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If you’ve suffered a body or limb injury, there is a good chance that you are entitled to compensation. Because body and limb injuries often impair victims’ ability to work and even care for themselves, these injuries can receive hefty sums as compensation.

Have you suffered a body and/or limb injury?
These injuries can happen in a number of ways, from auto accidents to sports accidents to job site accidents- any situation in which the body or limbs is being struck, twisted, crushed, or wrenched. The symptoms of these injuries can be easy or very difficult to spot:

• Compound fractures or dislocations
• Severed limbs or body parts
• Cracked bones
• Sprains, strains, or torn muscles
• Internal muscle or organ damage

What are the results of body and limb injuries?
In nearly all cases, body and limb injuries mean the victim loses some use of their body or limbs, temporarily or permanently. A broken bone can often equal time lost from work and, if the injury is severe enough, a stay in the hospital and a lengthy rehabilitation. A severed limb can result in a loss of work, significant emotional trauma, and months with a physical therapist. Of course, this means massive medical bills and loss of income.

What should you do if you have a body and limb injury?
After first getting primary medical care, contact a legal professional. Many attorneys specialize in obtaining compensation for body and limb injury victims and will give you a free case consultation.

Foot injuries occur during falls, car accidents, work related accidents, and while playing sports. The most common cause of foot injury is trauma. Other causes include overuse and improper footwear, as well as poor posture, medical conditions, high impact sports, and industrial cumulative stress (repetitive stress) such as police work, serving food and other jobs that require standing and walking for long periods of time.

Foot injuries include strains, sprains, broken and crushed bones, amputations, and toe and ankle injuries. Foot injuries are often frustrating to heal because the patient must rely on crutches or a wheelchair in order to move. Also, the lower back is greatly affected by foot pain. Physical therapy is usually an important part of the healing process.

Your feet have more than two-dozen bones and joints, and although the bones are tiny, they still have to bear the weight of the entire body. Foot injuries can be as minor as athlete’s foot and warts or as major as more serious complications that require amputation of toes or the entire foot.

Some common foot injuries include:

• corns and calluses; noticeable because of yellowish skin
• ingrown toenails; noticeable by nails curling into skin
• Morton’s neuroma; noticeable because of cramping and burning pain
• Hammertoe; toes form in hammer or claw shape
• stress fracture; sudden and persistent pain
• flat feet; no arch
• Haglund’s deformity; painful swelling on back of heel caused by shoes

Foot injuries can often be difficult to diagnose and treat. Doctors have to be very knowledgeable about the 26 bones, 32 joints and more than 100 tendons, ligaments and muscles that make the foot. Misdiagnosis is a common occurrence. This includes misinterpreting X-rays, incorrectly fitting casts or splints, removing casts or splints too early, prescribing the wrong medication, not advising patients of all their options, not referring patients to specialists, and even performing unnecessary amputations. Medical malpractice attorneys can inform you of your rights regarding foot injuries and answer any questions you have.