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Numbness
Reduced or absent sensation can affect safety, balance, grip, coordination, and the ability to detect temperature, pressure, or injury.
Dallas–Fort Worth Nerve Damage Injury Lawyer
Nerve injuries can change
strength, feeling, and function.
Traumatic nerve damage can cause burning pain, numbness, weakness, hypersensitivity, loss of coordination, reduced movement, and permanent neurological impairment.
The Piri Law Firm represents people throughout Dallas–Fort Worth whose accidents have caused serious peripheral nerve injuries, neuropathy, chronic nerve pain, and functional limitations.
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Direct Answer
What can traumatic nerve damage do?
Traumatic nerve damage can interfere with the signals that control sensation and movement. Depending on the nerve and severity of injury, symptoms can include numbness, tingling, burning or electric pain, hypersensitivity, muscle weakness, reduced coordination, and permanent loss of normal function.
Neurological Injury
A nerve injury may affect both what you feel and what you can do.
Neurological testing, specialist records, electrodiagnostic studies, physical findings, rehabilitation records, and documented functional limitations can help establish the full extent of the injury.
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Burning & Shooting Pain
Neuropathic pain may feel burning, electrical, stabbing, shooting, or tingling and can persist after other injuries have healed.
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Muscle Weakness
Motor nerve damage can reduce strength and interfere with lifting, gripping, walking, climbing stairs, or controlling an injured limb.
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Hypersensitivity
Ordinary touch, pressure, clothing, movement, or temperature changes may become uncomfortable or severely painful.
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Loss of Coordination
Neurological impairment can affect fine motor control, balance, dexterity, gait, and precise movement.
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Permanent Functional Loss
Severe nerve injury may leave lasting limitations involving mobility, hand function, strength, endurance, sensation, or independence.
Rehabilitation & Function
Recovery may require retraining movement as well as treating pain.
Treatment can include neurological evaluation, physical or occupational therapy, medication, injections, surgical procedures, pain management, braces, adaptive equipment, and repeated functional assessment.
Neurology and specialist records
EMG and nerve-conduction testing when indicated
Physical and occupational therapy
Future treatment and rehabilitation planning
Building The Nerve Damage Case
Four questions help establish permanent neurological loss.
Which nerve was injured?
Identifying the affected nerve or nerve distribution helps explain the pattern of pain, weakness, numbness, sensory loss, or impaired movement.
How did the nerve injury occur?
Nerves can be compressed, stretched, crushed, cut, entrapped, or injured during fractures, dislocations, surgery, or other serious trauma.
What objective findings exist?
Strength testing, reflex changes, sensory findings, electrodiagnostic testing, imaging, surgical findings, and specialist examinations may help document the injury.
How has function changed?
Walking, gripping, lifting, typing, driving, standing, balance, sleep, work, and ordinary household activities may all be affected.
How Nerve Injuries Happen
Different forms of trauma can damage peripheral nerves.
Understanding the mechanism helps connect the neurological symptoms to the accident and identify the medical and liability evidence that should be preserved.
Crush Injuries
Compression can damage nerves along with muscles, blood vessels, bones, and other surrounding structures.
Explore →Orthopedic Trauma
Fractures, dislocations, joint damage, and surgical procedures can stretch, compress, or injure nearby nerves.
Explore →Degloving & Soft-Tissue Injury
Severe tissue trauma can damage nerves directly and may lead to sensory loss, weakness, chronic pain, or permanent impairment.
Explore →Amputation Injuries
Limb loss can involve severe nerve trauma, residual-limb pain, phantom sensations, and lifelong neurological symptoms.
Explore →Permanent Neurological Impairment
The lasting injury may be pain, weakness, numbness—or all three.
A complete damages record should document not only the diagnosis but also how nerve damage changes work capacity, mobility, dexterity, sleep, endurance, independence, and ordinary daily activities.
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Nerve damage often overlaps with other catastrophic injuries.
Related injury pages help connect neurological impairment with the original trauma, functional loss, pain, rehabilitation, and future medical needs.
Loss of Limb Function
Permanent weakness, limited motion, loss of dexterity, gait impairment, and reduced use of an injured extremity.
Explore →Catastrophic Injuries
Permanent impairment, future medical care, reduced independence, and substantial lifetime damages.
Explore →Paralysis Injuries
Serious neurological trauma involving partial or complete motor-function loss and long-term mobility needs.
Explore →Chronic Pain
Persistent neuropathic pain can affect sleep, movement, concentration, employment, and everyday function.
Explore →Severe Burn Injuries
Burn trauma can damage peripheral nerves and lead to hypersensitivity, weakness, pain, and permanent functional limitations.
Explore →Pelvic Fractures
Pelvic trauma may involve nerve injury, weakness, mobility limitations, gait changes, and long-term rehabilitation.
Explore →Facial Injuries
Facial trauma can injure sensory and motor nerves and produce numbness, weakness, pain, or altered movement.
Explore →Personal Injury
Explore the broader Dallas–Fort Worth personal injury practice.
Explore →Frequently Asked Questions
Nerve damage injury questions.
Can nerve damage be permanent after an accident?
Yes. Some nerve injuries heal partially or completely, while others can leave permanent pain, weakness, numbness, sensory loss, or impaired movement depending on the type and severity of damage.
How is nerve damage diagnosed?
Diagnosis may involve neurological examination, strength and sensory testing, imaging, electrodiagnostic studies such as EMG or nerve-conduction testing, and other specialist evaluations.
Can nerve damage affect my ability to work?
Yes. Weakness, numbness, chronic pain, reduced dexterity, limited endurance, or mobility problems can interfere with physical and sedentary occupations depending on the affected nerves and job duties.
Can future nerve treatment be included in damages?
Potentially. When future rehabilitation, medication, specialist treatment, procedures, surgery, pain management, or adaptive equipment is medically supported, those needs may be relevant to damages.
How long do I have to file a personal injury claim in Texas?
Texas generally applies a two-year limitations period to personal injury claims, although exceptions can apply. Evidence should be preserved much sooner.
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What Are You Facing?
Tell us how the injury occurred, what neurological symptoms developed, what testing or treatment has been performed, what function has been lost, and how the nerve damage affects your work and daily life.
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