Ontario Whiplash Lawyers
When you suffer soft tissue injuries in a motor vehicle accident, the constant pain can affect your life in many debilitating ways, including taking away your ability to go to work or spend quality time with your family. Unfortunately, soft tissue injuries and chronic pain are often delayed, sometimes becoming apparent days, weeks and even months after the initial accident occurs.
At Strype Barristers LLP in Toronto, we understand that insurers are often reluctant to accept the reality of this debilitating pain and the impact it can have on your life. We retain specialists in rehabilitative medicine and soft tissue injuries to help you in two ways:
- Presenting evidence in order to prove your injuries
- Helping you manage the painful effects of your injuries
Measuring Chronic Pain
In the context of personal injury claims, pain is measured by the ability of a person to function. We will work with you to prove your claims based upon the impact your chronic pain is having on your daily life. We have won successful verdicts at trial by proving to the judge and jury that these injuries are real and compensable.
In most cases, chronic pain is really the primary symptom of fibromyalgia, a common condition characterized by long-term, body-wide pain and tender points in joints, muscles, tendons and other soft tissues. This condition has been linked to a number of problems that can wreak havoc on lives of the people experiencing it, including fatigue, sleep problems, headaches, numbness in hands and feet, depression and anxiety.
Our firm has access to medical professionals who specialize in handling chronic pain injuries. We can help you find specialized clinics where you can be seen by doctors who can document the severity of your condition and bolster your claim to rehabilitation and compensation.
Whiplash
By far the most common soft tissue injury, whiplash associated disorder (WAD) is broken into three categories by the Quebec Task Force guidelines, utilized in the consideration of such an injury in Ontario: WAD 1, WAD 2 and WAD 3. It is crucial to receive an accurate diagnosis of your whiplash condition. In some cases, family doctors will want to be more optimistic about a patient's prognosis, but this can actually be detrimental when seeking benefits for a WAD injury.
We welcome the opportunity to speak with you about your situation and inform you of your rights. Contact us for a free initial consultation with a Toronto soft tissue injury lawyer.
