Dr. Emil Seletz (b. 1907; d. 1999) was a neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills, California. His publications indicate that he worked at the Los Angeles General Hospital, and he was faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical School. Additionally, his internet biography indicates he was chief of neurosurgery at Cedar’s Hospital (now called Cedars-Sinai […]
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia Syndrome is the third most commonly diagnosed rheumatologic disorder, following osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain and tenderness, fatigue, morning stiffness, and sleep disturbance. Fibromyalgia is often disabling. Fibromyalgia is often treatment resistant. Fibromyalgia can be triggered by trauma (Greenfield, Waylonis, Buskila, Neumann). Studies report that between 25% and 50% […]
Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
The headlines in the lay press are troubling and disturbing. A front section full-page in the newspaper Wall Street Journal showing a person clenching their back while proclaiming (1): “More Than 100 Million American Adults Live with Chronic Pain” Another cover study in the Wall Street Journal quantifying the anatomical regions for American’s chronic pain […]
Car Accidents: Seat Belt Fulcrum Injury and the Cauda Equina Syndrome
Athletically, at age 21, Dave was a rising star. He was tough, fit, tall, strong, and very fast. In addition, he was gifted with superior eye-hand coordination. As a life-long athlete, his favorite sport was football, and in football he was exceptional. Dave was the starting wide receiver on a local college football team. Although […]
Car Accidents, Chiropractic And Children
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 […]
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 […]
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