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Spinal Cord Injury: Ottawa Lawyer David Hollingsworth shares facts
Posted by Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer, Ottawa Accident Lawyer, David Hollingsworth in Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury, Personal Injury Claims on June 22nd, 2010
Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer David Hollingsworth, Ottawa Catastrophic Injury Lawyers
Personal Injury Facts: Spinal Cord Injury
- 55% of spinal cord injuries are from motor vehicle accidents.
- 84% of injuries occur to people under the age of 34.
- Spinal cord injury is one of the most traumatic events to occur in an individual’s life.
- A spinal cord injury can happen to anyone at any time.
- 18% of spinal cord injuries are sustained by unintentional falls.
- On average, it takes 2 to 3 years to attain sufficient independence following spinal cord injury.
- People can and do make a positive adjustment to life with a spinal cord injury.
- 27 % of spinal cord injuries are the result of medical conditions or sports injuries.
- In Ontario, approximately 600,000 people (7%) of the population, live with a paralysis or permanent mobility impairment.
- Spinal cord injury affects family, friends, employers, community and the health care system.
- The unemployment rate for people with a spinal cord injury is 62%.
- Last year, CPA Ontario helped 74 people return to work.
- Paraplegia is the loss of sensation and movement in legs and in part of all of the trunk, usually resulting from an injury to the spinal cord below the neck.
- The cost of a spinal cord injury to the Canadian Health Care system can be between $1.25 million and $25 million over an individual’s lifetime, depending on the severity of injury.
- 8 – to – 10% of our population has a mobility impairment
- There are 350-400 new spinal cord injuries every year in Ontario (approximately one every day) and current estimates indicate that there are approximately 12,000 Ontarians living with spinal cord injury.
A spinal cord injury (SCI) completely changes the life of the victim and those who are close to him or her. Paralysis is a life-altering experience which results in enormous financial costs to cover ongoing medical care, attendant care, medical equipment, adaptive technologies, specialized medicines and supplies.
Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Profile
For well over a decade, David Hollingsworth has been an Ottawa personal injury lawyer working with Goldberg Stroud LLP, an Ottawa law firm of 50 years, representing clients who have suffered spinal cord injury and other serious personal injury or loved ones of those who have suffered a wrongful death due to motor vehicle accidents and other forms of negligence since 1999.
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Please support Ottawa hockey dad. Accident resulting in spinal cord injury for Rene Faucher, father of 3.
Posted by Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer, Ottawa Accident Lawyer, David Hollingsworth in Ottawa Injury and Accidents, Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury on January 21st, 2010
Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer, Ontario Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers David Hollingsworth….Please support Ottawa hockey dad. Accident resulting in spinal cord injury for Rene Faucher, father of 3.
Tragedy Strikes: Ottawa Hockey Accident Spinal Cord Injury.
A personal appeal from David Hollingsworth:
“Rene Faucher is a friend of mine and I urge anyone who can to please donate to support this incredibly wonderful family who have always given to the Ottawa community and now need your help. I personally thank you.”
Background:
Mr. Rene Faucher, a young father of three wonderful children under the age of five, and husband to Mrs. Dianne Douglas, may never walk again after a serious accident during a casual game of pick-up hockey at the University of Ottawa Sports Complex on Sunday. Faucher, 40, was rushed to Ottawa Civic Hospital after tragically going head first into the boards while playing hockey.
Though he was wearing a helmet, his spine experienced injury and doctors in the trauma unit are unable to ascertain if he will ever walk again. “We have to wait until the spinal shock subsides to understand what the long term recovery road looks like,” states Marc, Faucher’s brother to CTV Ottawa reporters. Faucher is self-employed and unfortunately does not have long-term disability insurance. Douglas expressed to CTV that she never thought her family would have to deal with such a tragedy: “Coming home to get that call, you just don’t ever think something serious would happen to you.”
Family and friends, myself included, are now appealing to the community to step in and help in whatever way they can, every donation and expression of good will and support helps. Faucher’s brother Marc said the support has been overwhelming.
How You Can Help:
Donations can be made at any Scotiabank Branch, to The Faucher Douglas Trust Fund, Branch 25486, Account 0016713.
Alternatively, cheques payable to the “Faucher Douglas Trust Fund” can also be mailed to the attention of Russ Reil at Scotiabank, Markdale, Ontario.
