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Riverside Amputation Attorneys

For over three decades, the Riverside California amputation lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have dedicated their careers to helping people and protecting their legal rights. Amputations are hard on the patient and their family. We want to walk with you during this difficult time in your life and help you receive your due compensation and ensure you are receiving quality, timely and comprehensive medical treatment. We want to meet with you to discuss your amputation case regardless of whether it is from an injury that happened at work, or from a deformity, disease, work accident, or traumatic event. We will represent and protect your rights for the complete range of possible amputation cases from workers’ compensation claims and personal injury cases to work injury cases.

Trust DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo

We have built a winning team and strategy since 1979. We were even awarded an A+ by the Better Business Bureau. Our Riverside California amputation lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo will provide you a full team as needed of quality and experienced professionals to help investigate and represent your amputation injury case. This includes economists, physicians, therapists, accident reconstructionists, and vocational experts. Call us today at (951) 977-7787 to discuss your specific amputation case.

Definition: Amputation

Amputations are always a difficult procedure to go through and the patient needs to be honest with themselves and their loved ones regarding how they are doing emotionally as well as physically. Amputations are the traumatic or purposeful removal of an arm, hand, foot, leg, toe or finger. Roughly seventy percent of all amputations happen because of disease while trauma causes an additional twenty-two percent. Birth defects (congenital) and tumors both account for four percent of amputations each. Finger amputations, foot amputations and toe amputations are more common than arm amputations and leg amputations. An orthopedic or general surgeon will usually perform the surgery with the support of many medical professionals.

Traumatic Amputations: Causes

The following list contains many of the main causes of amputation from injury or traumatic event:

Surgical Amputation: Causes

The most common reasons to have amputations by surgery include work injuries, impaired circulation, cancerous tumors, melanoma, deformities like an extra finger or extra toe, gangrene, frostbite, severe trauma, diabetes, and osteomyelitis (deep bone infection). Buerger’s disease and Raynaud’s disease are two additional reasons amputations might be considered.

Amputation: Types

Amputations can be performed each of the body’s extremities from leg or foot amputation to the finger or hand amputation. Amputations can be thought of in two groups: lower body and upper body amputations.

The upper body amputations include the parts of the body from the shoulder to the fingers. The most typical arm amputations include above-elbow amputation (transhumeral), shoulder disarticulation, elbow disarticulation, forequarter amputation, and forearm amputation (transradial). The hand amputations include metacarpal amputation, wrist disarticulation, and finger amputations including pointer finger amputation, middle finger amputation, ring finger amputation, pinky amputation and thumb amputation.

Lower body amputations will involve the body parts from the toes on up to the pelvis region. The list of potential leg amputations includes knee-bearing amputation, above knee amputation (transradial), and below-knee amputation (transtibial). The possible foot and toe amputations include ankle disarticulation, partial foot amputation, or toe and multi-toe amputation. Patients should be aware that phantom pain is sometimes a strange and unsettling symptom of amputation where the patients feel pain or a need to itch the lost extremity.

Work Injuries

Injuries at work can be very severe especially when the job includes the use of heavy equipment like tractors, power tools, and saws. An example that has been taken from OSHA is that about 50% of injuries that result from an accident with the punch press require amputation. Many other pieces of work equipment have high rates of causing severe injuries that may cause amputations including meat grinders and conveyor belts. It is critical for you to consult with attorneys who have experience in workers’ compensation as well as personal injury if you have been injured while at your job site. We can maximize the scope of your amputation case so you receive the full and fair compensation that is due to you. Even injury events at work as severe as those that amputate or require amputation could qualify for work injury cases as there may have been a Third Party who is partially responsible in addition to your employer.

Care After the Amputation

Amputations have become a lot safer and more successful over the last few decades. Even still, 15% of all amputees still get an infection. Patients are routinely given antibiotics for prevention and pain medication. Physical therapy will start soon after the amputation. It is important that amputees also consider counseling to help them heal emotionally.

Diabetes -> Amputation

A diabetic patient has a fifteen to forty times larger chance of requiring the amputation of a foot or leg than someone without diabetes. This mainly happens because of the poor circulation resulting from diabetes. Specifically, the decreased circulation may cause infection, gangrene and other complications. The International Diabetes Foundation stated that over 80,000 foot and/or leg amputations happen annually due to diabetes just in the USA.

Contact Us for a Free Consultation

The initial consultations and case evaluations are free. They are for you and your family to be able to speak with an attorney to discuss your specific case and what going forward legally would look like. We want to make it easier for you during this tough time so we will work on a contingency basis throughout the case. This means that you will not incur or be charged any legal fees until we win your case. More specifically, you will not owe us anything if we do not win your case. The Riverside amputation attorneys at the Law Firm of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo will meet you at our office, your home or your room at the hospital on Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30 in the morning to 5:30 at night. By appointment, we will meet with you on the weekend (Saturdays and Sundays) and in the evening.

Law Firm of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo
Riverside, California
(951) 977-7787

A Successful Track Record

Choosing attorneys to help you during this tough time may not be easy. We hope that by reading about our firm, you get the idea that we are honest, ethical, hard working and have a track record of success built on over thirty years. We are well known throughout Riverside, California, Orange County, San Diego, Long Beach, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, and Bakersfield as attorneys who go the extra mile. We take pride in our work and look forward to helping you.

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