Articles Posted in Spinal Cord Injury

In my law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, we get inquiries about hospital, nursing home or home health care patients who die or suffer serious injuries due to being entrapped in a gap between the mattress and guard rail in a hospital bed. If you have ever spent night after night in a hospital room keeping…

As a trial lawyer in Georgia, I have often represented people who became quadriplegic or paraplegic due to traumatic spinal cord injury.  The lack of effective treatments to reverse spinal cord damage has condemned people with such injuries to life in a wheelchair, or worse. Now, nanotechnology researchers at Northwestern University  are working on a…

A former Marine who holds degrees in chemical engineering, business and law was paralyzed  in Los Angeles eight years ago because a  horizontal bar of weights fell due to the fact that no adjustable safety stops were installed on the machine.  Suits against Gold’s Gym, Flex (equipment manufacturer) and an insurance company ultimately resulted in total…

When I was a young lawyer there was a very busy quadriplegic trial lawyer in Atlanta named Stan Nylen.  He made his was from courthouse to courthouse in an “Ironsides” van and driver/attendant. Stan could raise one hand just enough to extend two fingers to shake hands. “Old war horse” lawyers in Atlanta have quite…

Here is another one of those stories about a spinal cord injury survivor that is both heart breaking and inspirational — a former high school cheerleader paralyzed in a freak accident who is focused on her physical therapy, hoping for the day that stem cell treatment might help her. She has even gone scuba diving.…

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, often representing survivors of  spinal cord injuries,  both paraplegia and quadriplegia, I have dealth  with effects of such injuries about which most people know nothing. Among those are pressure sores, muscle spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia. Of course, this brief post is not medical advice, just an expression of…

  As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georiga, representing clients who have  spinal cord injuries,  both paraplegia and quadriplegia, I have  become familiar with effects of such injuries about which most people know nothing. Among those are muscle spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia. Of course, this incomplete and over-simplified post cannot constitute medical advice, only an…

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georiga, working with clients who have suffered spinal cord injuries, including both paraplegia and quadriplegia, I have  found a wide array of effects of such injury about which most people know nothing. One of those is autonomic dysreflexia. Of course, this incomplete and over-simplified post cannot constitute medical advice,…

Medical research in Portugal is exploring the possibility that olfactory nerve stem cells from a spinal cord injury patient may be used to repair the spinal cord injury.  The idea behind the procedure is that the nasal tissue has nerve cells that can regenerate. The Shigley Law Firm  represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic…

Research on rats with crushed spinal cords suggests potential for a new treatment protocol soon after injury combining radiation therapy to destroy harmful cells and microsurgery to drain excess fluids significantly increases the body’s ability to repair the injured cord leading to permanent recovery from injury.   When a midline incision was performed on the spinal…