| Triplegia is a condition which causes a | | | | more severely affected; and spastic |
| person to be unable to feel or control | | | | quadriplegia, where both legs and both |
| an entire side of his or her body as | | | | arms are affected. |
| well as another of the person's arms or | | | | Triplegia is a devastating condition, as |
| legs. This paralysis of three | | | | is paraplegia and quadriplegia. Most |
| extremities is often caused by an | | | | victims of the condition require medical |
| accident such as an auto or motorcycle | | | | attention for the rest of their lives. |
| accident or violent acts such as gunshot | | | | If you or a loved one suffers from any |
| wounds. | | | | type of paralysis, it is important to |
| Other terms of paralysis include | | | | retain an attorney who is familiar with |
| paraplegia, the paralysis of a person's | | | | such conditions and who can maximize the |
| lower body and legs; quadriplegia, the | | | | recovery for a person's future. |
| paralysis of a person's body from the | | | | There is hope that some day, medical |
| neck down; and monoplegia, the paralysis | | | | research, such as that currently being |
| of just one arm or leg. Injuries that | | | | pursued with stem cell replacement, will |
| completely sever the spinal cord and | | | | also provide a form of treatment, if not |
| those that damage some of the nervous | | | | a cure. Any attorney who has represented |
| tissue in the spinal cord are common | | | | persons suffering from some level of |
| causes of triplegia and other levels of | | | | paralysis hopes such advances in medical |
| paralysis such as paraplegia and | | | | research come quickly. |
| quadriplegia. | | | | If you believe there is the possibility |
| Other terms used by doctors to describe | | | | that your triplegia, or that of a loved |
| conditions involving paralysis, include | | | | one, is due to the actions of another |
| spastic diplegia in which the degree of | | | | person or entity, we would encourage you |
| disability can vary between the arms and | | | | to contact the Law Offices of California |
| legs with the legs often being more | | | | Truck Accidents, Southern California |
| affected than the arms; spastic | | | | Triplegia Attorney for an analysis of |
| hemiplegia, where one side is affected | | | | your case. |
| of a person's body but the arm or leg is | | | | |