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- Wilkes-Barre
- 15 South Franklin Street
- Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
- TEL: 570.826.5600
- FAX: 570.826.5640
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- Scranton
- 120 Wyoming Avenue
- Scranton, PA 18503
- TEL: 570.341.5600
- FAX: 570.347.9883
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- Hazleton
- 120 East Broad Street
- West Hazleton, PA 18202
- TEL: 570.455.7112
- FAX: 570.455.8304
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Northeastern Pennsylvania and Pocono Mountains Region Personal Injury Lawyer for RSD Lawsuits
Most people do not know what Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) is until it touches their life in some way. Caused by damage to the nervous system, it is a rare condition that causes great pain and potentially the loss of functionality in the affected limb. Since RSD is often precipitated by a personal injury for which some person or organization other than the victim is responsible, this debilitating condition often motivates civil lawsuits. Our firm, the largest serving northeast Pennsylvania and the Pocono Mountains, can help you by providing a personal injury lawyer to pursue your case aggressively and make it possible for you to overcome RSD.
The Nature of RSD
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy — also called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I, or CRPS I — is something of a mystery to doctors even today. Though the medical community does not fully understand the exact biomechanics of this condition, its causes and effects have been identified, as well as some means of treating it. Most often, the disease develops after a personal injury that involves trauma to the nervous system. Though RSD is rare, the injury that brings it on need not be severe. Those who experience some degree of paralysis of just one side of the body following a personal injury are much more likely to suffer from the disease.
Symptoms of RSD include burning pain, swelling, redness, abnormal sweating, extreme sensitivity to touch, and loss of movement in the limb affected by the injury that caused the condition. These symptoms can be excruciating and permanent if not properly treated; worse, the fact that RSD is poorly understood means that many victims are not properly diagnosed in a timely manner. The result is that many people who thought they would recover quickly after sustaining a personal injury are faced with long and debilitating treatment periods, during which they often cannot work or function as they normally would.
Life after RSD
Despite the insidious and crippling nature of RSD, a better future is possible for many victims who act quickly to address the problem. Our northeastern Pennsylvania and Pocono Mountains area firm and its personal injury lawyer team is dedicated to helping clients do just that. Medication and electrical stimulation can help to alleviate the pain symptoms, and long-term improvement (even a cure in some cases) can be achieved through dedicated treatment.
Unfortunately, medical treatment is expensive and time-consuming, and a personal injury as damaging as RSD can prevent the victim from working for long periods of time. Having the financial means to work towards recovery is therefore just as important as having the will and drive to do so. If your case of RSD was brought about by someone else’s negligence — for instance, in a car accident or truck accident in which you sustained a personal injury and were not at fault — a lawsuit may help you move on and begin to heal.
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Through legal action, you may be able to acquire compensation for lost wages, medical expenses associated with your personal injury, pain and suffering, and in some case punitive damages. You can help give your lawsuit its best chance to succeed by contacting Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald, L.L.P. at one of our four locations in the Pocono Mountains area of northeast Pennsylvania. A personal injury lawyer from our firm will be glad to assist you in any way possible as you seek to return to normal life.