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You feel worse than you expected to, or you feel fine but something in the back of your mind is telling you to pay attention. Maybe you took a hard hit to the abdomen, or your chest struck the steering wheel, or you were thrown against the door and the impact was more significant than […]

The accident did not seem like much. The other car was not going fast. There was not a lot of damage. Everyone walked away. And now, weeks or months later, you have an MRI showing a herniated disc and a doctor using words like nerve root compression and possible surgical intervention, and somewhere in the […]

You went to the doctor, or the emergency room, or urgent care, and they examined you and ran some tests and possibly told you everything looks normal. But your neck hurts, your head aches, you feel off in ways you’re struggling to describe, and normal doesn’t match your experience at all. Or maybe you haven’t […]

Someone used this phrase to describe what happened to you, a doctor, an adjuster, maybe your own attorney, and now you are trying to figure out what it actually means. Because from the inside, soft tissue injury does not feel like a category. It feels like pain that woke you up at three in the […]

Something feels wrong with your leg, or your calf, or your chest, and you’re trying to figure out whether what happened in the accident could be responsible. Maybe you’ve been less mobile since you were injured. Maybe one leg is swollen or warm in a way the other isn’t. Maybe you’re short of breath in […]

You expected it to be better by now. The first few days made sense, everything hurt, your body had just been through something, you told yourself it would pass. But it has been two weeks, or three, or five, and the neck pain is still there, maybe different than it was at first, maybe moving […]

Your imaging came back and it says bulging disc, or herniated disc, or maybe both at different levels, and now you’re trying to figure out what those words actually mean for your body and for your claim. These two terms get used interchangeably in casual conversation and even sometimes in medical offices in ways that […]

You had the accident. Maybe it was a year ago, maybe several years ago. You dealt with the soreness, you settled your claim or let it go, you moved on. And now you are in a doctor’s office looking at an MRI and someone is pointing to a bulging disc and you are wondering, for […]

Something is wrong with your neck and arm, and you’ve either been told you have a C5-C6 herniation or you’re trying to figure out if what you’re feeling matches that diagnosis. The symptoms of a herniation at this specific level are distinctive enough that many people recognize them before any imaging confirms them, but they’re […]

It has been a few weeks, or maybe a few months, and you still do not feel like yourself. The neck pain that you expected to fade is still there, or it faded and came back, or it moved somewhere new. The headaches are interrupting your days. You are having trouble sleeping, or concentrating, or […]