Repetitive Stress Injuries

Chicago Workers' Compensation Lawyer

Dedicated to Helping Workers with Repetitive Stress Injuries

Repetitive stress injury is a common work-related injury. If you are required to perform repeated activities with your hands and arms at work, you are at risk for a repetitive stress injury (RSI). Repetitive work activities place an unusual amount of stress on your muscles, tendons and ligaments. The cumulative trauma caused by overuse of your hands, wrists or arms can cause severe pain, nerve damage, and disability.

If you have shoulder, arm, wrist, or hand pain as a result of your job duties, you should notify your employer of your work injury promptly. For caring and experienced legal assistance with your Illinois workers' compensation claim contact Smoler Law Office in Chicago Illinois. Attorney Robert Smoler has almost 25 years of experience helping injured employees recover the workers' compensation benefits they are entitled to.

What is a Repetitive Stress Injury?

Repetitive stress injury does not refer to a single condition, but to a number of conditions which develop as a result of prolonged overuse of certain body parts. The most common repetitive stress injuries are to the wrist and hand and include:

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• DeQuervain's disease
• Tensoynovitis
• Tendonitis or bursitis
• Trigger finger
• Ganglion cyst

Certain shoulder injuries injuries are often caused by repetitive stress, including thoracic outlet syndrome and rotator cuff tendonitis. In many cases, an RSI can be relieved by medical treatment or surgery. However, in others a worker does not get better and is unable to return to the work he or she performed before the injury.

At Smoler Law Office, We Take RSI Seriously

Unfortunately many doctors, employers, and workers' compensation adjusters do not take repetitive stress work injuries seriously. These conditions are frequently blamed on pre-existing medical conditions or an employee's recreational activities. Robert Smoler is a workman's compensation lawyer who takes RSI seriously. Our Chicago legal team will fight for all of the work comp benefits you are entitled to including: medical treatment, temporary disability wage loss benefits, and vocational rehabilitation and retraining expenses if you cannot return to a suitable job following your personal injury.

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