Cervical Spine
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and ER Visits
Jane Crenshaw[1] suffered life-altering spinal cord injuries at a local ski resort. When she was admitted to a nearby Level 1 Trauma Center for treatment, however, the focus was not on whether she had suffered…
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Neck and Car Crashes: A Bad Combination
The neck is a very complex structure. Many medical researchers and healthcare providers have noted that the neck’s structure is more vulnerable and subject to injury than any other portion of the spine. The neck…
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Using Flexion-Extension MRI To Assess the Cervical Spine
The May 2002 edition of Emergency Radiology published “The Use of Flexion and Extension MR in the Evaluation of Cervical Spine Trauma: Initial Experience in 100 Trauma Patients Compared with 100 Normal Subjects.” Emergency Radiology…
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Whiplash Injury: Vehicle, Seat, Occupant and Tissue Responses
Gunter Siegmund, Ph.D., Eng.* is one of the leading research scientists in the field of motor vehicle collision injuries who works out of the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.…
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“Unseen” Cervical Injury From Motor Vehicle Collision Whiplash
One of the enduring challenges to research into whiplash injuries from auto accidents is the fact that available technologies do not permit effective pathoanatomical examination of accident survivors. Autopsy of these patients while the surest…
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Predicting Chronic Whiplash in Motor Vehicle Collision
By E. Paul Giersch, Attorney at Law A recently published study by researchers in Ontario offers a clinical decision rule for early prediction of long-term whiplash associated disorder following rear end motor vehicle collisions.* It also…
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“Whiplash” Injuries – New Study Shows Significant Long Term Effects
By Adler Giersch PS For years the battle has raged between those who maintain strain/sprain injuries of the type referred to in common parlance as “Whiplash” cause only short term health issues and those who maintain…
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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…
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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…
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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…
