Last week while driving to work, you were stopped at a red light and glanced in the rear view mirror only to notice a car approaching from behind way too fast. The next thing you remember is the squeal of the tires and a loud crash with an accompanied sudden jolt as your car was […]
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Important Car Accident Injury Prevention
While it is hard prevent someone from crashing their car into yours, there are some things you can do to minimize you risk for a serious whiplash injury if and when a collision occurs. The first preventive measure is making sure your seat is upright and the head rest touches the top of your head. […]
The 3 Critical Components Of A Whiplash Injury
When considering whiplash injuries, three questions are important: What are the primary tissues that are injured during whiplash trauma? Which injured tissues are responsible for chronic whiplash injury pain? Which conservative treatments are best at preventing and treating chronic whiplash injury pain? Discussions to help answer these questions are to come in the following pages. However, […]
Whiplash Injuries: The Authorities Weigh In On “Frequency and Duration” of Treatment
In this month’s issue we’re going to talk about a topic in which there is surprisingly little written… the duration and frequency of treatment for whiplash injuries. While many individual authors have published recommendations based upon personal and or clinical experience, and a small number of good solid studies have in fact been published…. the […]
Understanding Chiropractic Care: Education, Accreditation, Practice, Science, Nobel Prize, Safety
••••••••• Background According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC), the top ten causes of yearly death are (1): Number of deaths for leading causes of death Heart disease: 695,547 Cancer: 605,213 COVID-19: 416,893 Accidents (unintentional injuries): 224,935 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 162,890 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,342 Alzheimer’s disease: […]
Neuropathic Pain vs. Soft Tissue Pain
All perceptions (e.g., hot, cold, loud, bright, smelly, hard, soft, sour, sweet, pain, etc.) are cortical, meaning perceived in the brain. All pain is perceived in the brain (1). Pain perception is brought to the brain by nerves. Structures that do not have a nerve supply (like articular hyaline cartilage, fingernail) cannot send the pain […]
Upper Cervical Spine Chiropractic Care
The Vagus Nerve and Musculoskeletal Pain By a wide margin, people go to chiropractors for the management of musculoskeletal pain. Recent formal reviews of the chiropractic profession indicate that 93% of chiropractic patients initially seek chiropractic care for spinal pain complaints: 63% for low back pain and 30% for neck pain. Patient satisfaction with their […]
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and Chiropractic Care
The Importance of Double Crush and Postural Distortions Background Nerves emanating from the neck (cervical spine) travel into the arm (shoulder, arm, forearm wrist, hand, fingers). When a patient presents with radiating symptoms (pain, tingling, numbness, etc.) into the arm, default thinking is that the patient has a neck problem. Therefore, the initial examination, imaging, […]
Helping the Brain by Treating the Neck
An internet search using “brain injury statistics” will locate an overwhelming volume of data, most of which cite the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A representative of credible (rounded) statistics reveals (1): Notice that at the bottom of the pyramid, there is a large group of traumatic brain injury persons who […]
The Importance of Sagittal Posture
The historic seminal book on orthopedics was written by Nicholas Andry in 1741 (1). The primary discussion of his book addressed the treatment of spinal distortions, beginning in childhood. Andry was a professor of medicine at the University of Paris. The word orthopedic is a composite of two Greek words: Ortho, meaning straight. Pedic, meaning […]
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