Leg and Knee Injury Compensation Claim Lawyers QLD

People in Queensland often endure leg and knee injuries due to:

Slips, Trips and Falls – unexpected falls can cause soft tissue damage and break one or both of your leg bones.

Car and Road Accidents – A motor vehicle accident’s sudden and severe impact can cause minor damage or severe fractures. 

Motorcycle and Cycle accidents – Motorbike riders and cyclists are particularly vulnerable to leg and knee injuries, as they lack lower limb protection when they have a traffic accident.

Sporting and recreational injuries – pushing yourself beyond your usual physical limits when doing recreational activities can harm your lower limbs.

Workplace Accidents – sometimes your legs are harmed when the unexpected happens at work or due to work-related activity.

Overuse injuries – You can acquire stress fractures by repetitive force or excessive use, e.g. working too hard or running too far. You might also have an existing condition escalated by your job or a supporting activity.

When you injure your leg, you may have more than one type of physical damage, but one thing all injuries have in common is their capacity to prevent you from going about your usual daily routine. Here are some of the medical conditions we regularly encounter for leg injury compensation

1) Soft Tissue Leg Injury – Strains and sprains

When ligaments are torn or stretched, you have soft tissue damage. Most people associate sprains with the ankle, but your hamstrings and knee can also be sprained or strained by a sudden impact or twisting.

2) Broken bones and Fractures

A leg, foot or knee fracture is painful and stops you from working or driving your car. You could be on crutches or in a wheelchair and require extensive physical therapy to recover.

3) Leg Paralysis

Damage to your spinal cord or lower body nerves can lead to full or partial paralysis. Typically, severe accidents at work, on the road, or a nasty trip or fall can cause extensive physical harm.

4) Leg burns injuries

If you work with chemicals, corrosive solutions, or heat, you could suffer a burn to any body part, including your legs. Inadequate training, poor handling procedures or lack of protective equipment are all unacceptable risks. Your legs are almost 20% of your skin area, so burn injuries to this part of your body can require lengthy recovery times.

5) Leg amputation

Removing a part of your body will likely cause lasting psychological and physical impacts. Changing your life to fit your new circumstance will be costly, and you may require long-term therapy. Compensation will help fund your changes to move on with your life.

When Queenslanders have an accident and damage their leg or knee, they usually get a sprain, abrasion, bruise, dislocation, bone break or rupture of muscles and tendons. Thankfully, most people recover, and severe injuries are rare – like compound fractures and those requiring amputation. This leg damage can be life-threatening and lead to short or long-term disabilities.

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Your thighbone is the most durable bone in your body. If you fracture your thighbone, you will likely have a severe leg injury, as considerable force would be needed to break this bone. However, soft tissue injuries and damage to your tibia (shinbone) or your fibula (the bone that sits beside your shinbone) could be more subtle. The symptoms of a leg break may include the following:

• Severe pain that is more intense when you move
• Tenderness and swelling
• Extensive bruising
• Deformity of your lower limb
• You can’t walk

When younger people suffer a fracture or other lower limb injury, they may stop walking without being able to explain. In this situation, you should seek immediate medical advice.