San Francisco Amputation Attorneys

The San Francisco California amputation lawyers at the Law Offices of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have dedicated over thirty years to helping traumatic injury victims in their time of need. We truly want to help people and we want to help them answer questions such as: How am I going to afford my injury treatments? What can I do now that I am unable to work because of this injury? We hope to give you a free meeting to talk about your concerns, your questions, and your potential case regardless of whether the amputation is because of a traumatic injury event, disease, work accident, or deformity. We diligently represent all types of amputation injury cases from personal injury cases and workers’ compensation claims to work injury cases.

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We at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo all pledge to walk step-by-step with our clients throughout their entire injury case. Our San Francisco Bay Area amputation attorneys know what it takes to win an injury trial or get a positive settlement. We will work with a full team of professionals to help prepare, investigate and conduct your amputation case. This may include physicians, therapists, economists, accident reconstructionists, and vocational experts to ensure that you are awarded what you are rightfully due. Call us now to setup your free initial consultation at (415) 200-0701 as we answer our phones 24 hours a day.

Amputation - Definition

Amputations are the traumatic or intended removal of a hand, leg, thumb, arm, foot, toe, or finger. Diseases account for the vast majority of amputations at seventy percent while trauma causes twenty-two percent of all amputations. Congenital birth defects (including extra fingers and toes) and tumors both cause four percent of all amputations. Amputations of the smaller extremities (toe amputations, finger amputations, and foot amputations) are actually more common than amputations of the larger and longer extremities (leg amputations and arm amputations). A general or orthopedic surgeon will usually perform the amputation surgery.

Amputation Causes: Traumatic

Below is a partial list of injuries that may cause an amputation or the need for one to be performed:

Motorcycle accidents;
Punch Press Machine Accidents;
Car, SUV and Truck accidents;
Work injuries;
Railroad injuries;
Defective Products;
Lawn Mower Accidents;
Violence and fighting;
Construction Site Accidents;
Crosswalk accidents;
Farm Equipment Accidents;
Pedestrian accidents;
On The Job Accidents;
Bicycle accidents;
Skateboard accidents;
Sports Injuries; and
Gun shots.

Amputation Causes: Surgical

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

Amputations While Working

OSHA has stated that about half of injuries that occur to people when they use the punch press require an amputation to be performed. Many other work machines, vehicles and equipment that people use on the job have rates of injuries that cause or require amputations including power tools, conveyor belts, and table saws. If you have been hurt (regardless of the severity) while you were in the scope of your employment, it is important that you meet with experienced and ethical workers’ compensation lawyers with a successful track record for maximizing their clients’ compensation. Even injuries as traumatic as those that cause amputations may qualify for more than compensation (as work injury cases) as there may have been a third party also at fault.

Amputation Types

A list of possible amputations can be broken up into two main categories: lower body amputations and upper body amputations. The lower body amputations involve surgeries, disease, and trauma from the waist down to the toes. The list of leg amputations includes: whole leg amputation, hip disarticulation, above knee amputation (transradial), hindquarter amputation, rotationplasty, knee-bearing amputation, and below-knee amputation (transtibial). The possible amputations for the foot include foot amputation, partial foot amputation, ankle disarticulation, or toe amputation.

The list of upper body amputations involves trauma, disease and surgeries from the shoulder down to the hand and fingers. The most typical amputations involving the arm includes: arm amputation, elbow disarticulation, forequarter amputation, shoulder disarticulation, above-elbow amputation (transhumeral), and forearm amputation (transradial). The hand amputations include: hand amputation, wrist disarticulation, metacarpal amputation, and finger amputations including thumb amputation, ring finger amputation, pointer finger amputation, middle finger amputation, and pinky amputation.

After the Amputation

Though amputations continue to improve and be safer, there remains a fifteen percent rate of infection among amputation patients. Patients will be routinely given pain medication and antibiotics to help relieve pain and fight infection. Physical therapy also starts very soon after amputation.

Amputation and Diabetes

A diabetic patient has a fifteen to forty times greater chance of requiring a leg or foot amputation than a non-diabetic. This is because of the poor circulation in diabetic’s lower extremities. The lowered circulation might cause infection or gangrene. The International Diabetes Foundation states that over eighty thousand foot or leg amputations are performed every year because of diabetes.

Contact Us for a Free Consultation

As part of our outreach to injury victims, we provide free initial consultations and case evaluations. We are the law firm that from the start gives you straightforward and well-researched answers so you can evaluate your position and decide your next step accordingly. In addition, we work solely on a contingency basis. This means that you will not owe us anything until and unless we win your case. If we do not win: you do not have to pay us for our time and services that were provided.

The amputation lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo will meet you at our office, your house or your hospital room during Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 5:30pm. By appointment, our amputation attorneys will also schedule the meeting with you for Saturdays, Sundays and in the evening.

Law Firm of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo
San Francisco, California
(415) 200-0701

3 Decades of Helping People

Our law firm has a solid reputation that we have built since 1979 by being ethical, working hard, and going the extra mile for each and every one of our clients. This is especially true for amputation injury clients since we know how hard that must be for you. We are well known and well regarded throughout San Francisco, California, Oakland, Berkeley, the East Bay, the Peninsula, Marin, the Tri-Valley, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Long Beach, Orange County, and Central California.