The Question Doctors Can’t Answer Regarding Spinal Ligament Injuries?

by Jeffrey A. Cronk, DC JD | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles, Back and Neck Injury, Back Injuries, Injury Market, Jeffrey Cronk, Marketing, Medical Radiologists, Podcast, Smart Injury Lawyer, Spinal Injury, Spinal Ligament

The Question Doctors Can’t Answer Regarding Spinal Ligament Injuries?

Spinal ligament injuries are the number one cause of pain and disability in the world today. Patients can become involved in many different kinds of mechanisms capable of causing a spinal ligament injury, such as work related injuries, car collisions, sports collisions, slip and fall, domestic violence, war, to name a few. The video below takes one mechanism (Whiplash from Car Collisions) and shows the dismal statistics that result from patients being treated for these injuries. These unfortunately are the statistics of our doctors today. Why would these statistics be so bad when we are supposed to have the worlds best healthcare system? Perhaps the answer to this question is so simple that it has been overlooked. What is perhaps the most important question that most doctors that treat these spinal ligament injuries cannot answer? The answer when I share it will make it self evident why we today have such poor patient outcomes from such a simple injury. The most important question that the majority of doctors that treat these spinal injury patients simply cannot answer is: “where exactly is the spinal ligament injury and how bad is it”? If a doctor does not know the exact location and severity of a injury, how in the world can we expect the patient to have a optimal outcome with their treatment? This then becomes a very important question that any treating provider had ought to be able to answer right away! It is not enough today to simply say that the patient has injured their neck (#4 Cause of Disability Worldwide) or their lower back (#1 Cause of Disability Worldwide), or to simply say that they have sprained these areas. This tells us nothing as it is not specific enough. Todays doctors need to be able to tell us what spinal motion units are involved, and how bad is it? Today there are specialized radiologists that can help doctors to determine the severity and location of these spinal ligament injuries through the use of Computerized Radiographic Mensuration Analysis. I recently wrote an article on it called: Today’s Radiologists Can Help Doctors Accurately Determine the Severity of Spinal Ligament Injuries. Today no doctor should be treating these conditions without this type of information, as it puts the patient at risk for less than optimal recoveries and I believe it can put the doctor at risk for malpractice if the patient experiences an adverse response to their treatment. This is precisely why I developed a online education program that any doctor can take in order to become more competent with these kinds of injuries. This educational program can be found at www.smartinjuryeducation.com Patients deserve the best and that’s what we as their doctors need to bring to them.

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Today’s Radiologists Can Help Doctors Accurately Diagnose Spinal Ligament Injuries

by Jeffrey A. Cronk, DC JD | Feb 25, 2019 | Articles, Back and Neck Injury, Back Injuries, Injury Market, Jeffrey Cronk, Marketing, Medical Radiologists, Podcast, Smart Injury Lawyer, Spinal Injury, Spinal Ligament

Today’s Radiologists Can Help Doctors Accurately Diagnose Spinal Ligament Injuries

Spinal ligament injuries are the number one cause of pain and disability in both the US and the World today. In the past doctors have absolutely struggled to determine the severity and location of these injuries. This fact alone has probably been the biggest reason why this relatively simple injury has caused so much trouble for so many people.

Patients have been walking into their Chiropractor, Osteopath or Medical Specialist with spinal ligament injuries from car accidents, slip and falls, work related incidents, sports related incidents and all manor of other incidents that can cause the spinal ligaments to over stretch and tear. These same patients for far too long now have had these doctors construct a treatment program without knowing the severity and location of the actual ligament injury of the spine. The result of which all too often is a patient that treats for months on end, sometimes years on end and comes out of that process with a chronic problem that does not seem to have any solution. These patients have often been manipulated, massaged, exercised, worked out, drugged, had their nerves burned, and still the condition does not fully resolve.

When conditions do not resolve the cause has not been fully understood. Jeffrey A. Cronk DC, JD

Not an ideal result and is perhaps the biggest reason why over 100 Million people in the US suffer from sort of chronic pain—with neck and back pain being the most common.

Today this no longer needs to happen, and today any doctor can get assistance in determining the location and severity of these injuries with the help of specialized radiologists utilizing sophisticated technology that can allow them to accurately measure “joint laxity” of the individual spinal motion units. Obviously the more laxity the joint has the more damaged the restraints (ligaments) are that are designed to keep it in alignment. Todays modern specialist can now take the inter-segmental motion report, understand where the problem is and set up a much more targeted treatment program to stabilize the now known area of instability. This of course will lead to better results with less care in many cases.

Now doctors can understand exactly where these spinal injuries and their treatment programs can be much more targeted and effective as a result.

For more information on the this national radiology service, doctors can go to www.spinal-kinetics.com For more information on how to become more of your areas spinal ligament injury specialist, providers can go to www.smartinjuryeducation.com