Archive for January, 2010

Sometimes research states the obvious, but sometimes the obvious is ignored or denied. Children who suffer some trauma, including victims of Tennesssee or Nashville automobile accidents, may experience personal injury and  post traumatic stress.

The “surprise” is that parents of a child in a Tennessee automobile accident may also experience post-traumatic stress. This is especially true if the child had a personal injury that required hospitalization. The pain experienced by a child, and the extent to which the child’s life was at risk, both made the parents’ stress worse.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Nashville car accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Tennessee car accident attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

Knee pain can be disabling, and if you have been in a Tennessee car accident, Tennessee motorcycle accident or injured on the job in Tennessee you may assume that some sort of surgery is going to be necessary to get things back to normal.

Among our Tennessee knee injury clients we have found that sometimes surgery can make a huge difference, but not always. Pain at the front of the knee may be caused by a softening of your knee cartilage, a condition called “chondromalacia” If your diagnosis is chondromalacia will surgery be the answer? Maybe not.

Recent research has shown that knee surgery for chondromalacia has limited effectiveness and shouldn’t be attempted unless the patient has 6 months of physical therapy without improvement.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville  personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

A knee injury in Tennessee typically will occur either on the job, or in a motorcycle or car accident. I’ve had a knee injury and can appreciate how disabling it can be before and after surgery.

I was lucky and had a great recovery, but I have seen lots of cases where my clients weren’t as lucky as I was and had permanent restrictions and limitations that affected their ability to work and function normally. A number of our Tennessee personal injury clients have had knee replacement surgery that has allowed them much more normal (but not normal) mobility.

One of the limitations of knee replacements is that some activities, like climbing stairs, can still be very difficult (also difficult for some Tennessee motorcycle clients- riding a motorcycle). Their are two basic designs for artificial knees, the “fixed bearing” design and the “rotating platform” design.

A recent FDA study seems to show that the “rotating platform” design may provide an artificial knee that is better at things like climbing stairs. Ask your doctor about your choices if you have a Tennessee personal injury that involves the knee and the possibility of knee replacement.

If you or anyone you know has been killed or suffered a personal injury in Tennessee, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Nashville personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here. No matter what you do, before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster, read our materials on dealing with insurance adjusters first!

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved. Contact us before you settle your case with an insurance adjuster!

Tennessee auto accidents can result in serious injury or death when the victims are ejected from their cars. Research published by NHTSA has shown that unbelted victims are at much higher risk for ejection than those with seatbelts. The actual data shows that more than 15,000 lives were saved by the use of seatbelts in 2007 alone.

When the driver and passengers in a Tennessee car accident do not use their seatbelts, they are  are 17.7 times more likely to be ejected during a crash. Only 2% of belted passengers were ejected during a crash.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Nashville or Tennessee car accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Tennessee personal injury attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Cases involving personal injury or death in Tennessee must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved.

Tennessee auto accidents often cause serious injuries and although things like seatbelts and airbags are important, they provide little protection for legs and ankles in a serious impact.

When a driver is braking hard to avoid impact in a Tennessee auto accident, there is no padding that protects the ankle and leg – nothing to absorb the shock of the impact.

When there is a serious fracture to the ankle, the recovery will be long and difficult. Healing times may be a year or more.  Even more tragic, arthritic changes in the joint can make walking difficult and cause disabling pain. Ankle fusions are one alternative treatment, but only when pain has become intractable and there are no alternatives.

If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a Tennessee car accident, please contact Nashville injury attorney Phillip Miller and the Tennessee auto accident attorneys at Phillip Miller and Associates at (615) 356-2000, or contact our office online here.

One last thing: If you are hurt and have any questions at all, contact our office at (615) 356-2000. Don’t delay. Auto accidents in Tennessee that involve personal injury or death must be acted on quickly. Time is running. Call for an appointment, if it’s bad enough that you need to read this far into a website blog, it’s bad enough to get an attorney involved.