Traumatic Injuries
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Mental Health After Trauma: What are the Healthcare Options?
Anyone who has been through a traumatic event knows the injuries aren’t just broken bones, but also the emotional trauma of surviving something horrific. These stress responses will often fade and the experience won’t interfere…
Spinal Cord Injuries in Motor Vehicle Collisions
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6995″ img_size=”Full”][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] While I often get to help survivors of traumatic brain injuries with their losses and plan for their futures, it’s hard to overlook that in many cases, a traumatic brain injury (TBI)…
Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
Two years ago, we reported on a medical study at the Keck Medical Center at USC in which a young man, 21-year old Kristopher Boesen, who was paralyzed from the neck down following a spinal…
Recent Study Explains Why Head and Face Pain Cause More Suffering
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…
Evaluation and Treatment of Post-Traumatic Trigeminal Neuralgia
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…
Complications of Trauma and Pregnancy
When a pregnant woman suffers a traumatic injury, medical providers face a host of complex challenges. On a fundamental level, the difficulties stem from the reality that both mother and fetus must be treated simultaneously. …
Children and Traumatic Injuries
Recognizing the needs and vulnerabilities of children, both law and medicine have special methods by which children are treated following a traumatic injury. In medicine, consideration of the difference between children and adults comes into…
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Each year in the United States, almost 2 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI); it is actually more common than stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.[1] Awareness about TBI continues to rise, as noted by…
Prolotherapy Study Discredits “Litigation Neurosis”
Insurance adjusters and defense attorneys often seek to undermine the credibility of individuals injured as the result of another person’s negligence in order to deny or reduce the amount paid on a claim. One common…
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Trauma
Though often associated with repetitive stress injury, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) can be caused motor vehicle collision or other trauma. Diagnosis of CTS as a result of trauma may be difficult due to a doctor’s…
