A healthy lifestyle is very important. Healthy eating, getting enough sleep and lots of exercise are part of this.
Good mental health is also important.
We also like to travel all over the world, by car or by plane.
This goes without saying for most people. This can be different after an accident.
In the event of an accident, for example a chain collision (Dutch: kettingbotsing), you can be injured, which will change your life for 100%, including your lifestyle.
And traveling is suddenly not so obvious anymore!
Lifestyle after a traffic accident or occupational accident
Suppose you have a healthy lifestyle. You eat healthy and you walk or run several times a week. You also go to the gym.
Mental and physical health is good. But then you have a traffic accident or get injured at work.
There is permanent injury that prevents you from running.
Walking and running are no longer possible and going to the gym only in a wheelchair.
Your life can therefore change 100% after an accident. Because the accident deteriorates your lifestyle both physically and mentally.
Psychological complaints such as depression or anxiety often arise.
Fortunately, it is possible to rehabilitate after an accident. There are rehabilitation doctors, rehabilitation centers and physiotherapists for this.
For mental health there are treatments from a psychologist, for example to get rid of anxiety complaints.
Of course it is nice that these treatments are available, but there are high costs involved.
However, in the event of a traffic accident or work accident, there is often a liable party who must pay these costs. It is then often the personal injury insurer that pays these costs.
Costs for rehabilitation are therefore often part of a personal injury compensation (Dutch: letselschade vergoeding)
Traveling with injury
Traveling after an accident can also cause problems.
For example, personal injury victims in a wheelchair can travel on an airplane, but often at an additional cost because more space is required. And in hotels, an adapted room must be used.
Holidays with injuries are therefore possible, but certainly not easy.
There are also often high costs involved. Sometimes even guidance is needed, for example when you are no longer mobile.
In this case too, in the event of injury caused by the fault of another person, a claim can be made for personal injury compensation of which these costs are part.
In the Netherlands, recovering injuries after an accident has become very common. Personal injury lawyers are active everywhere.
For example, a personal injury lawyer in Rotterdam (Dutch: letselschade advocaat in Rotterdam). Incidentally, in many European countries you can go to a personal injury lawyer to recover personal injury claims.
So, after an accident, you can still have a healthy lifestyle and continue to travel despite an injury!