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Car Accidents Have a High Risk of Causing Neck and Back Injury Car accidents, and the force that goes along with them, can be seriously damaging to the neck and back. These areas of the body are both crucial to bodily function, yet sensitive to sudden movement and force 
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TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedinPrintEmailSpine pain often occurs after a collision or slip and fall accidents. Clients present to my Clearwater office in varying levels of pain after such accidents occur. Sometimes the pain gets better over time and other times it progresses t
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Sometimes, an MRI doesn’t reveal the source of injury or pain. Occasionally, pain can be excruciating and the path to diagnosis or therapeutic relief can seem never ending. Below are two considerations for the identification and treatment of neck and back pain as well as numbness and tingling in the arms and/or legs: (click on this article to learn more)
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Manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) is a medical procedure wherein the patient is placed under light or general anesthesia while the treating physician pulls and stretches the patient’s muscles and ligaments.
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Manipulation under anesthesia is performed by an anesthesiologist and a Certified chiropractor or manual therapist. While this may sound encouraging, prospective patients must keep in mind that the certification process involves merely 36 hours of training in the MUA procedure, emergency treatments, pharmacology, hospital procedures, and other related treatments. Once the physician completes the simple 36 hour requirement, he/she is only required to perform 5 supervised procedures before the chiropractor becomes certified in MUA procedures. This minimal training requirement does not inspire a lot of confident in the “certification” procedure. In light of the risks associated with the procedure and the minimal level of additional training required to receive certification to perform MUAs, the therapy has recently come under scrutiny by other medical professionals and insurance companies alike. Many doctors and insurance companies call the procedure “experimental and investigational” for the treatment of back and neck pain, citing a lack of research showing that the procedure actually helps these patients. In Aetna’s explanation of benefits, the company states, “Critical issues such as selection criteria, outcome assessments, and long-term benefits need to be addressed by well-designed studies before this procedure can be ordered as an essential part of conservative therapy.” (click on the article above to learn more)
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Common misnomers and misconceptions peddled by Laser Spine Surgeons in their efforts to procure business. In a 2009 article published by H.
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Common misnomers and misconceptions peddled by Laser Spine Surgeons in their efforts to procure business.
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Car accidents, and the force that goes along with them, can be seriously damaging to the neck and back. These areas of the body are both crucial to bodily
Matthew A. Dolman's insight:
Car accidents, and the force that goes along with them, can be seriously damaging to the neck and back. These areas of the body are both crucial to bodily function, yet sensitive to sudden movement and force. As a car slams into something, or something slams into a car, the inertia of the opposing force causes everything in the car, including a human, to move in that direction. But there’s only so much room to move in a car; eventually the seat belt, car door, dashboard, or some other object is going to stop that forward momentum. This force often generates enormous pressure on the neck and back. (click on this article to learn more)
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TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedinPrintEmail When you think of serious injuries following a car accident, you likely think of spinal injuries that lead to paralysis or severe internal organ damage. However, even if an injury does not immediately seem to be severe, th
Matthew A. Dolman's insight:
When you think of serious injuries following a car accident, you likely think of spinal injuries that lead to paralysis or severe internal organ damage. However, even if an injury does not immediately seem to be severe, the symptoms can be long-lasting and can have a serious effect on many aspects of your life. Damage to parts of your neck and back are examples of car accident injuries that can be surprisingly serious and costly. The following is some additional information regarding neck and back injuries from traffic collisions.
https://www.dolmanlaw.com/legal-services/auto-accidents-attorneys/
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To the millions of Americans that suffer from neck and back pain, Laser Spine Surgery may seem too good to be true. Laser Spine Surgery is big business for the innumerable medical providers that perform the procedure.
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There exists no long-term clinical study in the vast world of science and medicine that even remotely suggests the procedure is either safe or effective. It’s marketing and such claims are at best ignorantly misleading, and at worst a lie designed and perpetuated from sheer avarice. Laser spinal surgery could be any manner of spinal surgery: a laminectomy, a discectomy, or even a spinal fusion. Laser spine surgery is drastically different from traditional spine surgery, but that difference is nonetheless isolated to the instrument used to perform the surgery. The goal and manner of the surgeries are otherwise the same. A laser, which is a focused beam of light, is used to make an incision so that the surgery can have access to the spine. Laser incisions are much smaller than the incisions made by scalpels in traditional spine surgery. Also, in laser spine surgery, the laser is used to cut away or reshape disks, thereby alleviating pressure and decreasing the resulting pain. (click on the article to learn more)
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Car Accidents Have a High Risk of Causing Neck and Back Injury
Car accidents, and the force that goes along with them, can be seriously damaging to the neck and back. These areas of the body are both crucial to bodily function, yet sensitive to sudden movement and force. As a car slams into something, or something slams into a car, the inertia of the opposing force causes everything in the car, including a human, to move in that direction. But there’s only so much room to move in a car; eventually the seat belt, car door, dashboard, or some other object is going to stop that forward momentum. This force often generates enormous pressure on the neck and back.
This jerking motion is often referred to as whiplash, and can cause a number of different injuries to the spine. Quite simply, the spine was not designed to handle the forces that modern machines are capable of exerting on these sensitive structures.
Neck and lower back injuries can be both debilitating and extremely painful. Two of the most common pain generating injuries in the spine are disc injuries and facet joint injuries. This article focuses on these two areas because of their commonality. If you’re suffering back pain, it is important to know the difference between these two causes.
First, let’s take a look at discogenic injuries:
(click on this article to learn more)