In our new Pennsylvania personal injury article, we discuss cosmetic repair of scars resulting from a Bucks County or Philadelphia accident injury.  Addressing cosmetic needs such as scar reduction from an accident injury is only a part of your full recovery. We understand that accident injury recovery is a process of emotional and physical healing [...]

Epidural injections can be used as a method of pain management for back and neck injuries after a car accident. The injections can be used for treatment, but also for diagnostic purposes.  If your doctor injects the mixture of steroids and anesthetic into an area and the pain goes away, your doctor will then know [...]

Physical therapy is often recommended for victims of auto accidents in the Philadelphia area in the hopes of a speedy and complete recovery. Several common auto accident injuries can be treated with the help of a specialized physical therapist and a physical therapy regimen tailored to you. The following are  two of the most common physical [...]

Neck sprains, neck strains, whiplash, herniated discs and bulging discs—these are some of the most common neck injuries that can result in neck pain in Bucks County. Your neck is made up of many fragile bones, muscles and ligaments, all of which can easily be damaged in a Philadelphia area accident. These neck injuries can result [...]

Have you suffered a facial injury or jaw injury in a Bucks County auto accident? If so, you know how difficult it is to cope with and recover from these particular types of personal injuries. Facial injuries often leave scarring or disfiguration, while jaw injuries can leave an auto accident victim in pain while completing [...]

Common to Bensalem, PA accidents are neck and back injuries; especially spinal disc injury.  An epidural injection may relieve your pain and more importantly, avoid the need for surgery.  Our new article discusses the epidural injection as an option for Bucks County drivers who have been personally injured in an accident on the area’s congested [...]

If you’ve suffered a back injury as the result of a Bucks County auto accident, you want relief from the back pain you’ve been left with. There are several options for relief, surgery being the last in line in a variety of options. · Pain Medication- For short term pain, over the counter medications may [...]

A personal injury as a result of a car accident can be hard to understand. Medical terminology isn’t really totally understood by unless you are in the medical profession or have had past experience with a similar personal injury. Knowing what your injury means will help you better understand how to go about recovering from [...]

Whiplash and headaches are different injuries that can result from similar auto accidents in the Philadelphia area. The most common cause of both head injuries is a rear-end collision, when a victim’s head is usually suddenly jerked back and forth. In whiplash, the ligaments of the neck muscles may tear and cause pain until healed. [...]

A brain injury can be devastating. The lasting disabilities that result from brain injuries caused by accidents in Bucks County, Pennsylvania can vary from cognitive issues to behavioral and mental health problems. A neurologist is trained to be able to detect the signs of further brain injury after the initial injury. A neurologist uses a [...]

Our shoulders are very flexible and allow us great range of motion.  They are also highly at risk for injury from a Bucks County car accident, a Mercer County bicycle accident, or a Philadelphia pedestrian accident.   When involved in a car accident injury, it is not unusual to feel some shoulder pain afterward.  It is [...]

The neck (cervical spine) is the most vulnerable part of the spinal column.  When you are the victim of a car accident, motorcycle accident, or truck accident your neck is often forced to move beyond its range of motion – either from side to side, front to back, or back to front upon impact, depending [...]

The knee is the largest joint in the body and largely responsible for our mobility.  Not something you may often think about but when your mobility is compromised due to knee injuries from a car accident it becomes very clear just how important our legs are to daily living.  Knee injuries are not the first [...]

If you have been involved in a Philadelphia or Bucks County auto accident, find out if you have enough underinsured or uninsured car accident insurance to protect you and your family.

In our personal injury law practice at Saile & Saile LLP, we have patients who have fractured their feet due to trips, slips, and/or fall-downs. A common broken bone or fracture involving the foot is called a Lisfranc fracture. The name “Lisfranc” comes from the name of a French field surgeon who amputated soldiers’ feet [...]

You may have heard in national news that the State of California is allowing a victim of a car accident to sue the person who tried to help her at the scene of the car accident. Last week, the Supreme Court of the State of California ruled that the state’s “Good Samaritan” law did not [...]

In a decision last week, an NJ court ruled that the statute of limitations in a NJ personal injury case, as a result of a NJ car accident, will not be extended by the “Discovery Rule” in an NJ verbal threshold – limited tort injury case. In a typical New Jersey car accident – NJ [...]

In PA personal injury cases, including car accident cases there are two categories of damages. Economic damages, sometimes known as out-of-pocket costs, consist of: wage loss, medical bills, car repair bills, and other costs that have a concrete value. The other type of recoverable damages in a Pennsylvania injury case are called non-economic damages. Non-economic [...]

Many personal injury victims resort to a pain management doctor to deal with their day-to-day pain from a car accident or a fall down.   This is usually only after these individuals have undergone chiropractic care or some sort of physical therapy. A common form of pain management care utilized today are epidural injections.   An epidural [...]

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) is the result of pressure of a nerve bundle in the neck between the collar bone and a rib caused by a spasm of the scalenus muscle or a congenital misplacement of the muscle into the first rib.    Symptoms of TOS are weakness, tingling, numbness of the arm and portion [...]