of complex spinal cord injuries, and we have the experience and the commitment to advocate for the compensation to protect your needs. Any physical trauma that crushes or compresses the vertebrae in the neck can cause irreversible damage at the cervical level of the spinal cord and below. Injuries occurring this high up will likely cause paralysis throughout the body, including both arms and legs (this condition is called quadriplegia because it affects all four limbs). Spinal cord damage in the middle back (the thoracic or lumbar area) can cause paralysis that is limited to the lower half of the body and the legs (a condition called paraplegia because it affects two limbs).
Spinal injuries are especially serious because so many of them result in permanent effects. Because these injuries so often involve our nervous system—which does not regenerate like other parts of the body—those who suffer a catastrophic spine injury must often suffer its effects for the rest of their lives.