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| Thoracic Outlet and the Personal Injury |
| Author: E. Paul Giersch |
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| Personal injury attorneys are often in a unique position to view the totality of the injured person’s condition, and to synthesize the diagnostic conclusions of a number of health care providers. This is especially true for clients who are suffering from symptoms of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. |
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| Cervical Soft Tissue Injuries; A 15 Year Follow-Up |
| Author: Richard H. Adler |
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| A study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in November 1996, involved a follow up of patients involved in separate motor vehicle accidents approximately 15 years earlier (1). The authors wanted to know whether patients, 15 years after cervical injury, had improved or worsened symptoms, and whether psychological variables played a role in the patient's condition. |
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| TMJ Injuries |
| Author: Richard H. Adler |
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| Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) symptoms are a common finding in motor vehicle accident patients with hyperextension/hyperflexion injuries to the cervical spine. TMJ injury resulting from direct trauma to the mandible is a well-established phenomenon.(1) Literature also establishes a relationship between TMJ symptoms and hyperextension/hyperflexion injury to the cervical spine without direct trauma to the mandible. |
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| Organic Basis for Pain Associated With Trauma |
| Author: Richard H. Adler |
| 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 injuries not visible on standard radiography. |
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| Long Term Prognosis of Neck Injuries |
| Author: Richard H. Adler |
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| When a patient who has suffered soft tissue neck injury in an automobile accident is involved in resulting legal action, the treating physician will at some point be asked to give an opinion regarding prognosis. A determination of damages for reasonable and necessary future care, as well as for future pain, suffering, and disability, often turns on the doctor's understanding of factors influencing prognosis. Chronic residual symptoms may be encountered with or without objective findings. |
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| Low Speed Impact and Occupant Injury |
| Author: Richard H. Adler |
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| More and more scientific studies are demonstrating that while low speed vehicle collisions may result in minor property damage, they can cause major injury. |
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