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Whiplash and its treatment.
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Determination of a Whiplash Injury Severity Estimator (WISE Index) for Occupants in a Motor Vehicle Accident
The diagnosis of a whiplash injury is a very subjective process. A claim of this type of injury is usually made on the basis of pain, which may or may not be accompanied by clinical signs of trauma. This study was aimed at providing a more objective, quantitative approach to identifying the …
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Non-invasive measurement of trigeminal nerve somatosensory evoked potentials
Whiplash injuries are common yet enigmatic to substantiate clinically. Trigeminal somatosensory evoked potentials (TSEPs) were posited as an indicator of trigeminal nerve conduction damage resulting from whiplash. Alternating polarity square-wave current stimuli were applied transcutaneously in the …
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Κακώσεις κατώτερης αυχενικής σπονδυλικής στήλης : κλινική πορεία των ασθενών - αλγόριθμοι – νευρολογικές κλίμακες – κλίμακες κατάθλιψης - κλίμακες ποιότητας ζωής και προσωπικότητας
… ίλιγγος συνοδεύει περιστασιακά μία κάκωση τύπου «whiplash». Η πιστοποίηση του συνδρόμου είναι ιδιαίτερης αξίας, αν αναλογιστούμε τις πολλές προσφυγές στα δικαστήρια και τις υψηλές δαπάνες που προκύπτουν μετά από τέτοιου τύπου κάκωση. Δώδεκα ασθενείς, που αναφέρθηκαν στα εξωτερικά ιατρεία της …
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A retrospective study in understanding 'low speed change' vehicle collisions, occupant movement and likelihood of injury
… of the claims presented to the Courts were for ‘whiplash’ injuries. Whilst whiplash is in fact a mechanism for injury and it is acknowledged that the term almost exclusively relates to soft tissue injury. The United Kingdom is referred to as the whiplash capital of Europe, with 75% of personal …
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Superficial cervical muscle activation in chronic neck pain
… a proportion of individuals who have suffered a whiplash injury and also in individuals that have not experienced a trauma to the neck. The mechanisms that cause chronic pain are unclear, and whether they differ in traumatic or non-traumatic onset is unknown.<br/><br/>A review of the background …
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Development of Biodynamic Modules for Forensic Applications
… modules have been developed which explore the whiplash injury mechanism, pilot ejection and windblast, and gait analysis. These case studies make use of software entitled MADYMO (MAthematical DYnamic MOdeling). Each case study provides the scene, outcome, details, and instructions for setup of …
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Investigation of head repositioning accuracy as a measure of cervicocephalic kinaesthetic sensibility in patients with chronic neck pain
… patient subgroups (e.g., insidious onset vs ‘whiplash’); 2) development of more sophisticated methods of measuring head movement and repositioning errors; 3) establishing the characteristics of the tests such as method agreement and reliability; 4) comparison of the discriminative value of …
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Measurement of accelerations experienced by rough stock riders
… during a rough stock event may be the result of whiplash effects or impact with the animal. Although there are a few recent studies investigating the incidence of head injury in rodeo events, little is known about the acceleration profile experienced by the riders.\r\n\r\nMethods: This study was …
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Assessment and treatment of dizzy patients in primary health care.
… In paper III, patients with dizziness caused by whiplash associated disorder were randomized to intervention group or control group. At follow-up after six weeks and three months, the intervention group had improved in both balance measures and self-perceived handicap. In paper IV, patients with …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… a breast cancer awareness that is saturated with whiplash and back-pedaling narratives and characterizations that establish a mixed message discourse comprised of contradictory conceptions of breast cancer detection, breast cancer prevention, breast cancer activism, and breast cancer as a disease. …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… a breast cancer awareness that is saturated with whiplash and back-pedaling narratives and characterizations that establish a mixed message discourse comprised of contradictory conceptions of breast cancer detection, breast cancer prevention, breast cancer activism, and breast cancer as a disease. …
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Back and neck pain: Patterns in healthcare consultations
… diagnoses in particular. People diagnosed with whiplash associated neck injury had higher healthcare consultation rates already three years before the neck injury and the postinjury consultation level was associated with the preinjury consultation levels. Low socioeconomic status was associated …
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Creation of a Virtual Interface for Stress-Trauma Investigations through Open World Navigation: An Exploration of Tolerability and Physiological Reactions
… that as many as 50% of people suffering from Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD) may experience chronic alterations of their activities of daily living as much as 1-year post injury. Despite their burden, there is little to evidence to suggest why some people may be more likely to acquire WAD …
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The Effects of Wearing Headscarves on Cervical Spine Proprioception and Range of Motion
… have been reported in subjects with whiplash-associated disorder as well as subjects having neck pain. Objectives: 1) To determine the effects of wearing the headscarf on cervical spine ROM and joint position error (JPE), 2) To analyze the influence of age at onset of wearing the …
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Creation and Validation of a Dynamic, EMG-Driven Cervical Spine Model
… all of them were made to study impact loading (whiplash), which makes them unsuitable for studying activities of daily living. A personalized, dynamic, EMG-driven model is very important, because everybody activates their muscles differently, and that different activation will cause different …
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Anti-Rotation Load Leg Effects on Crash Injury Metrics Under Child Restraint System Misuse
… of severe or fatal head and neck injuries (e.g., whiplash, traumatic brain, spinal, neck, chest contusions, other internal organs). Although anti-rotational devices, such as load legs, have shown potential in mitigating injury metrics, their efficacy for rear-facing infant CRS misuse conditions …
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Zu cervicalen Distorsionsverletzungen und deren Auswirkungen auf posturale Schwankungsmuster
Einleitung & Problemstellung: Beschwerden nach Beschleunigungsverletzungen der Halswirbelsäule sind oft nur unzureichend einzuordnen und diagnostizierbar. Eine eindeutige Diagnostik ist jedoch für eine entsprechende Therapie wie auch möglicherweise entstehende versicherungsrechtliche Forderungen …
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An investigation into the patient management protocols of selected cervical spine conditions by chiropractors in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology in partial compliance with the requirements for a Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.