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Personal injury lawyers in Sudbury might refer to a long-term injury as a long-lasting medical problem or a residual condition. Regardless of the name used to describe such an ongoing problem, it could increase the size of the compensable losses for the damages that were caused by a given accident. The effects linked to the same damages could impact the life of the victim. There is a long list of possible effects.
Possible effects of residual injury
• Harm to a body part that the victim must use, when carrying out his or her job responsibilities
• Introduction of potential need for future medical care or treatments
• A diminished level of flexibility or mobility; or a diminished demonstration of balance
• Recurring pain
How effects might impact life of victim
The diminished level of flexibility, along with the diminished demonstration of balance could increase as the age of the affected victim increased. The frequency for the recurring pain could increase as the age of the affected victim increased.
The methods used during any future medical treatments might trigger a slow reduction in the level of performance for a given body system, including any system or organ that provided the body with one of its 5 senses.
Documentation could help a personal injury lawyer to highlight the value of a long-lasting condition.
A note that a physician has placed in the medical record of the lawyer’s client could serve as one form of documentation.
A note stating the likelihood for a recurrence, or for the emergence of a complication could also function as a form of documentation, if placed in the patient’s medical record.
The above types of documentation could not prove useful, unless the claimant had taken the time to visit a doctor, a hospital or a clinic within the 24-hour period that followed the reported accident.
Possible features of symptoms associated with residual injury
Frequently, such an injury has late-appearing symptoms. If no doctor had seen the affected patient, right after the accident, when there were few visible symptoms, that same doctor could find it difficult to determine the reason for the late appearing symptom.
The new symptom might introduce the need for a more vigorous treatment; alternatively, it might suggest the emergence of a complication. In either case, the prescribed treatment could have a long-lasting effect. That would certainly be true, if the physician were to prescribe antibiotics that must be administered IV.
An experience ENT specialist should be able to share the results of such a treatment. It affects the sense of hearing. The treated patient begins to lose his or her sense of hearing sometime between the age of 60 and the arrival of the same patient’s 70th birthday.