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Sure. So, there's two main types of injuries in workers comp. One is a traumatic injury. You slip and fall on ice, you fall down a flight of stairs, you're lifting something, something hurts you. That's you report that, that's we call a traumatic injury. Um, however, there are things called repetitive stress or occupational disease injuries. The most common occurrence and the one that people seem to understand the best is carpal tunnel syndrome. uh person who's doing a lot of
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data entry uh all day long, writing, typing, they may get problems with their hands. They may develop carpal tunnel numbness in the hands and pain and now that is a pretty well recognized thing now. So, but there also could be occupational diseases such as exposure to mold, exposure to a carcinogen or an allergen or just you know problems you know over from lifting or feet problems from walking for great periods of time. But the most important thing with these cases is you have to get medical that
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documents these injuries. If you fall down a flight of steps in front of five people, it's very simple to understand what has hurt and why it's hurt. If you come into work on a Tuesday and you're working and you start to feel pain and nothing's happened to you, it doesn't mean it's not workers comp. It just means we have to be able to prove that the the activities that you're doing at work cause these problems. And again, back to carpal tunnel, it's it's an easy
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thing to understand because we get with writing, with typing, we all use devices all day long. And if you're using it for the job, those repetitive motions can cause an injury that is not from a trauma, but is clearly related to work. So those cases require more litigation. Quite honestly, they're provable, and I I won't say easy to prove, right? But they are it is out there. If as long as you have medical evidence to substantiate it, it's not a difficult case as long as as we do it. That is the kind of case I
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would say to you without question. Uh you cannot do on your own. You need an attorney that specializes in this for that type of injury.
