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Personal Injury with Dan Murphy - Naturopathic Doctor

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Whiplash and Spinal Trauma

Credit Hours(s)8.0

InstructorsDan Murphy, DC, DABCO

Price$240.00 USD

Format(s)AudioVisual Course

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Educational Objectives

Emphasize the unique anatomy of the cervical spine as related to spinal trauma.
Point put the importance of the uncinate process joints as related do disc herniation, the nerve root, the vertebral artery, and the spinal cord.
Explain how cervical spine injury may manifest clinically as low back and leg pain.
Explain the role for sleep and sleep’s influence on the ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
Summarize the influence of sleep on brain neurochemistry.
Explain the influence of awareness on an impending collision and the muscles ability to protect joints.
Explain how being “caught by surprise” by a collision is related to a poor prognosis for full recovery.
Summarize the history of whiplash injuries, including mechanical mechanisms, biological mechanisms, pathology, diagnostics and management.
Define the issues that the early whiplash literature got wrong.
Emphasize the issues that early whiplash literature got correct.
Summarize recent advances in the understanding of whiplash injuries, emphasizing anatomy, diagnostics, pain production and pain suppression.
Integrate whiplash trauma, chronic pain, and chiropractic care.
Point out the mathematics of how a low speed vehicle to vehicle collision can result in passenger injury.
Explain why vehicle damage should not be used as a proxy for passenger injury.
Integrate the concepts of awareness, rotation, and pre-accident spondylosis in injury magnitude and prognosis.
Define the three phases of soft tissue healing and point out the time sequence for each phase.
Justify the clinical interventions that have a positive therapeutic influence on each phase of soft tissue injury healing.
Emphasize the concept of motion in the healing of injured soft tissues, especially spinal adjusting (specific manipulation) motion.
Quantify acute injury and ultimate recovery(prognosis) by using measurement outcomes.
Summarize the biology and published data on treatment frequency and duration for whiplash spinal trauma.
Point out published studies relating to recovery and prognosis.
Reference the incidence of acceleration of spondylosis in long-term studies following a whiplash injury.

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MEMaine
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NHNew Hampshire
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