{"id":452,"date":"2012-07-12T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-09-14T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:25:00","slug":"olympic-gold-medalist-fights-to-recover-from-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/olympic-gold-medalist-fights-to-recover-from-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Gold Medalist Fights to Recover From Car Accident."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rachel Morris, a gold medal-winning hand-cyclist in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, was struck by a car last week and now faces a race to recover in time for the Paralympic time trials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJ5chbI1Ck8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 33 year-old Olympian was training near her home with her hand-cycle in a time trial when a car struck her. Morris suffered whiplash injuries to her back and serious personal injuries to her shoulder. Her bike was also destroyed in the car accident.<\/p>\n<p>Morris suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which seriously impacts her ability to recover from injuries. The condition causes extreme pain and related sensory abnormalities. As a result, when Morris suffers an injury, her body reacts in a damaging way, compromising her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Morris is scheduled to defend her Paralympic time trial title later this year, and will need to make a speedy and healthy recovery in order to continue training for the event.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you love has suffered serious personal injury or wrongful death in a Massachusetts car accident or a Massachusetts bicycle accident, and need a <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-information-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, MA personal injury lawyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-wrongful-death.php\">Boston, MA wrongful death lawyer<\/a> or Massachusetts car accident lawyer to pursue your Massachusetts auto accident claim, please call one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\">Boston, MA car accident lawyers<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-bicycle-accident-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston,\u00a0MA\u00a0bicycle accident lawyer<\/a> professionals today at <strong>617-787-3700<\/strong>. Our Boston, Massachusetts car accident law office is on call <strong>24 hours a day, 7 days a week<\/strong>, to work with you. Our highly skilled and expert Massachusetts car accident attorneys have won millions of dollars in personal injury damages owed to our clients.<\/p>\n<p>Please call to speak with a <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\">Boston personal injury lawyer<\/a> professional, <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/massachusetts-boston-personal-injury-wrongful-death.php\">Boston, MA wrongful death lawyer<\/a> or Boston, MA car accident lawyer today at <strong>617-787-3700<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Call our Boston, Massachusetts law office <strong>24\/7<\/strong>. <strong>Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Morris, a gold medal-winning hand-cyclist in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, was struck by a car last week and now faces a race to recover in time for the Paralympic time trials. The 33 year-old Olympian was training near her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/olympic-gold-medalist-fights-to-recover-from-car-accident\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}