Explore the legal challenges in determining whether injuries are acute or pre-existing, with a focus on medical evidence and strategies for successful litigation in personal injury cases.
One of the defense’s favorite arguments to make, especially in a motor vehicle collision, is that the disc protrusion preexisted the date of the incident. Find out how to get ahead of this by understanding medical grading and common diagnostic studies.
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Attorney at Kathleen Law P.C.
Kathleen's practice focuses on all types of serious injury cases, such as premises, construction, motor vehicle, nursing home negligence, aviation, maritime, products, etc. She has tried cases in all boroughs of NYC, as well as surrounding areas, and has a fifteen-year career dedicated solely to plaintiffs' personal injury. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Trial Lawyers and is a graduate of New York Law School.
Doctor at BAYSIDE PHYSICAL THERAPY
Chiropractor specializing in MRI interpretation of herniated, protruded, extruded, bulged, and sequestered discs and their relationship to the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots; MRI of Disc, Spinal Cord, and Spinal Canal Pathology; Accident Reconstruction and Ensuing Bodily Injury; Neurodiagnostics; Imaging Protocols and Pathology of the Trauma Patient; Diagnostics, Risk Factors, Clinical Presentation, and Triaging the Trauma Patient; Crash Dynamics and Its Relationship to Causality; and more.
