While advances in automobile design to reduce  injuries can also pose unique problems for the driver or passenger.  One of the most common product liabilities found in the automobile today is the 3-point seat belt restraint. The 3-point system has been instrumental in reducing fatalities, but can also contribute to injuries such as rib fracture, shoulder dislocation and spinal fracture.  Very little research has been published on these cases and the mechanism of injury.   Nourbakhsh, Patil, Vannemreddy and Smith (2009) reported their research in, “A Noncontiguous 2-Level Spinal Injury in a Young Female Driver Due to a 3-Point Seat Belt Restraint,” a paper published in a peer reviewed medically indexed scientific journal.   This paper’s focus was “to describe noncontiguous fracture and dislocations of the thoracolumbosacral spine in a 23-year-old female driver with a 3-point seat belt restraint” (Nourbakhsh et al., 2009,  p.

According to a research study by Yasuhiko Takeda in Tottori Japan there is a cause an effect relationship between spinal misalignments and allergic conditions such as atopic dermatitis (AD), bronchial asthma (BA), pollinosis, hay fever, allergic coryza.  As result of a treatment that involved spinal adjustment as treatment directed at improving spinal misalignment, misalignment and loss of curvature of 2,733 allergic disease patients who concurrently suffered from atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma, it was shown that the allergy symptoms, such as skin eczema, skin itches, and asthma attack improved along with the reduction of chronic vertebral misalignment (CVM) or chronic vertebral subluxation.

The back is a complicated structure of bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. You can sprain ligaments, strain muscles, rupture disks, and irritate joints, all of which can lead to back pain. While sports injuries or accidents can cause back pain, sometimes the simplest of movements—for example, picking up a pencil from the floor— can have painful results.

Maintain a healthy diet and weight. Remain active—under the supervision of your doctor of chiropractic. Avoid prolonged inactivity or bed rest.

Maintain a healthy diet and weight. Remain active—under the supervision of your doctor of chiropractic. Avoid prolonged inactivity or bed rest.

Whiplash is a puzzling injury and billions of dollars each year to treat it. Yet many lawyers, legislators, and medical doctors deny its existence. It affects millions of people around the world, yet research is severely under-funded

Whiplash is a puzzling injury and billions of dollars each year to treat it.

Whiplash is commonly the result of rear-end car accidents, sports injuries and accidents at work. Whiplash can result when the neck is quickly and forcibly moved forward then backward or from side to side. It is important to treat these soft tissue injuries early to avoid chronic pain, although sometimes symptoms don’t develop until long after the accident occurred.