New Mexico Nerve Damage

Nerves are small fibers running throughout the body that transmit signals to the spinal cord and/or brain. They play a role in just about everything we do - from coordinating movement to sensing pain and other stimuli and controlling automated functions like respiration. When you’re involved in a car accident in New Mexico, some of your 7 trillion nerves can become badly damaged.

Potential results can include pain, limited mobility, temporary or permanent paralysis, and, in some situations, death. If you've suffered nerve damage in an accident, a car crash lawyer in Albuquerque can help you navigate the legal process.

What Causes Nerve Damage?

Nerve damage, which is also known as peripheral neuropathy, can occur when a nerve is compressed, cut, stretched, or crushed in a car accident. 

The most common mechanisms of injury include blunt force trauma and unnatural twisting.

• Blunt Force Trauma: In a crash, it’s not uncommon to suffer blunt force trauma as your body makes contact with parts of the vehicle, road surfaces, flying debris, or even vehicle restraints like seatbelts and airbags. 
• Unnatural Twisting: Your body can twist and contort unnaturally as it absorbs force from the collision, is ejected from the vehicle, or is crushed as the vehicle collapses in on itself.

Depending on the location of the injury and the extent of the damage to the nerve, these injuries can resolve over time or leave victims to struggle with life-long complications. 

Nerve damage resulting from a car accident be treated with tricyclic antidepressants, anti-seizure medications, pain relief medications, medications designed to treat autoimmune disorders, as well as acupuncture, physical therapy, and/or surgery. 

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Nerve Damage?

Depending on which types of nerves have been damaged and what part of the body has been affected, potential signs and symptoms of this type of injury include:

• Numbness and tingling in the extremities
• Difficulty walking
• Tremors
• Muscle weakness
• Burning
• Sensitivity
• Incontinence
• Slowed reflexes
• Radiating pain
• Cramps
• Vision problems
• Slurred speech
• Memory loss
• Paralysis

Sometimes more obvious injuries - like cuts and lacerations, broken bones, and head injuries - can make it difficult to identify and diagnose nerve damage injuries. It’s always important to seek prompt medical care after a car accident in New Mexico to ensure that all of your injuries - obvious or not - are diagnosed as soon as possible. 

Recovering Compensation For Your Nerve Damages Injuries After a New Mexico Crash

When you suffer nerve damage injuries in a New Mexico car accident because someone else is careless, you deserve to be compensated. 

At Singleton Schreiber, our New Mexico car accident lawyers can help you file an insurance claim or lawsuit to seek damages for your medical treatment, lost wages and disability, rehabilitation, out-of-pocket costs, and harder-to-value trauma like pain and suffering. 

We’ve helped our clients win billions of dollars in monetary awards. Now, we’re here to help get the compensation you need for your nerve damage and other crash-related injuries.  We represent crash victims across the state of New Mexico, so contact one of our law offices in Albuquerque, Clovis, Hobbs, Las Vegas, Los Lunas, Mora, or Ruidoso to set a time for a free consultation now.