The “Tissue – Tensegrity” Matrix And Chronic Low Back Pain Chiropractors primarily look at patient’s problems from a mechanical perspective. A classic chiropractic mechanical analogy is a pinched nerve (compressive neuropathology). Although chiropractors occasionally do treat compressive neuropathology, most chiropractors are aware that there are patients with compressive neuropathology that require a surgical decompression. Overall, […]
Spinal Joint Mechanoreceptors, Proprioception, and The Pain Gate
William H. Kirkaldy-Willis, MD, had an accomplished professional career. Dr. Kirkaldy-Willis was trained as an orthopedic surgeon. From 1965 to 1988 he was associated with the University Hospital in Saskatoon, Canada where he became Emeritus Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Head of the Department in 1967.He was President of the East African Association of Surgeons […]
Whiplash Injuries Review and Update on Facet Joint Trauma
For 34 years, my academic and clinical interests have primarily centered around whiplash trauma, its understanding and management. I have often heard that the pathology for both acute and chronic whiplash pain are unknown and undiagnosable. It is commonplace to label the pathology of whiplash syndrome as unknown, self limiting, psychometric, secondary gain, biosocial, etc. […]
Osteoarthritis
Another Look
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Spinal Manipulation and Low Back Pain Historical Review and Recent Updates
In 1985, Professor Emeritus of Orthopedics and Director of the Low-Back Pain Clinic at the University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada, Dr. W. H. Kirkaldy-Willis and his colleague Dr. J. D. Cassidy, presented the results of chiropractic spinal manipulation in 283 patients with chronic, disabling, treatment resistant low back pain. Their study was published in the journal […]
Whiplash Outcomes And Compensation
In 1961, Henry Miller published an article in the British Medical Journal titled (1): Accident Neurosis In this article, Dr. Miller stated that whiplash-injured patients are: “… likely to improve with cessation of litigation” The concept that chronic symptoms following whiplash injury exist as a consequence of an attempt to gain monetarily is often encountered. […]
Cervical Vertigo
Vertigo is defined as: “a condition in which somebody feels a sensation of whirling or tilting that causes a loss of balance.” To describe the sensation of vertigo, patients often use words such as dizziness, giddiness, unsteadiness, or lightheadedness. The neurological vertigo center is called the vestibular nucleus. The vestibular nucleus is located in the […]
Chiropractic For Spinal Pain
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Whiplash Injury and the Use of the Cervical Collar
Chronic neck pain ascribed to whiplash injury is a significant and costly problem. The longest study assessing the long-term effects of whiplash injury resulting from a motor vehicle collision showed that 55% of the participants had residual sequelae 17 years later (8). Most of these patients were continuing to receive some type of ongoing treatment. […]
A Review of the Life and Science of Ruth Jackson, MD
Dr. Ruth Jackson had such an accomplished life that shortly after her death in 1994 she was profiled in both the American Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (1) in 1995 and in the Iowa Orthopedic Journal in 2001 (3). Dr. Jackson’s profile in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery was simply titled: RUTH […]
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