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[Content Updated Dec 5, 2021] – Your hands are your primary tools for eating and self-defense. When a dog attacks you, you will try and protect yourself with your hands or kick the animal with your feet. Dogs will naturally try to bite and clamp down on your hand, foot, or other limbs with their teeth, instinctively immobilizing you.
When an individual is the victim of a Los Angeles, California dog bite attack, their first concern is generally with the lacerations, including ankle or hand scarring.
Victims may experience more pressing issues besides superficially appearing wounds and less severe bodily injuries. Dog bites will cause some victims to suffer permanent nerve damage to their hands and limbs, causing loss of movement or sensation.
The dog bite victim can lose their limb or finger in extreme dog attacks, making expensive emergency medical care and skillful surgical treatment necessary in many cases.
Canines have an unusual amount of jaw strength. Dogs remain domesticated wolves no matter what they look like to a person. Wolves, the dog’s ancestors, hunted for food, ripping flesh from their prey, breaking bones.
Modern dogs have not lost their jaw strength, with some enormous dogs equipped with as much as 200 pounds of jaw pressure per square inch.
When a dog attack occurs, it can break hands and other bones, tearing flesh, damaging your nerves underneath your tender skin, tiny children, and females.
You will not always know if surgery or therapy will help restore nerve function, so it’s a scary thing to be diagnosed with nerve damage.
Nerves carry messages to and from the brain to let the body know things such as temperature, pressure, and pain when coming in contact with something. The other thing these messages do is tell the muscles how to react. If nerve damage occurs, it disrupts these signals, which can have several consequences, such as loss of sensation, numbness, or loss of movement.
The dog bite victim’s concern is nerve damage causes loss of sensation or movement in hands and fingers, affecting their ability to work, perform daily activities, damaging overall quality of life.
If you are diagnosed with Neurotmesis, surgery won’t completely restore your health yet will remain expensive, taking a long time to heal or partially recover.
When a person suffers a dog bite, there are injuries such as lacerations, fractures, nerve damage, and even the risk of infection that need healing and a considerable convalescence period. You will also suffer from emotional trauma, not always easy to handle, including financial hardship for the victim’s entire family.
If a dog bite attack damaged someone’s extremities or limbs, their legal right to maximum compensation exists. Our dog bite attorneys can provide excellent representation, assisting you in recovering all your deserving economic damages for medical expenses and lost wages.
We will seek damages for your pain and suffering after losing or damaging a limb. The Ehline Law Firm Personal Injury Attorneys, APLC, provides dog bite victims with a free legal consultation to discuss their claims.
Our superior dog attack limb injury lawyers never charge clients upfront fees, refusing to charge you for our services until we recover a fair and just settlement or award for your case.
We are available 24 hours a day to assist you at (213) 596-9642, or you can fill out our online contact form to engage an accident attorney today.
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