In the legal cases I have consulted in, often it is claimed that children cannot be injured in motor vehicle collisions, and therefore they do not require any treatment. To escalate this perspective, I have consulted in cases where the chiropractor treating such a child is accused of committing fraud, a crime. Occasionally, these cases […]
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Soft Tissue Injury and Repair
HISTORY: Mandy, a 50-year-old female, was injured in a motor vehicle collision. Her stationary vehicle was struck from the rear by a vehicle of similar mass that was traveling at a speed of approximately 20 miles per hour at the time of collision. Damage to her vehicle was judged to be $6,600. The collision caught […]
Back Pain Causes And More
Joint Motion’s Influence On… Tissue Response, Infection, Inflammation, Trauma & Healing… And The Potential Pitfalls Of Clinical Joint Immobilization Back in 1984, orthopedic surgeon Sir James Cyriax, MD, reviewed The Concept Of Motion in his Textbook of Orthopaedic Medicine, Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Lesions (1). In this text, Dr. Cyriax carefully noted that harmful infections […]
The Healing of Injured Soft Tissues
In this month’s issue we’re going to touch on area of patient treatment that has undergone enormous leaps and bounds in our understanding over the last decade. An area I will refer to as “Post-Traumatic Soft Tissue Injury”. Even with recent breakthroughs in understanding the physiology of repair (and possibly because of these RECENT breakthroughs) […]
A Review Of The Literature
Back Pain, Acute Soft Tissue Injuries, Mobilization, & Fibromyalgia A Review Of The Literature Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Oct. 1986;18(5):489-500. John Kellett FROM ABSTRACT: The pathological processes [of soft tissue injury and repair] at a cellular level are described in three phases: acute inflammatory, repair, and remodelling. The management of acute soft […]
Posture Concepts
Posture is important to health and physiology. Entire medical texts and chapters in medical texts are dedicated to posture and its influences (1,2). An excellent description of the importance of gravity and posture on physiology is found in the text by James Oschman, PhD, titled (Oschman): Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis Dr. Oschman notes: Gravity […]
Pain Concepts Adjunct Management
QUESTION: If a tree falls in the woods when no one is present, does it make a sound? COMMON RESPONSE LAY PERSON: Yes COMMON RESPONSE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL: No DISCUSSION: All perceptions are cortical. The perception of sound is a cortical event. If no one is present, there is no cortex present, and therefore there is […]
Regular Chiropractic Care and Quality of Life
WebMD says, “chiropractic care is considered a safe, effective treatment for acute low back pain, neck pain, headaches, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia.” A large literature review from the UK published in 2010 (The Bronfort Report) reported “moderate to high-quality evidence” for manual therapy for the following conditions: acute low back pain, chronic low back pain (>3 […]
Soft Tissue Injury and Repair
Phases of Healing Improvements in Timing and Quality of Healing Problems and Residual Characteristics There are many published journal articles and books pertaining to the topic of “Soft Tissue Injury and Repair.” My favorites include: Studies on development of connective tissue in transparent chambers in rabbit’s ear; American Journal of Anatomy; 1940. Orthopaedic Medicine, Diagnosis […]
Cervical Spine Headaches
A Mechanical Model Involving the Spinal Dura Mater and the Suboccipital Muscles For more than half a century respected authors, clinicians, and journals have claimed that various problems of the cervical spine can cause headaches. As an example, in 1958, Beverly Hills neurosurgeon Emil Seletz, MD, authors an article titled Headache of Extracranial Origin, published […]