San Francisco Muscle Strain Injury Attorneys
The San Francisco California muscle strain injury lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have helped many people over their thirty years. We have dedicated our careers to helping people recover physically and monetarily. We want to use all of that experience to help you with your muscle strain injury. This is true regardless of whether your muscle was torn or strained while you were playing a sport, exercising, working, or at home.
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It is very beneficial to your legal chances of winning to have seasoned injury lawyers guiding you from as soon after the injury as possible. Call us at (415) 200-0701 today to allow our work injury and personal injury law firm to start helping you and maximizing your potential compensation. We want you to focus on healing while we focus on winning a positive trial verdict or settlement.
Defined: Muscle Strains
Muscle strain can also be loosely referred to by two other names: pulled muscles and muscle tears. Muscle strains are thought to be the result of excessive force directed at a muscle. This causes the surrounding tendons and muscles fiber to become damaged and/or torn. The sudden overextension of a muscle might be very painful for the injured person and can take a long time to fully recover. Muscle strains happen due to a large variety of methods including when someone is lifting heavy objects, playing sports, doing daily chores, exercising, hiking, walking or running on an uneven surface and working. This happens to athletes when they try to stop or start too quickly and they end up pulling their quads, hamstring, or another leg muscle.
Muscle Strain Causes
Our firm has most likely seen the majority of the types of circumstances that causes muscle strain injuries over the last thirty years. We have the necessary experience to take care of you and make sure you are being treated fairly by your employer. The following is a list of the typical causes for pulled, torn or strained muscles: car or auto accidents, on the job accidents, motorcycle accidents, defective products, sports injuries (especially football, soccer, tennis, wrestling, and track and field), work injuries, bicycle accidents, slip and fall injuries, weight lifting too intensely, construction site accidents, and trying to stop or start too quickly or awkwardly.
Grading Muscle Strain Injuries
One system to grade muscle strain injuries is mostly based on how much stretching or tearing has happened. Severe discoloration and swelling symptoms point to grade 3 injuries. This is because the muscles have most likely been torn completely. The muscle is partially torn for grade 2 injuries. Bruising, tenderness, and swelling are additional symptoms of grade 2 muscle strains. Grade 1 injuries are slight enough that they do not actually affect the strength or functionality of the muscle.
Examples for Muscle Strain Injuries
Some muscle strains happen more frequently than others. They are: pulled backs, abs (abdominal) muscle strains, calf muscle strain, lower back muscle strain, hamstring muscle strain, quads (quadriceps) muscle strain, groin pull or muscle strain, chest muscle strain, leg muscle strain, Achilles tendon tear, tearing the rotator cuff, knee (or plantaris) muscle strain, bicep muscle strain, and arm muscle strain.
Muscle Strain Injury while Working
Muscle strains happen so frequently to people working that they are consistently in the top ten work injuries. The typical ways employees pull their muscles are: falling, tripping, lifting heavy objects, not using proper body mechanics, improperly using farm, construction or factor equipment, and stopping, twisting or rotating too quickly. Our work injury law firm has helped muscle strain victims with workers’ compensation since the late 1970s so we are well prepared and eager to help you.
Muscle Strain Injury Treatment
It is important to call for help if you’ve been injured. Using X-ray machines and other diagnostic and imaging devises, the doctor might be able to determine whether there was any damage to the surrounding bones and your body. Surgery is a possibility for Grade 3 muscle tears.
Signs of Severe Muscle Strain Injuries
If you find that you have any of these symptoms, seek immediate medical help as you may have a severe muscle strain or tear: You heard a “popping” sound when the injury took place, you have a lot of pain and swelling, you cannot walk, you have a high fever, and/or you have open wounds.
Contact Us Today ~ Free Consultation
We want to help you whenever you are ready: Call us 24 hours a day to schedule your free initial consultation and case evaluation. You will speak and meet with one of our experienced injury lawyers during the free meeting to discuss your potential case, your injury and how it happened, and your legal options. We work fully on a contingency basis for all of our injury clients so you only have to pay us if we win your case. The San Francisco muscle strain injury attorneys want to make this process as easy on you as possible. That means that if you are unable to get to our office, we will come to you at your home or hospital room. We are available to meet during Monday through Friday between 8:30am and 5:30pm and we will also meet you, by appointment, on Saturdays, Sundays and in the evening.
Law Firm of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo
San Francisco, California
We represent injury victims across the Bay Area and Northern California
(415) 200-0701
Prevention for Muscle Tears
The best ways to prevent these difficult and painful injuries include starting your physical activity slowly with a light warm-up and then proper stretching, staying in good physical shape, and always being mindful to use proper form when exerting yourself.
Ligament Sprains and Muscle Strains
Sprains and strains do sound alike but the two terms refer to very different body parts. Strains refer to tears or pulls to muscles and tendons while sprains refer to injuries that occur to ligaments.
