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A brain injury can be devastating and can often pose all sorts of challenges: social, familial, and personal. One of most significant challenges any brain injury survivor can face is post-traumatic depression, or an aggravation…
A 2017 article in Spine [1] cites a study where Ph.D. researchers looked at the results of chiropractic care from a twelve month treatment period. Some key takeaways from the article: Back pain (63.0%) and…
For the hundreds of thousands of individuals[1] who suffer from concussion (also called traumatic brain injury) per year, a common question is what the long term effects are from such an injury. Understanding this could…
It has been our experience that those with traumatic injuries often report pain in the head, face, eyes, ears and mouth (such as chronic headaches, or trigeminal neuralgia) as more severe, more debilitating, more disruptive…
Most people are now familiar with concussion risks and football, thanks in large part to awareness stemming from Washington’s first-in-the-nation legislation (The Zackery Lystedt Law[1]) aimed at preventing preventable brain injuries, as well as national…
The phrase “preexisting condition” often causes some confusion for health care providers when they are asked to apportion a percentage of a patient’s condition between a preexisting condition and a new trauma. The purpose of…
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, each year, there are approximately 17,000 new cases of spinal cord injury in the United States, with motor vehicle collisions being the leading cause.[1] A spinal…
One major concern for those involved a traumatic injury such as a motor vehicle collision is how long recovery will take from their injuries and when will they be all better. Medical research and our…
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a rare and painful neuropathic condition that affects the trigeminal, or 5th cranial nerve, one of the most widely distributed nerves in the head. [1] While the cause of TN in…
Each year in the United States, well over 1 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and seek treatment at an emergency room in the United States, approximately 80% of which are “mild”[1] TBIs…