| Every day when you go to work, you do so with a | | | | professional. These more serious injuries are also |
| commitment to your employer, to yourself, and to | | | | those which have a greater probability of requiring an |
| your family. The nobility of the American work ethic | | | | employee to miss work time and thereby lose out on |
| has been one of the most valuable assets to this | | | | the wages upon which his or her family depends. |
| nation during the course of its more than two | | | | Shoulder injuries tend to fall into this category |
| hundred year history. Unfortunately, the rigorous | | | | because of the pivotal role that the shoulder plays in |
| demands of one's employment may subject them to | | | | all arm movements. |
| the risk of sustaining or developing an injury or illness | | | | The proper function of the shoulder is enabled by the |
| on the job. Depending upon the nature and the | | | | successful interaction of numerous muscles, bones, |
| severity of one's work-related injury, it may be | | | | and connective tissues. An injury to any part of this |
| necessary to seek medical attention and to miss one | | | | complex system can be intensely painful and might |
| or more shifts at work. Most workers are entitled to | | | | make fluid and pain free movement impossible. |
| file a claim for workers' compensation benefits that | | | | Understandably, then, executing your job |
| are mandated by state law. | | | | responsibilities throughout the course of an 8 hour |
| The kinds of injuries that are sustained or expected | | | | workday can be a laughable prospect. Different |
| in a particular occupation are largely shaped by the | | | | shoulder injuries that one might suffer include: |
| environmental conditions in which the job | | | | - Dislocations of the shoulder |
| responsibilities are to be executed and the physical | | | | - Shoulder bursitis |
| demands of the labor itself. But any position has the | | | | - Shoulder tendonitis |
| potential to result in an employee's injury because it | | | | - Rotator cuff tears |
| only takes one minor lapse in concentration on the | | | | - Impingement of shoulder nerves |
| part of a co-worker or one iteration too many of a | | | | - Fractured bones For Help with a Workers' Comp |
| physical motion to pass the threshold between health | | | | Claim |
| and injury. | | | | There are a number of potential obstacles to |
| Common Kinds of Shoulder Injuries | | | | receiving the benefits that you are due. For help |
| Any part of the body has the potential to be hurt, | | | | overcoming them, contact the Fayetteville workers' |
| but there are some injuries which are more likely than | | | | compensation lawyers of Scudder & Hedrick, P.L.L.C. |
| others to require treatment by a healthcare | | | | |