How Orthopedic Surgeons Play a Vital Role in Personal Injury Recovery

People get injured in various ways from multiple causes, including impact injuries from sports, straining and spraining tissue from lifting, exercising, or awkward movements, and fracturing bones from falls and impacting other objects or people. When the damage happens because of another person, and you need medical help, it becomes an issue of personal injury.

Depending on the extent of the damage, this kind of injury can take an expensive toll and require medical help to recover from, especially if it’s keeping you from working and you’re trying to stay afloat. We can help you on the road to improve your health. To find out more, let’s have a look at the types of personal injury out there and what we can do to treat them.

If you live in the Fort Worth, Texas, area and need treatment for a personal injury, Dr. Joseph Daniels and his team at Southwest Orthopedic Services can help.

Types of personal injury

In legal terms, when referring to bodily harm from personal injury, it generally falls under a negligence, strict liability, or intentional wrong claim, covering the different areas of responsibility on the part of the person(s) responsible for the incident. Medically, it means you’re dealing with the effects of accidents, assault, malpractice, or abuse, leading to problems like:

Tissue damage

This includes many different injuries, such as abrasions, lacerations, tissue swelling, bleeding, and burns, and the pain associated with them.

Musculoskeletal damage

This specifically refers to damage to the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other tissue in your joints and other areas connected to bone. This can lead to sprains, strains, tears, problems moving joints, or complete joint immobility.

Bone fractures or breaks

If an impact hits hard enough, it can cause the bones to develop small cracks or significant breaks, leading to problems moving those parts of the body and moderate to severe pain.

Orthopedic services to manage those problems

When dealing with these issues, we can help you with medical treatment options like

• Urgent care: for injuries severe enough to need immediate attention

• Regenerative medicine: minimally invasive treatments to help the body heal itself

• Joint replacement: if harm to joints is so severe that other options aren’t enough

• Physical therapy: restoring full function and mobility to injured parts of the body using exercises and massage therapies

Getting yourself back to good health after injury is essential for preventing the damage from getting worse, and having a medical team that can work with any legal representation you have to speak directly on your condition and the prognosis of the harm done to you is vital. 

If you’re struggling to cope with the effects of accidents, abuse, or other types of personal injury, make an appointment with Dr. Daniels and the staff at Southwest Orthopedic Associates today.