A broken hand or wrist can be hugely disabling, especially when it occurs on your dominant hand. These types of injuries will often mean significant time away from work, multiple trips to the hospital and a lengthy spell of rehabilitation.
When you are injured because of someone else, and you injure your hand or wrist, you need the right experts on your side. Taylor Emmet has decades of experience in handling injury claims, and we are here for you.
No Win No Fee Personal Injury Claims
We offer a free consultation with one of our friendly solicitors to get the ball rolling. After you’ve told us what happened, we’ll provide you with expert legal advice at no cost to you.
A fracture is another term for a broken bone. Medical experts use certain terms to describe where the bone is broken, and in what sort of pattern, open or closed and if it is displaced (shifted apart) or angulated. Fractures can be non-displaced (a crack in the bone), spiral, segmented, or comminuted (multiple pieces). The more energy it takes to break a bone, the more damage to the bone and soft tissues, and therefore the blood supply to the bone.
Treatment and Recovery
Fractures are treated in different ways and while some can be treated in a cast, brace, or splint, others require surgery to repair the fracture with plates, screws, nails, or pins.
Everyone who experiences a fracture will heal differently. Most fractures heal in 6-8 weeks, but this varies from bone to bone and in each person based on many factors.
Hand and wrist fractures often heal in 4-6 weeks; however, things can influence that timeframe such as the type of fracture, age, nutrition, overall health and whether or not you smoke.
There are many ways that a person might injure their hand or wrist. Common examples include trips or falls at work, in the street or in private premises (like shops or leisure centres). We also see these sorts of injuries occur due to vehicle or bicycle accidents, or when a pedestrian is injured by a vehicle.
Our expert Solicitors will work hard to get you private rehabilitation, paid for by the person at fault or (usually) their insurance company.
We will guide you through what can be a complex process and, when the time is right, will arrange for you to be seen by an independent medical expert. The expert will give us an opinion on your accident and the effect it has had on you. We will use that opinion to value your claim and to suggest a negotiation strategy to maximise your compensation.
Financial Losses
Ideally, we want to help you get back to how you were before the accident but, if that is not possible, for example, when an injury leaves a permanent limitation, we will work tirelessly to make sure you get the compensation you deserve.
We understand that your losses are more than just the pain and suffering you have experienced, and our experts will value all related financial losses, whether that be a loss of earnings or pension payments, care from friends and family, or the cost of help like gardeners or cleaners. The list of potential financial losses is a long one, and we will work with you to calculate and set out those losses to the paying party.
In some cases, the person at fault will dispute that they are to blame. This often can mean that the best way forwards will be to start court proceedings and move towards a hearing with a Judge. In most cases, the claim will settle before you get to a court room, but careful and expert help is needed through the litigation. At Taylor Emmet we have vast experience in guiding clients through the litigation process and you will be in the safest of hands.
No Win No Fee Personal Injury Claims
We want to make your claim process a smooth one. That’s why we offer a free consultation with one of our friendly solicitors to get the ball rolling. After you’ve told us what happened, we’ll provide you with expert legal advice at no cost to you. We also operate a no win, no fee policy here at Taylor Emmet.
More information
Broken Arm or Wrist – NHS.uk
First Aid Treatment – NHS.uk
Hand Therapy – St Georges, NHS.uk
Metacarpal Fractures – NHSinform.scot
