Neck Injury
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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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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…
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Organic Basis for the Pain Associated with Soft Tissue Injuries
A recent study published in Spine, “Acute Injuries to Cervical Joints: An Autopsy Study of Neck Sprain,” by J.R. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., and L.T. Twomey, Ph.D., establishes an organic basis for pain-associated cervical soft tissue…
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Long Term Prognosis of Soft Tissue Injuries of the Neck
“Physical findings after whiplash … are seldom commensurate with the severity of symptoms experienced and the findings are gone months before the symptoms abate.” M. Hohl, M.D., Soft Tissues of the Neck, Clinical Orthopedics and…
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Biomechanics of a Cervical Hyper-extension/flexion Injury
The cervical spine is a very complex structure. An understanding of the mechanisms involved in hyper-extension/flexion injuries requires the patient’s doctor to be familiar with the anatomy of the neck, how acceleration forces impact the…
