{"id":47,"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/upper-spine-injured-in-an-accident-prepare-for-major-setbacks\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:02","slug":"upper-spine-injured-in-an-accident-prepare-for-major-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/upper-spine-injured-in-an-accident-prepare-for-major-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper spine injured in an accident? Prepare for major setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you were in a car accident, or maybe you fell from a ladder on a construction site. Perhaps your injury occurred incrementally through months or years of repetitive lifting and carrying, and one day you had to pick up something at work and you felt something change suddenly in your upper spine.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways that your upper spinal injury might occur, but one thing is certain &#8211; unless you are very, very fortunate, your life may have changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>If you suffered a spinal cord injury affecting your high-cervical nerves, specifically within you C1 through C4 vertebrae, you may lose partial or complete functionality of many areas of your body. To make matters worse, these losses may be indefinite.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/upper-spine-injured-in-an-accident-prepare-for-major-setbacks\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Upper spine injured in an accident? 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