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This comprehensive resource addresses the evaluation and management of the most common painful ailments and injuries encountered by patients after a motor vehicle accident, including whiplash injuries and low impact injuries. The unique approach of categorizing injuries enables the clinician to quickly diagnose the type of injury and develop a treatment plan. Special emphasis is placed on the controversial topic of how injuries (including musculoskeletal, neurological and closed head injuries) can occur in the face of a "low impact collision.
- Represents the rehabilitation team treating whiplash injuries
- Useful for participating as an expert witness in a litigation trial.
- Biomechanics of the low impact collision in conjunction with medical information is the most unique selling point.
- Describes how a closed head injury can occur with a low impact collision.
- Multi-disciplinary team of contributing authors.
- Wealth of research and biomechanical information in conjunction with the clinical information.
- Athletic-injury categorization enables clinician to proceed quickly up the ladder of differential diagnosis by ruling out (or in) diagnoses based on a familiarity with those typical of this sort of injury.
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Contenuti
Biomechanics of Low Impact Collisions; Pain; Gait Patterns; Diagnostic Workup; Upper Extremity Pain; Lower Extremity Pain; Spine Pain; Headaches; The Chronic Pain Patient; Neurogenic Pain; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome; Neuropsychological Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Whiplash-Induced Mild Traumatic Brain Injury; Exercises and rehabilitation; Opioid Analgesia; Spinal Cord Stimulation; Intrathecal Opioid Pump Implantation.
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