Arm Injury Claims

If your arm injury wasn't your fault, you may be able to claim compensation

Each arm contains 30 bones, nerves, joints, muscles, and blood vessels. You can imagine that damaging any one of these can cause a good deal of discomfort and sometimes lead to disability.

Many of our arm muscles are used in everyday activities – from holding and lifting to writing or typing. It is important, if you injure your arm, including your forearm, shoulder, wrist or hand, that you take proper recovery advice to ensure quick and correct rehabilitation.

If the arm injury wasn’t your fault, you may also consider claiming compensation – especially as the injury could have caused you to take time off work and lose out on earnings.

Arm injury compensation needn’t be a scary and alien process. National Accident Helpline™ has specialist personal injury solicitors who will make the arm injury claims process easy, painless and transparent.

Arm/ Forearm

The arm consists of two areas: the area between your shoulder and elbow, known as the ‘arm’, and the area between the elbow and wrist, known as the ‘forearm’. Because your arms are used all the time, for all manner of tasks, they are one of the easier body parts to injure. Arm injuries can include broken bones as well as cuts, bruises, fractures, dislocation or burns.

Hand injuries and finger accidents are common as well and are covered on our hand injury page; repetitive strain injury page and vibration white finger page.

Wrist

The most common cause of a wrist injury is a fall. This can lead to fractures, breaks, or sprains. If you have had a fall at work, or someone else was to blame, you may be able to claim for compensation.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome is an injury of the wrist whereby a nerve gets compressed, causing numbness, weakness and ‘pins and needles’. It has not been proved that there is a definite connection between working conditions and carpal tunnel syndrome, so it can be hard to prove that carpal tunnel syndrome injuries have been caused in this way.

However, there is a continual debate and research into the question of whether working environments can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. In many cases, workers diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome are entitled to time off and compensation.

Elbow

Everyone knows what it feels like to hit your elbow and feel the pain of your ‘funny bone’ – it’s not very pleasant. Elbow injuries can be very serious and, as well as rendering your arm immobile, can also be very painful.

Sport accidents can be the cause of many broken and dislocated elbows, due to awkward landings or physical contact. Manual labour, lifting and construction work can all lead to elbow injuries as well.

Other injuries, including ‘tennis elbow’, can be induced through repetitive tasks such as hammering or using a screwdriver, and can make it hard to do simple tasks due to pain in the elbow and wrist.

Shoulder

Shoulder injuries can be common in manual labour, as frequent lifting and carrying can strain and injure the shoulder. There are also risks to working in factories or warehouses because of the machinery and moving parts. Your shoulder can easily be caught, knocked, broken or dislocated by the machinery.

Recovery on such an integral joint can take a long time and keep you out of work. In such instances, compensation can be the only way to recover lost earnings and help to make up for the trouble involved in having such an injury.