If you have been hurt in a car accident, motorcycle wreck, trucking accident, workers’ compensation accident, or in a trip and fall or slip and fall at an apartment, hotel, store, restaurant, or other business, you should have two goals in mind—making sure you have the best physical recovery possible and making sure you and your family are fully compensated by insurance.
Finding the right car accident doctor to treat your injuries can make all the difference to both your physical recovery AND in ensuring you recover everything you are due from insurance. This guide will help you to find the best doctors who can help you with both goals.
NOTE: If you have an injury from an on-the-job accident or industrial accident see our guide: New York Workers’ Compensation Made Simple.
Car wrecks, trucking accidents, and trip, slip and falls cause different injuries than what most family doctors usually see and treat. You want a doctor experienced with “accident” injuries like concussions, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), whiplash injury, herniated or bulging discs, knee and hip injuries, multiple fractures (broken bones), internal injuries and soft tissue injuries. These injuries often require treatment with multiple medical specialists: orthopedic surgeon, neurologist, chiropractor, physiatrist, neurosurgeon, pain management specialist, a physical therapist to list a few.
A good accident doctor may be one of these specialists, but if not, he or she is an M.D. (Medical Doctor), D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), or a D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) who:
(1) knows accident injuries inside out and
(2) has a network of other specialists who are also experienced in treating accident injuries (a multi-specialty network).
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