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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Ottawa Accident Lawyer, Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer David Hollingsworth-

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