The tell-tale symptoms of car accident injuries sometimes are not that apparent at the time of your Mississippi car accident, which can lead you to believe you have “minor” injuries or that you are not injured at all. This can result in two negative outcomes. Your health can be in danger because you may suffer long-term damage that would not have occurred if your injuries were diagnosed promptly, and you can lose your ability to recover for damages from a responsible party.
When you are involved in a Mississippi car accident, it is important to seek medical attention no matter how minor you consider your injuries. Soft tissue damage that results from trauma such as whiplash may not even make itself manifest until days or weeks later. This tissue damage can become a much more serious problem if not treated correctly. The inflammation that will set in due to such damage can cause swelling and muscle spasms that develops into soreness, stiffness, numbness, headaches and other physical manifestations.
Sometimes it can be more than just soft tissue that is damaged such as an injury to nerves or ligaments. Most people don’t understand that these types of injuries take a long time to heal, and sometimes can produce scar tissue that will need to be manipulated by a specialist so that the injury does not heal this way impeding further movement later. Treatment that is given for these injuries is often downplayed, or people are just given pain medications to mask the symptoms and provide pain relief. These methods will not address the problem over the long-term and can end up causing future difficulties and pain.
Other types of injuries that can have delayed symptoms are head injuries, spinal injuries, and shoulder injuries. A person does not have to be driving fast when they are in a Mississippi car accident to suffer these injuries either. Sometimes a car will not even be damaged, and it will be easy to brush the auto accident off as no big deal. This can be a grave mistake. Seeking medical attention and awareness of what your body is doing in the subsequent hours after a Mississippi car accident is important.
Symptoms that victims of auto accident in Mississippi should be aware of include the following:
- Headaches
- Problems with your vision
- Pain and inflammation
- Numbness or tingling in body parts
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Irritability
It is important to seek out the advice of an experienced Mississippi auto accident attorney if you think you have sustained injuries in a car accident anywhere in Mississippi. Many insurance carriers dismiss the seriousness of injuries and take the position that an auto accident victim is either faking or exaggerating his or her injuries. Insurance adjusters love to use insulting phrases like “low impact” collision as they make inappropriate settlement offers far below the real value of an injury victim’s claim.
Our Mississippi auto accident law firm offers a free initial case evaluation so call us today at (662) 834-2376.
If you are injured or a loved one’s life is tragically taken in an Mississippi car accident, the Mississippi car accident lawyers at the Barrett Law Office work hard and give its best efforts to obtain the full value of our client’s claim as we have been doing for car accident victims throughout Mississippi since 1933.