Proving Soft Tissue Injuries: Challenges After A Car Accident In Arkansas

What Are Soft Tissue Injuries And Why Are They Difficult To Prove After A Car Accident In Arkansas?

A soft tissue injury is generally one that doesn’t result in a broken bone or a cut and is often a musculoskeletal issue. A whiplash, a sprain, or a strain could all be considered soft tissue injuries, maybe even bruising.

These injuries are difficult to prove because they’re not as visible as a broken bone or a cut, so insurance companies often try to devalue them. My job as your attorney is to highlight the medical records and evidence to show what you went through and prove that your injuries are real and you did, in fact, experience pain and suffering.

The main diagnostic tools used in a hospital are designed to identify any major injuries that occur. So, they’re looking for broken bones and blood clots, but not necessarily the sprain and strain of a muscle.

How Are Claims For Soft Tissue Injuries Typically Treated By Arkansas Insurance Companies?

Generally, since there are not a lot of diagnostic tools involved when it comes to soft tissue injuries, insurance companies tend to devalue these claims under the guise that they are subjective to the patient. For this reason, it’s very important not only to communicate with your doctor about your pain levels and restrictions.

It’s also important to show up for your appointments and continue with your treatment plan, and make sure that you stay compliant and current with it. Gaps in your treatment can be an easy sticking point for insurance companies, because that also shows that you may not be serious about your injuries. If your injuries weren’t severe, you wouldn’t be going to all this treatment to help alleviate your symptoms.

What Medical Records And Documentation Can Help To Validate A Soft Tissue Injury Claim?

Objective findings from your healthcare provider are crucial, whether it’s the ER physician, an urgent care doctor, a chiropractor, a physical therapist, or a family doctor. When you go in and they examine you, an X-ray may not show soft tissue injury, but they’re going to touch you, twist your body, and see if it moves within a normal range of motion.

Oftentimes, with a soft tissue injury, your body won’t have a full range of motion, and that will be in your medical records, showing that you can’t move like you did before the accident. We, as your attorneys, use that in your medical records to highlight and amplify what you went through, and prove what you went through. A doctor backs up your complaints with their objective tests, range of motion studies.

Attorney Bradley Mullins is a seasoned lawyer based in Springdale, Arkansas, who has helped countless clients just like you navigate the intricacies of personal injury law. With over 10 years of relevant experience, he is prepared to assist you in substantiating your soft tissue injury claims so that you can advocate for the compensation you deserve.

Still have questions? Ready to get started? Contact Mullins & Blake Attorneys today to schedule an initial consultation.

What Is The Best Way To Track Pain, Symptoms, And Recovery From A Soft Tissue Injury?

Be sure to communicate how you’re progressing through the treatment regularly with your doctor. Some treatments don’t help, and some treatment does, so if you feel like your treatment plan is making your symptoms worse, your plan will need to be discussed.

If you feel like you’re not making any progress and your symptoms are not being alleviated, you also need to communicate this to your doctor. Even if you find that your treatment plan is working and helping your symptoms, you should discuss your recovery with your doctor.

Anything documented in your medical records and reported to your doctor is just extra evidence that we can use to prove what you’re saying. You’re going through a treatment plan that a medical professional has documented on your behalf, due to the accident.

Some people keep a diary or a pain journal, and that helps. But the best way is to report it to your doctor. Because then your doctor can examine you, back up your subjective claims with objective tests, and an examination of findings.

How Do You Handle Situations Where Insurance Companies Downplay Or Deny The Existence Of A Soft Tissue Injury?

We’ve always got the right to sue on behalf of our clients, so we will file a lawsuit. Oftentimes, just the threat alone, combined with our record of taking insurance companies to court, is enough to get the insurance company to treat an injured person fairly.

But injured people aren’t being looked out for by insurance companies. Insurance companies exist to make money and pay as little as possible on a claim. A lawsuit is generally the best way to get another attorney involved on the insurance company’s side and make them see you as a person who went through something damaging and deserves to be compensated.

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