How important is getting an MRI to a personal injury case?
The answer here is that it depends on the issues in your personal injury case. However, it can be extremely important objective (independently verifiable) evidence to show your injury if you have continuing pain that is hard to document in any other way. For example, it’s hard to argue with an MRI that shows a herniated or bulging spinal disc rubbing on nerves. As personal injury trial attorneys we are better able to represent a client if we have an MRI showing an abnormality or some sort of damage, whether it’s to the back, neck, shoulder, knee, ankle, or any other part of the body. There are other tests that are also helpful such as CT scans, nerve conduction studies, and EMG’s. MRI’s can be very helpful in proving a rotator cuff injury, showing ACL or medial meniscus injuries among many other examples.
