You Should Have A Back Injury Lawyer

I did not know that there are lawyers for different kinds of injuries.  I have read that there are head injury lawyers, Back Injury Lawyers, spinal cord injury lawyers. and many more.  What do these lawyers do and do they really have to represent people with injuries?  Maybe  they work on the settlement if the injury came from an accident.  Because I have seen someone got into an accident and he was not paid by the one who caused him the accident.  If he has a lawyer maybe that thing did not happen to him.