Spinal cord injuries happen when a traumatic event results in damage to cells within the spinal cord or severs the nerve tracts that relay signals up and down the spinal cord. The most common types of cord injuries are contusion (bruising of the spinal cord), compression (pressure on the spinal cord), lacerations (severing or tearing of some nerve fibers), and central cord syndrome (specific damage to the corticospinal tracts of the cervical region of the spinal cord).
Our lawyers represent clients in Chicago and in cities across the state of Illinois who have spinal cord injuries that result in quadriplegia and paraplegia as well as people with less serious injuries to the neck and spine. Some of the spinal cord injuries that occur are the result of: