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Straight Talk: Vaccines and Shoulder Pain
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Straight Talk: Vaccines Shouldn’t Cause Long-Lasting Shoulder Pain
With vaccines on everybody’s mind these days, it isn’t a surprise that there’s been a renewed interest in topics like SIRVA, which stands for Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration. It’s a legal term for pain, weakness, swelling, and other localized side- effects that occur after a vaccine injection in the shoulder.
SIRVA is not normal. True, some vaccines are more likely to be tender than others (tetanus shots are the most infamous, and the COVID-19 vaccine is reported as being relatively tenderizing as well), but these symptoms should subside after a few days.
They shouldn’t get that bad, and they shouldn’t get worse after 24–36 hours.
Now, the question that might be arising from SIRVA is: Are COVID-19 vaccines covered by the NVICP? Well, everything related to the coronavirus is relatively new, so things might change next month. Scan the QR code above to know more about COVID-19 vaccine injuries. And if SIRVA is the result of almost any other vaccine injury, you could have legal options that you’re not aware of yet. Don’t hesitate, scan the QR code that accompanies this article and find every answer to your questions about SIRVA, vaccines, or any other personal-injury-related topic.
And it’s more common than you might think.
Every day, thousands of people in the United States are safely vaccinated against diseases and illnesses. However, sometimes rare and debilitating reactions to vaccinations might happen. As a result, Congress created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) to help victims of adverse vaccine secondary effects. So you are entitled to compensation available from a $3 billion vaccine trust fund approved by the U.S. Congress.
A little pain and swelling is normal, although we’d argue that most vaccine shots should feel “tender” instead of actual pain. But that’s the thing: Sometimes, patients get the shot and do feel pain — real pain. They get numb and tingly all up and down their arm. Discomfort can spread to the back, neck, and upper chest, resulting in a “regional” condition generally referred to as SIRVA.
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