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Understanding Whiplash: Unraveling the Impact of Auto Accidents Part 2 (Murphy, Jul 13-14, 2024 on-campus)
Summary
It is often assumed that whiplash-mechanism injury only affects the cervical spine. Yet, many patients will also experience inertial injuries to their brain and/or compression injuries to their low back.
Consequently, understanding the clinical presentation for both traumatic brain injury and low back injury from motor vehicle collisions is important. As a consequence, examination, imaging, treatment, and prognostic factors should be discussed.
Also, whiplash-injury studies define prognostic factors, such as central canal stenosis and cross-sectional tissue diameters. The chiropractic clinician should be aware of these influences, how to examine for them, and how to modify treatment as a consequence of their presence.
The chiropractor should not only be familiar with these concepts, but should be able to effectively communicate them in reports and testimony of as to do so.
Objectives
• Understanding how the low back can be injured in a motor vehicle collision.
• Understand how the brain is injured in a motor vehicle collision, including when the head has suffered no direct impact.
• Understand the influence of pre-injury central canal stenosis of whiplash injury.
• Understand the influence of pre-injury central canal stenosis of whiplash injury.
For each of these, the attending chiropractor should understand presentation features, examination findings, imaging findings, and treatment options for the patient.
SCHEDULE
July 13, 2024 12:00pm - 8:00pm
July 14, 2024 8:00am - 12:00pm
8 general, 4 ethics CE hours
LIVE-STREAM OPTION
Understanding Whiplash: Unraveling the Impact of Auto Accidents Part 2 (live-streamed)
Hour#1: Low Back and Leg Pain Following Whiplash Injury
Point out the probable mechanisms for direct injury to the lower back during motor vehicle collisions.
Distinguish between radiculopathy, neuropathy, and sclerogenic referral of extremity pain.
Hour#2: Central Canal Stenosis
Define the parameters for cervical and lumber spine central canal stenosis.
Utilize both the Torg/Pavlov and the ratio radiographic methods for assessing cervical spine central canal stenosis.
Explain the critical relationship between central canal stenosis and hyperextension spinal injuries.
Demonstrate a practical method for the clinical assessment of cervical spine central canal stenosis.
Hour#3: Whiplash Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury
Explain the differences between a blow brain injury and an inertial brain injury.
Define the pathoanatomic and patho-biochemistry of traumatic brain injury.
Justify clinical interventions that have a positive therapeutic influence on traumatic brain injury.
Hour#4: Cervical Disc Herniation
Point out the anatomical differences between lumbar and cervical discs.
Explore the pathoanatomical and therapeutic differences between lumbar and cervical discs lesions.
Hour#5: Examinations and Evaluations
Explain the minimum examinations that should be performed.
Explain the minimum requirements for charting the daily patient contact.
Hour#6: Women v. Men in Collisions
Learn the concept of cross-sectional soft tissue diameter of injury and traumatic injury.
Learn the concept of head circumference relative to neck circumference in traumatic injury.
Hour#7: Reports
Make recommendations for re-evaluations.
Make recommendations for interim reports contents.
Explore common academic terminology and concepts in effective report writing.
Hour#8: Testimony
Distinguish between a percipient witness and an expert witness.
Explain what a subpoena is and what it means to the treating chiropractor.
Explain what a deposition is for the treating chiropractor. Summarize the basic rules of a treating expert deposition.
Summarize the mechanics of a personal injury trial from the perspective of the treating chiropractor.
Hour#9: Testimony Applications
Demonstrate a typical soft tissue direct examination.
Show the two most common drawings to support chiropractic care for soft tissue injuries.
Hour#10: Management of Difficult Cases
Discuss the concept of how the systemic inflammatory profile affects local injury.
List 8 systemic inflammatory factors that should be considered and co-managed on whiplash-injured patients
TWO HOURS ETHICS-LAW
Hour 1:
Discuss the concepts of standard of care and causation as related to chiropractic clinical practice.
Hour 2:
Review the State of California publications pertaining to:
• Medical Negligence/Malpractice
• Standard of Care for Health Care Professionals
• Success Not Required
• Duty to Refer to a Specialist
• Abandonment of Patient
• Informed Consent
Park by Student Entrance on Clawiter Road side of building, then look for signage directing you to the check-in area.
See Campus Map for details.
 | DAN MURPHY, DC, DABCO Dr. Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, and has more than 36 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dr. Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders. |
Life Chiropractic College West has received programmatic accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education and institutional/regional accreditation through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).
See below for a list of credits that may be available for this seminar.
*The following State and Province boards do not require an application when a program is sponsored by a college accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE): CO, CT, DE, DC, ID, IL, IA, MD, MA, MI, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, UT, VT, VA, WA, WY, BC, NB, ON, QC. Life Chiropractic College West cannot guarantee that these licensing board(s) will accept any session of this offering. Life West urges licensees to familiarize themselves with the laws governing continuing education in the jurisdictions where they hold licensure.
Available Credit Hours
- 12.00 AK Chiropractic BoardAlaska Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 AZ Chiropractic BoardArizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 8.00 CA Chiro Board, Category BCA Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Cat B
- 2.00 CA Chiropractic Board, Category A EthicsCalifornia Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Category A Ethics
- 2.00 CA Chiropractic Board, Category A Exam/Adjust/BillingCalifornia Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Category A Exam/Adjust/Billing
- 12.00 CO Chiropractic BoardColorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 CT Chiropractic BoardConnecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiner
- 12.00 DC Chiropractic BoardDistrict of Columbia Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 DE Chiropractic BoardDelaware Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 HI Chiropractic BoardHawaii Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 IA Chiropractic BoardIowa Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 ID Chiropractic BoardIdaho Board of Chiropractic Physicians
- 12.00 IL Chiropractic BoardIllinois Medical Licensing Board
- 12.00 IN Chiropractic BoardIndiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 KS Chiropractic AssocKansas Chiropractic Association
- 12.00 MA Chiropractic BoardMassachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors
- 12.00 MD Chiropractic BoardMaryland Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ME Chiropractic BoardMaine Board of Chiropractic Licensure
- 12.00 MN Chiropractic BoardMinnesota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MO Chiropractic BoardMissouri Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MS Chiropractic BoardMississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MT Chiropractic BoardMontana Board of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NC Chiropractic BoardNorth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ND Chiropractic BoardNorth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NE Chiropractic BoardNebraska Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 NH Chiropractic BoardNew Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NJ Chiropractic BoardNew Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NS Chiropractic CollegeNova Scotia College of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NV Chiropractic BoardNevada Chiropractic Physicians' Board
- 12.00 OH Chiropractic BoardOhio Chiropractic Board
- 12.00 OR Chiropractic BoardOregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 PACEFCLB Providers of Approved Continuing Education
- 12.00 PR Chiropractic BoardPuerto Rico Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 RI Chiropractic BoardRhode Island Board of Examiners in Chiropractic
- 12.00 SC Chiropractic BoardSouth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 SD Chiropractic BoardSouth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 TN Chiropractic BoardTennessee Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 UT Chiropractic BoardUtah Chiropractic Physicians Licensing Board
- 12.00 VA Board of MedicineVirginia Board of Medicine
- 12.00 VI Chiropractic BoardU.S. Virgin Islands Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 VT Chiropractic BoardVermont Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 WA Chiropractic CommWashington Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission
- 12.00 WY Chiropractic BoardWyoming Board of Chiropractic Examiners
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