What Is a Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant?
A spinal cord stimulator implant is used when a person is suffering from a spinal cord injury, and nothing else is working to prevent or stop the pain of this type of injury after an accident. Spinal cord injuries are highly painful, and can leave the sufferer in excruciating pain, both day and night. Taking an aspirin is not going to stop this pain, and some people are permanently disabled as a result of this type of accident or loss.
The surgery for the spinal cord stimulator goes like this: spinal cord stimulators have thin wire electrodes attached to a pacemaker type of battery, which acts as a generator. The electrodes are surgically implanted in the spaces around the spinal cord and the vertebrae. Next, the generator is implanted under the skin near the abdomen or buttocks, and it offers massive and lasting pain relief for the patient when the now useful remote control lets the spinal cord stimulators do their job to reduce pain for the sufferer. The spinal cord stimulator gives a slight tingling sensation instead of a pain to the person suffering with this issue, and it can allow a person with a spinal cord injury to lead a more productive and “normal” life after a serious spinal cord injury.
What Incidents Can Require Spinal Cord Stimulator Implants?
Almost every type of personal injury accident can lead to injuries devastating and painful enough to require a spinal cord stimulator. Some of these accidents include the following:
- Car accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Trip and falls
- Slip and fall accidents
- Workplace accidents
- Accidents on government property
Depending on the details surrounding your accident, you could have grounds to file a personal injury claim, a work injury claim, or a government claim. If you are interested in learning more about the legal options available to you, do not hesitate to contact our experts today to discuss your rights after your accident. Our spinal cord stimulator injury lawyers are ready to help you.
How Much Do Accident Cases with Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant Settle for in a Lawsuit?
A lawsuit with a spinal cord stimulator implant can settle for over $1million to $3 million, depending on the circumstances of the case. The spinal cord stimulator implant surgery is a serious surgical procedure, which may have many risks associated with it.
First off, the spinal cord stimulator implant surgery can be the result of a failed back surgery, or with a complex regional pain syndrome, or for a chronic axial neuropathic pain refractory issue. There are many different types of spinal cord stimulator implants in the market, and it will vary how that stimulator will react to the person receiving it.
Second, there are different types of spinal cord stimulator implant stimulation models and pain relief management from the surgeon, which can include:
High frequency stimulation
Tonic stimulation
Spinal cord stimulator implant therapy
Burst waveforms
Burst stimulation
Paresthesia
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Risks and Complications for a Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant Surgery
There are many risks and high-level dangerous complications for a spinal cord stimulator implant surgery. The people who undergo this surgery have to go against all of the risks, usually because they are so desperate to get relief from their unending chronic and serious back pain. The risks include the following:
- Bleeding risks
- Hemorrhagic complications
- Adverse reaction to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs)
- Psychiatric issues
- Adverse reaction to anticoagulant or antiplatelet medications
- Infection control issues
- Procedural infections
- Neurogenic complications
- Epidural abscess formations
- Infectious complications
- High patient expectations with low results
- Novel waveforms
- Spinal cord stimulator implant device defects
- Opioid weaning complications
- Hardware complications
- Painful stimulation
- Electrode migration
- Lead migration
- Biological complications
- Pulse generator failure
- Fractures
- Loss of paresthesia
- Painful stimulation
- System failure
- Surgical revision for correction
- Correction for initial placement
- Battery failures
- Risks of damage to neuraxial structures
- Soft tissue infections (seromas)
- Surrounding tissue damage
- Headaches
- Neck discomfort
- Diplopia
- Photophobia
- Dural puncture
- Neurological injury from spinal cord trauma
- Skin erosions
- Seroma formation
- Tissue trauma
- Soft tissue infections
- Fevers
As shown from the list of possible complications, the risks involved with the implantation of a spinal cord stimulator implant are serious, and can even become life-threatening.
The Average Payout for Spinal Cord Stimulator Cases
The payout for a spinal cord stimulator implant case will depend on the specifics of the case, and the result of any surgeries to amend relief of pain for the spinal cord area. A person who has been in a serious accident and suffered a major spinal cord injury could be in pain daily for the rest of the person’s life. This will severely reduce the overall joy for life of the person, which could bring depression, psychological issues, pain and suffering, lost wages, loss of consortium and other problems for this individual seeking spinal cord pain relief.
It is difficult to determine an “average” amount of a payout for all cases, as all cases are not the same. But the payout in this type of case can run in the $1 million to $3 million range quite easily, in some cases.
If you have been injured by the following type of accidents, you need to give us a call:
- truck accidents
- workplace injury
- back injury broken
- fractures bones
- spine injury
- after spinal fusion surgery
- spine back surgery
- neck surgery
Any of these injuries may later necessitate a spinal cord stimulator implant, if there is chronic pain after the surgery that does not go away with traditional therapies to relieve pain.
How Long Does It Take to Settle a Case after a Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant?
Without a doubt, it can be frustrating to have to wait for a case to settle. Many people actually choose not to take legal action simply because they do not want to wait for their case to settle. Undeniable, the process of settling any injury claim can be tiresome for clients – who just want to put the experience behind them – but it’s all worth it in the end. Spinal cord stimulator implant cases, specifically, can settle in as little as 60 to 180 days: that’s 2 to 6 months. Here at our law firm, we want to get all our clients the best settlement within a reasonable time. However, sometimes getting clients the best settlement available can take longer, especially in cases where there are multiple issues with the case. A competent lawyer will be able to handle all issues effectively and manage to settle the case just a few months later. Minor issues can cause cases to settle in up to 8 months, while moderate issues can cause cases to settle in up to 18 months. In rare instances, cases can take 2 years or more to settle.
Average Settlement in Mediation or in Trial?
If you need a spinal cord stimulator implant surgery, then you are in need of legal representation who knows what to do to win against the big insurance companies today. Having said this, we are sure you understand that you need a lawyer who knows exactly what you are going through, and the challenges that you have been facing trying to settle this case to a completely successful conclusion. We are here for you right now, and when you call us, you will be sitting down with an attorney who will give you a new perspective on winning of this case.
The spinal cord stimulator implant surgery is fraught with risks, and sometimes even this surgery does not properly work. You need us to be on your side through this process. Ask yourself, are you ready to win the lawsuit that is associated with this case, and get the right law firm to represent you today? When you call The Normandie Law Firm, you will see that we are ready to help you. Just make the call right now, and we can start the process to getting you the money you need to fully recover from this injury in this case.
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If you have had a spinal cord stimulator implant surgery, you will want to talk to a lawyer with specialty in managing winning cases for spinal cord stimulator implants. We are a law firm ready, willing and able to defend you in these cases, and we work with many different large insurance companies to get you the money you deserve in this type of case. You need to call our office to talk to the lawyers who can help with your claim for damages and personal injuries, when you have had a failed spinal cord stimulator implant surgical procedure. Call us today, to learn the next steps to recovering the compensation that you need, in this type of case.
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