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Whiplash Victims: Future Risks Include More Than Neck Pain
In the February 2001 issue of The Advocate, we reported on a study from Sweden, published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, which revealed that whiplash victims experienced a three-fold increased risk of neck and…
Pathological Mechanism at Work in Chronic Whiplash
We recently learned that an abstract paper will be published in the 2001 proceedings of the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting that potentially breaks new ground in understanding the etilogy of chronic spine pain.1 The…
Acupuncture: Ancient Art and Modern Science
By Adler Giersch PS Acupuncture is widely practiced in the United States and through-out the world as a therapeutic intervention for numerous disease processes, including traumatic and non-traumatic musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies. Acupuncture has proved to…
Study Confirms No Connection Between Chronic Whiplash and Lawsuits
People who file a lawsuit after a whiplash injury are not more likely to sustain long term disability, according to research published in the June 26, 2001 issue of Neurology, the scientific Journal of the…
Neck Pain Among Whiplash Victims Seven Years Later
By E. Paul Giersch, Attorney at Law A study by researchers from the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, published in November, 2000, reports on the association between exposure to…
Recognizing Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in Injury Cases
Personal injury attorneys are often in a unique position to view the totality of the injured person’s condition, and to synthesize the diagnostic conclusions of a number of health care providers. This is especially true…
Litigation Neurosis: Factor or Fiction? A Review of Literature
Cervical spine and minor head injuries are a frequent result of motor vehicle accidents. Injured persons often present with symptoms such as forgetfulness, irritability, cognitive deficits, sleeping difficulties, headaches, visual distiburances, and neck pain. Some…
New Study on Response Characteristics of the Cervical Spine
The nature of cervical hyperflexion/hyperextension injuries and their importance in the medical arena and field of highway safety is well documented. Despite the mass of clinical references and increasing numbers of experimental papers in the…
Relationships Between Initial Clinical Findings & Accident Mechanisms
A recent study published in Neurology examined the relationship between initial symptoms following a acceleration-deceleration motor vehicle accident (whiplash injury) and certain mechanical features of the accident. Dr. Matthias Sturzenegger, et al., in Presenting symptoms…
Study Compares Conventional Physical Therapy and Intensive Exercises
All physical therapists, when treating low back injuries, recommend some form of back exercises or therapy. A recent study published in Spine1 studied two different types of physical therapy modalities. In a randomized, observer-blind trial,…
