What are the Risks of Getting a Flu Shot Too High on the Arm?
There are right and wrong ways to administer vaccines. Although giving someone a flu shot may seem like a fairly straightforward process, mistakes during immunizations are common, and these mistakes often lead to a class of injuries known as Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA). One of the most-common mistakes that...
What are the Most-Common Vaccine Injuries?
While vaccine injuries are relatively rare overall, they are more common than most people realize. Each year, hundreds of individuals file claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), and these claimants represent only a small fraction of the vaccine recipients who experience pain and other symptoms as a result of...
Can You Suffer an Injury Following the Flu Vaccine?
Among the millions of Americans who get their annual flu shots, a small percentage experience pain that persists beyond the temporary localized pain at their injection site. This pain can range in intensity from mild to severe, and it can either remain localized to the shoulder or radiate through the arm and...