The lawyer seems to think so. I have moderate to severe damage to the C3 and C4 vertebrae in my back, neck, which causes numbness and regular pain and might be the reasons why my thumbs aren't working right anymore. The thing is, I had to quit a job. The advise nurse told me to go to the emergency room, even though we were pretty sure I wasn't having a heart attack, but at the hospital they told me that I needed an MRI for starters for what they thought was Radiculopahy, basically, your nerves being compacted in your spinal column...etc. Funny name, I know, Radiculopathy.