Sentences with phrase «quadriplegia who»

For example, people living with quadriplegia who try to move their arm still generate arm - movement signals in the motor cortex of their brain, even after several years of paralysis.

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Chicago taxpayers are likely on the hook to pay a $ 1.5 million settlement to a bicyclist who suffered brain damage and other injuries that left him with quadriplegia when he crashed into a barricade guarding a sunken catch basin in a late - night accident in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

Kochevar, who was paralyzed below his shoulders in a bicycling accident, is believed to be the first person with quadriplegia in the world to have arm and hand movements restored with the help of two temporarily implanted technologies.

Those who are catastrophically impaired have suffered severe loss, including but not limited to, paraplegia, quadriplegia, blindness, loss of an arm or a leg, and serious brain injuries.

Thus, it is important for anyone who has been a victim of negligence that results in quadriplegia to retain an experienced and qualified personal injury attorney to handle his or her claim.

Patients who suffer from quadriplegia generally experience a loss of use from the neck down, including both arms and legs.

$ 3,000,000 — Municipal Liability / School — mediated settlement for a minor who suffered neck injuries resulting in quadriplegia based on a non-sanctioned wrestling event on school grounds.

Represented a driver involved in a $ 40 million dollar lawsuit brought by a 26 year old man who suffered quadriplegia after a multiple motor vehicle and tractor trailor accident on I - 95 in Fairfield.

I would not say, certainly not on this application today, that a person who had suffered a catastrophic injury involving quadriplegia or brain injury or the like could feel free not to take a positive step such as taking out a newspaper advertisement or posting an internet classified advertisement in an attempt to locate a tortfeasor, no matter how remote the chances of that being successful might seem; but in this case, given the claimant's relatively modest injuries as alleged and as attested to in his statement, I do not think that would have been a reasonable requirement on his part.

Victims who are involved in high - impact accidents are at an increased risk of sustaining serious injuries to their spinal cord, which can lead to quadriplegia.

Victims who sustain complete quadriplegia injuries have a complete lack of feeling and motor function below the level of their injury.

Common injuries for motorcyclists who survive intersection accidents are quadriplegia, paraplegia, paralysis, broken bones, and traumatic brain injuries.

Trek issued the recall after reports of three injuries, including one person who suffered quadriplegia.

Except for catastrophic injuries such as quadriplegia or severe brain injury, people who are injured in an Ontario auto accident on or after September 1, 2010 will only be eligible for a maximum of $ 50,000 in medical and rehabilitation benefits from their own car insurer.

A trial verdict of $ 4.2 million in a case against physicians who misdiagnosed a neck fracture, resulting in quadriplegia;