Posted by rozeklawoffice on March 9, 2010 under Spinal Cord Injury | 
Each year, over 12,000 people in the United States sustain spinal cord injuries . In general, a spinal cord injury is trauma a trauma to the spinal cord that results in some loss of function. There are 3 general types of spinal cord injuries including paraplegia, quadriplegia, and paralysis. Currently, there are many advances and research that is occurring in the treatment and management of spinal cord injury.
Neurotechnology, the use of medical electronics to interact with the human nervous system, has made rapid advancements in recent history. Although severe spinal cord injuries can result in paralysis, the muscle can contract when it is stimulated. For those with mobility impairments that do not have peripheral nerve damage, electrical stimulation can be utilized. A few advances that are currently available include the following:
1. Breathing and Cough Assistance
2. Hand Grasp and Rehabilitation of the Upper Extremities
3. Pain and Spasticity Management
4. Pressure Sore Prevention and Wound Therapy
5. Assisted Standing and Ambulation Systems
6. Exercise and rehabilitation Systems
For more information on these types of treatment see The National Spinal Cord Injury Association’s Website Fact Sheets.
The majority of spinal cord injuries are due to car accidents, bicycle accidents, truck accidents and pedestrian accidents. If you or a loved one has suffered a spinal cord injury due to an accident, please contact an experienced Spinal Cord Injury Attorney. An experienced attorney can help you receive fair compensation for your injuries, current medical bills, needed rehabilitation, and loss of wages.
Anyone living with spinal cord injury as a result of a negligent act of another can participate in on-line discussions at a new website dedicated to advocacy on issues that affect people with spinal cord injury and disorders. The site, www.spinalcordadvocates.org, is a product of the unique collaboration between the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA) and United Spinal Association, two of the nation’s leading nonprofit membership organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injuries and disorders.
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Posted by rozeklawoffice on January 21, 2010 under Back Injury, General, Personal Injury Cases, Spinal Cord Injury, Whiplash Neck Injury |
I recently heard the unfortunate story of a lady who was trying to fire her lawyer. He had her case for over two years and had done nothing with it. She was completely disabled as a result of the accident but even that didn’t get the lawyer motivated to move forward with her case.
Then I learned of how she met her lawyer. Shortly after her car accident, she received a call from a chiropractor offering her a “Free Initial Examination.” She was in pain and it sounded too good to be true, so she went in for a visit.
She agreed to go in for her free appointment. The chiropractor seemed nice enough. Then, in the middle of the first treatment session, the chiropractor asked her if she had a lawyer yet. When she answered “no,” the chiropractor insisted that she meet his friend, the lawyer, who just happened to be in the neighborhood and would be stopping by as soon as her session ended.
Apparently, the chiropractor and the lawyer had a secret agreement and since the lawyer couldn’t call the lady directly without risking being disbarred, he had the chiropractor do his soliciting for him.
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Posted by rozeklawoffice on January 15, 2010 under Back Injury, General, Post-Traumatic Headache, RSD | CRPS, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Vestibular Disorder, Whiplash Neck Injury |
Another great mobile tool I have come across that can help injury victims track their chronic pain to better communicate with their doctors.
The description below is written by the publisher Chronic Stimulation, LLC :
Chronic Pain is one of the most pervasive and most costly diseases in the World. Millions of people suffer with chronic pain and its insidious symptoms. For sufferers, it is critical to their medical care that they can effectively communicate the nature of their pain to their doctors. This is a difficult challenge since pain is one of the most subjective and personal experiences humans face.
Chronic Pain Tracker has been designed to improve the Patient-to-Doctor exchange of pain information. Using Pain Tracker, the patient can monitor three key pain metrics: pain intensity, location, and description. Sufferers of Chronic Pain know that each of these metrics can change day to day, or even hour to hour. This can make diagnosis and treatment of pain symptoms more challenging since patients most commonly describe their pain based on their most recent experience rather than using an evaluative process to statistically describe the typical pain symptoms being experienced.
Capturing Pain Data
With Chronic Pain Tracker, the user regularly makes a Pain Entry in the application. Depending on their needs/preferences, this may be once a day, or once every few hours. The entry process is designed to be intuitive and quick, while still capturing the necessary details about their pain. The following data points are captured for each entry:
Timestamp – this date/time marker is automatically generated by the application with no user interaction required.
Pain Level – using the familiar visual pain scale, the user selects their current pain level from 0 to 10
Pain Location – simply tapping on the body sections defines where the pain is being felt
Pain Descriptions – the user can select one or more adjectives in the table that best define the pain they are feeling
General Comments – the user has the option to provide any other details/information desired for the entry
Chronic Pain Tracker Lite is capable of tracking a maximum of 10 pain entries. This would, for example, provide 1.5 weeks worth of daily entries. Download the full Chronic Pain Tracker version for unlimited database entries.
Pain Analysis & Summary
With Pain Tracker, a user can automatically consolidate pain entries for a given time period and statistically analyze those entries. The application includes a series of pre-define reports such as “Last 7 days”, “Last 30 days”, etc. but also allows the user to define their own start and end dates for the analysis.
For more information on Chronic Pain Injuries.
Each year, over 12,000 people in the United States sustain spinal cord injuries . In general, a spinal cord injury is trauma a trauma to the spinal cord that results in some loss of function. There are 3 general types of spinal cord injuries including paraplegia, quadriplegia, and paralysis. Currently, there are many advances and research that is occurring in the treatment and management of spinal cord injury.
