When someone suffers a serious injury that involves a significant amount of physical trauma, they can sometimes develop a condition known as compartment syndrome. It is often a medical emergency and can even be fatal. It is known as acute compartment syndrome when it...
Month: October 2023
Distance to the hospital plays a major role in car accidents
Any car accident can lead to serious injuries. But that doesn’t mean that every car accident has the same chance of leading to a fatality. Often, there are many factors in play outside of the specific injuries that were suffered or how the crash took place. For...
Paralysis is not the only warning of spinal cord injury
People frequently believe that a spinal cord injury is easy to self-diagnose. They expect to become unable to walk or feel pain in the event that such an injury occurs. Such symptoms do occur when someone has a complete spinal cord injury. A complete injury involves...
Orthopedic trauma requires medical and psychological care
If a loved one has suffered one or more severe injuries in a car crash, catastrophic accident or an act of violence, you may have heard a doctor say that they’ve suffered “orthopedic trauma.” Just what does that mean? An orthopedic injury is one that involves the...
