There are a lot of myths related to car crashes and low-speed collisions. Often the vehicles involved have a small amount of visible damage or no visible damage at all. Some “experts” believe that an individual in a vehicle involved in a collision cannot be injured if the vehicle sustains only minimum structural damage. This
Significant injuries occur at low speeds. There is NO correlation between the amount of damage to the car and occupant injury. Usually, low speed collisions (parking lots for example) do not show significant damage to a car. That is by design. Cars are built stiffer. Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is simply transferred
Crashes happen. We hope they don’t and we prepare ourselves by taking precautions like wearing seatbelts and placing our younger children into car seats or booster seat based on guidelines and age, height and weight considerations. Unfortunately, children are often passive recipients of these collisions, which is the leading cause of reasons to visit an
BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM DR. GARRETH MACDONALD, D.C. All pain has an inflammatory component. In his 2007 article, Omoigui, concludes: “The origin of all pain is inflammation and the inflammatory response.” “Irrespective of the type of pain, whether it is acute or chronic pain, peripheral or central pain, nociceptive or neuropathic pain, the underlying origin is
When car accident victims are examined post-collision, many clinicians look to the neck since it is a commonly affected body part. What often happens, though, is the clinician gets fixated on that part of the body and does not carefully look elsewhere.
Spinal manipulation (Chiropractic Adjustments) for Subacute and Chronic Lumbar Radiculopathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial The American Journal of MedicineJanuary 2021; Vol. 134; No. 1; pp. 135−141 Seyedezahra Hosseini Ghasabmahaleh, MD, Zahra Rezasoltani, MD, Afsaneh Dadarkhah, MSc, Sanaz Hamidipanah, MD, Reza Kazempour Mofrad, Sharif Najafi, MDThis study cites 22 references. The objective of this study was to evaluate the
After a long day of work, house chores, and playing with our children, we long for a good night’s sleep. But when this is not possible many problems arise: Lack of alertness Daytime sleepiness Inability to think, remember and process information Relationship stress Low-quality life More chance to have an accident Not to mention that
Joint Health: Move it or Lose It As a chiropractor, I commonly see people with complaints of neck and back pain. Usually I’ll take a set of x-rays to assess what their spine looks like, and sadly, I often have to tell them that they have some degree of spinal degeneration. Spinal degeneration presents as
Concussions discussion has becoming increasingly common, especially with the discussion about football, particularly among school-age athletes. It has been estimated that there are up to 3.8 million sports-related concussions in the United States each year. Concussions are a problem. By definition, a concussion is trauma to the brain. A concussion injury literally jolts the brain,
Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVAs) are a common cause of spine injuries. You will often hear specific phrases such as whiplash, herniated discs, and vertebral fractures in relation to neck, midback, and low back pain. But what do these mean? Whiplash Whiplash is a general term associated with the motion of the neck during a car
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