A broken tailbone is one of the most common injuries that occurs as a result of a slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall. These types of injuries, even though they may not be life-threatening, are extremely painful making everyday activities such as sitting, standing, lying down, sleeping or bending over quite challenging. Many who suffer such injuries require some form of pain management.
In some cases, individuals may even need surgery along with physical therapy and long periods of rest and recovery. If you have injured your tailbone in a slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall accident, it is important that you seek the counsel of an experienced New York City slip-and-fall accident lawyer to obtain more information about pursuing your legal rights.
How to Recognize a Tailbone Injury
A tailbone injury, also known as a coccyx injury, results in pain and discomfort to the tailbone area. These injuries may cause a bruise, dislocation or fracture (break) of the coccyx or tailbone. The coccyx is the triangular bony structure located at the very bottom of the vertebral column. It is composed of three to five bony segments held in place by joints and ligaments.
A majority of tailbone injuries tend to occur in women because the female pelvis is broader and the tailbone is more exposed. The most common cause of tailbone injuries is slipping and falling or tripping and falling such as a fall onto the tailbone in the seated position, usually against a hard surface. Some of the symptoms of a tailbone injury include pain in the posterior area, numbness that may spread down to your feet, pain when trying to sit, crouch, squat or lie down, loss of bladder control or pain when emptying your bowels, leg weakness and lower back pain.
If you are experiencing the signs and symptoms of a tailbone injury after a fall, it is important that you seek medical attention right away. Injuries to the tailbone may require a visit to the emergency department. It is a good idea to call your doctor or visit the nearest hospital’s emergency department to get a diagnosis and create a medical record of your injuries.
Tailbone Injury Settlements
If a tailbone is fractured or broken, the recovery may take several weeks or even months. Pain may last for a year or longer. In some cases, patients may need steroid injections or even surgery. Such treatment may take six months or more for the symptoms to begin to improve. In some cases, people who have suffered tailbone injuries never recover.
The average settlement for a tailbone injury may depend on a number of factors including the circumstances of your fall, the nature and extent of the injuries you have suffered and the extent of negligence (carelessness) on the part of the property owner or manager. For example, if your severe tailbone injury was caused by a liquid spill in a supermarket aisle, you may have a personal injury claim against the owner and/or manager of the store. Your injury settlement may also depend on how your tailbone injury affects your ability to work and enjoy life, how much time you had to take off work to recover, etc.
Contacting an Experienced Lawyer
If you were involved in a slip-and-fall or a trip-and-fall accident as a result of someone else’s negligence (carelessness), please remember that you have rights. Some of the damages that victims of such accidents can claim include, but are not limited to, medical expenses, loss of wages and benefits, cost of hospitalization, surgery, physical therapy, past and future pain and suffering, permanent injury, etc.
The experienced New York personal injury attorneys with the Law Offices of Kenneth A. Wilhelm can help you better understand your legal rights and options and also fight hard to recover just compensation for you. For nearly 50 years, our skilled attorneys have established a proven track record of helping injured victims.
Our law firm recovered $1,700,000 for a woman who slipped and fell and received no hospital or medical treatment for one month after the accident. Our law firm also recently recovered $5,600,000 for a bicyclist who was hit by a van, and $2,550,000 for another victim of a truck accident, and $3,000,000 for a pedestrian who was hit by a car, and the full $1,000,000 insurance policy for a pedestrian who was hit by a truck, and $4,625,000 for a driver who was in a car and was hit by a van, and $2,500,000 for a man who fell through an improperly secured hole. Also, one of our clients obtained a verdict for $43,940,000 and another of our clients got a verdict for $23,500,000, both in medical malpractice cases.
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