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Nerve Damage

Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, South Carolina

Everything your body does involves your nervous system from sensing cold and heat, to regulating your breathing and controlling your muscles. When you sustain an injury that involves damage to the nerves, the pain may be mild, but the injury can be severe and drastically affect the quality of your life. At the Dick James Law Firm, we are experienced in fighting for the rights of employees who have suffered workplace injuries in the Greenville, South Carolina area.

Nerves in the Body

The human body is made up of three types of nerves. The autonomic nerves control involuntary and partially voluntary functions of the body. These include:

• Blood pressure
• Heart rate
• Temperature regulation
• Digestion

The motor nerves control all of your movements and actions by carrying signals from your brain and spinal cord to the muscles. The sensory nerves carry the signals that allow you to feel sensations like pain from your skin and muscles back to your brain and spinal cord.

Symptoms of Nerve Damage

There are many different symptoms that can show you have suffered nerve damage. Which ones you display depend on which nerves have been affected and where they are located.

Autonomic nerve damage may produce these symptoms:

• Lightheadedness
• Inability to sense pain in the chest
• Too much or too little sweating
• Constipation
• Dry mouth
• Dry eyes
• Bladder dysfunction
• Sexual dysfunction

Damage to the motor nerves may produce symptoms such as:

• Paralysis
• Weakness
• Muscle atrophy
• Twitching

Sensory nerve damage may produce the following symptoms:

• Pain
• Sensitivity
• Numbness
• Tingling
• Prickling
• Burning

Depending on the severity of your injuries, you may experience the symptoms of more than one type of nerve damage. Because nerve damage is often progressive, in order to determine the extent of the damage you have sustained, it is important that you seek medical help as soon as possible.

In the majority of circumstances, nerve damage cannot be completely cured, but the symptoms and the likelihood of permanent damage may be reduced if medical attention is obtained as soon as symptoms arise.

If you believe you have suffered nerve damage as a result of a workplace injury, please contact the Dick James Law Firm so that we can protect your legal rights to Workers' Compensation or personal injury benefits in Anderson, Spartanburg and Greenville, South Carolina.