Neck & Back Pain Diagnosis
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Whiplash Trauma, Alar Ligament Injury, and Chronic Neck Pain
The primary region of the human body to be injured in a whiplash accident is the neck. The whiplash injury is an inertial injury to the...
A Review Of The Literature
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Oct. 1986;18(5):489-500. John Kellett FROM ABSTRACT: The pathological processes [of soft...
Treatment of Joint Pain
We are going to deviate from the mechanical discussions of joint pain treatment. Usual topics such as physiotherapy, stretching,...
The Healing of Injured Soft Tissues
In this month’s issue we’re going to touch on area of patient treatment that has undergone enormous leaps and bounds in our understanding...
Back Pain Causes And More
Joint Motion’s Influence On… And The Potential Pitfalls Of Clinical Joint Immobilization Back in 1984, orthopedic surgeon Sir James...
Another Cause of Neck Pain: The Acute Locked Neck Synovial Fold Entrapment Syndrome
Kim was only nineteen years of age, yet she had already experienced three significant motor vehicle collisions, and in each she suffered...
Cervical Spine Injury and Clinical Instability
Whiplash injury is an inertial mechanical injury. Consequently, chiropractors, as a consequence of the mechanical nature of their...
Whiplash Injury, Chronic Pain, Non-Pharmacologic Managements Adjuncts
Not everyone injured in a motor vehicle collision recovers completely. A percentage of those injured will suffer for years or sometimes...
Chronic Pain Syndrome And Vitamin D
Humans evolved outdoors, in the sunshine. Exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet radiation produces a hormone known as “vitamin D”. Vitamin D...
The Vertebral Artery
The brain is supplied by blood from two arterial sources: the paired internal carotid arteries and the paired vertebral arteries. The...
The Double Crush Nerve Syndrome Often Overlooked As A Possible Answer For Patients With Unyielding U
In 1973, physicians Adrian Upton and Alan McComas introduced a concept suggesting that undiagnosed cervical spine problems could increase...
Whiplash Update Two Important Studies And Their Clinical Applications
BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM DAN MURPHY “The origin of all pain is inflammation and the inflammatory response.” “Irrespective of the type...
Soft Tissue Injury and Repair
HISTORY: Mandy, a 50-year-old female, was injured in a motor vehicle collision. Her stationary vehicle was struck from the rear by a...
Car Accidents, Chiropractic And Children
In the legal cases I have consulted in, often it is claimed that children cannot be injured in motor vehicle collisions, and therefore...
Osteoarthritis
November 2, 2010, researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at the University of California, San Francisco, published a study...
Whiplash Injury and Cervicogenic Headache
Barbara is a 45-year old woman with two adult children. She is employed full-time as a sales clerk at the local mall. Her job is not...
Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
The headlines in the lay press are troubling and disturbing. A front section full-page in the newspaper Wall Street Journal showing a...
Tissue Healing and Low Level Laser Therapy
The 2010 Olympic gold-medal downhill skier Lindsey Vonn was recently (March 8, 2010) interviewed in the magazine Time. Lindsey Vonn was...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia Syndrome is the third most commonly diagnosed rheumatologic disorder, following osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis....