Symptomatic Classification of Whiplash Injury and the Implications for Treatment
Chiro.Org Blog: Gargan and Bannister are renowned orthopedic trauma researchers from the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital in Bristol, Oxford, England. In 1994, they published a...
View ArticleA Systematic Review of Chiropractic Management of Adults with Whiplash...
Chiro.Org Blog: There is a baseline of evidence that suggests chiropractic care improves the cervical range of motion (cROM) and pain in the management of WAD. However, the level of this evidence...
View ArticleComparison of Outcomes in Neck Pain Patients With and Without Dizziness
Chiro.Org Blog: Neck pain patients with dizziness reported significantly higher pain and disability scores at baseline compared to patients without dizziness. A high proportion of patients in both...
View ArticleCentral Hypersensitivity In Chronic PainAfter Whiplash Injury
Chiro.Org Blog: The authors found a hypersensitivity to peripheral stimulation in whiplash patients. Hypersensitivity was observed after cutaneous and muscular stimulation, at both neck and lower limb....
View ArticleSleep Characteristics in Patients with Whiplash-Associated Disorders: A...
Chiro.Org Blog: Neck pain related to whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) constitutes a significant health issue that leads patients to seek medical care in chiropractic and other physical therapy,...
View ArticleWhiplash & Chiropractic
Chiro.Org Blog: Whiplash is an enigmatic injury. We spend billions of dollars each year to treat it. Yet many lawyers, legislators, and medical doctors deny its existence. It affects millions of people...
View ArticleFunction in Patients With Cervical Radiculopathy or Chronic...
Chiro.Org Blog: Patient groups exhibited significantly lower performance than the healthy group in all physical measures (P .09). There was a general trend toward worse results in the CR group than the...
View ArticlePatients’ Experiences With Vehicle Collision to Inform the Development of...
Chiro.Org Blog: The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the experiences of persons who were injured in traffic collisions and seek their recommendations for the development of clinical...
View ArticleManagement of Neck Pain and Associated Disorders
Chiro.Org Blog: This guideline is based on recent systematic reviews of high-quality studies. A multidisciplinary expert panel considered the evidence of effectiveness, safety, cost-effectiveness,...
View ArticleVertical Posture and Head Stability in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
Chiro.Org Blog: Patients with chronic neck pain, in particular those with whiplash-associated disorders, showed larger sway areas and reduced ability to successfully execute more challenging balance...
View ArticleComparing 2 Whiplash Grading Systems To Predict Clinical Outcomes
Chiro.Org Blog: In 1993, a formal whiplash grading system was introduced by Croft, [5, 6] and in 1995, a modified version was published by the Quebec Task Force on Whiplash-Associated Disorders...
View ArticleA Population-based, Incidence Cohort Study of Mid-back Pain After Traffic...
Chiro.Org Blog: Mid-back pain after traffic collisions is common, especially in women and in young individuals. A substantial proportion of participants in this cohort experienced a delayed recovery....
View ArticleMild Traumatic Brain Injury After Motor Vehicle Collisions: What Are the...
Chiro.Org Blog: A total of 1716 adults suffered MTBI after a motor vehicle collision over the 2-year inception period. Six weeks after the collision, 75% reported having more than 3 symptoms and 30%...
View ArticleLow Speed Frontal Crashes and Low Speed Rear Crashes
Chiro.Org Blog: Analysis of data revealed that the rear impact vector crash resulted in 2.8 times greater head linear acceleration than frontal crashes. Rear impact crashes resulted in biphasic,...
View ArticleWho Gets Depressed? Who Stays Depressed?
Chiro.Org Blog: In a prior study we reported that post crash depression is common following crash related WAD. As a follow-up to that, we now report the characteristics that can assist clinicians to...
View ArticleExposure to a Motor Vehicle Collision and the Risk
Chiro.Org Blog: Eight articles were identified of which seven were of lower risk of bias. Six studies reported a positive association between a neck injury in an MVC and future NP compared to those...
View ArticleProgressive Degeneration of the Cervical Multifidus
Chiro.Org Blog: These findings may have implications for whiplash where the early assessment and management of modifiable factors (e.g. symptoms of PTSD, pain intensity, muscle degeneration...
View ArticleThe Course of Serum Inflammatory Biomarkers
Chiro.Org Blog: In summary, the results demonstrate initially higher levels of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) following whiplash injury that persist in those with persistent moderate/severe pain and...
View ArticleDiagnostic Accuracy of Videofluoroscopy
Chiro.Org Blog: The videofluoroscopic (or DMX) examination of the cervical spine is a highly accurate test for identifying patients with symptomatic ligamentous instability after whiplash trauma. The...
View ArticleRevisiting Risk-stratified Whiplash-exposed Patients 12 to 14 Years After Injury
Chiro.Org Blog: Internal and long-term validation of DWGRAS was performed, but a low response rate indicates that results should be interpreted with caution. Furthermore, external validation needs to...
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