Auto accidents- A time of healing - Late Effects of Car Wrecks

From Dr. John Raymond Baker,DC

Auto accidents are traumatic injuries, and people can sustain a wide range of injuries from contusions and scrapes, to death.

It is not unusual for patients to have their pain and injuries masked by the stress and activation of the sympathetic nervous system which happens after an accident, and there may be a release of both adrenaline and endogenous opiods (e.g. beta endorphin) that can , for a time, mask the level of pain the person is going to experience, and thus, to confuse the person about how badly they are injured.

The fact that people can have delayed symptoms from an auto accident is well known among both health care providers who see a lot of auto accident victims, and yes, by many insurance employees.

There are even codes describing "late effects" from vehicular accidents. Many of these are "e-codes". For more, see http://www.nber.org/mortality/1995/docs/ecodes.txt
"Categories for "late effects" of accidents and other external causes areto be found at E929, E959, E969, E977, E989, and E999.Definitions and examples related to transport accidents(a) A transport accident (E800-E848) is any accident involving a devicedesigned primarily for, or being used at the time primarily for, conveyingpersons or goods from one place to another.Includes: accidents involving: aircraft and spacecraft (E840-E848) watercraft (E830-E838) motor vehicle (E810-E825) railway (E800-E807) other road vehicles (E826-E829)"

It is not unusual for patients, as days go by, to find that there are areas on their body they didn't even know they injured immediately after the accident, begin hurting a lot, and on examination of the body area by visual inspection, they may often find large contusions.

It is important for patients to realize that they often are not fully aware of all their injuries / extent of all injuries, on the first, second, or even third day after an auto accident or car wreck.

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Texas Posts Workers' Comp Notice of Employee Rights, Responsibilities

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2006/06/22/69721.htm
June 22, 2006
Pursuant to House Bill 7 (79th Legislature), the public counsel for the Office of Injured Employee Counsel developed and submitted a notice of injured employee rights and responsibilities to the Texas Department of Insurance (Department) and the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers Compensation (Division). The Texas Labor Code §404.109 requires the notice to be adopted by the Commissioner of Workers' Compensation and Commissioner of Insurance and the distribution of the notice is to be provided by rule.
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The Notice of Injured Employee Rights and Responsibilities as submitted by the Public Counsel is now approved for use. The Division is now providing the new notice to injured employees. The new notice may be found on the Division's Web site at www.tdi.state.tx.us/wc/information/workerrights.html.
The new notice will replace the language contained in 28 TAC §120.2(e), Your Rights in the Texas Workers' Compensation System/Your Responsibilities in the Texas Workers' Compensation System. The rule will be amended in the near future to provide for the distribution of the new notice.
In order to minimize confusion while the rule is being developed, all system participants are asked to use the language of the new notice in all communications with injured employees. In addition, insurance carriers are asked to notify their workers' compensation policyholders of the new notice for communication with their employees.

Quick Intense Electromagnetic Field Stops Migraine

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=45735
"A hand-held electronic device, called TMS, delivers an electric current through a metal coil creating a sharp magnetic field that lasts only one millisecond. The magnetic field, say researchers, interrupts the migraine before it progresses on to the headache stage. Migraine sufferers often get a warning that an intense headache is on the way. They see shooting stars, cannot see properly and often have a feeling of disorientation. These neural disturbances are called ‘auras'. The TMS device has been shown to be effective in stopping the progression on the migraine if the patient is ‘zapped' at this ‘aura' stage. The researchers, from Ohio State University Medical Center, treated 23 migraine patients with the TMS device. 69% had either no headache or very mild headache two hours after being zapped, 42% of the TMS group classed their lack of symptoms as excellent or very good. 48% of the placebo group reported in the same way, with just 26% reporting their lack of symptoms as excellent or very good. Most of the TMS patients reported no noise sensitivity, more than 50% reported no light sensitivity, nausea symptoms fell 88%. Patients treated with a TMS look-a-like, a placebo, reported a 56% drop in nausea symptoms. The researchers say no side-effects were experienced by any of the patients. The researchers then went on to see whether patients could treat themselves - use the TMS device on their own. This second study, with twelve volunteers, concluded that the TMS device is suitable for self-administration. Patients can use it on their own as soon as migraine symptoms start. More studies with a larger group of volunteers are planned. To see whether the TMS could become a common therapy for migraines depends on the results of the larger studies. "

Might headaches help increase libido?

"http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/health/14875438.htm
Might headaches help increase libido?
By SUSAN BRINK
Los Angeles Times
Sex and headache are inextricably linked by the age-old excuse: Not tonight, dear. I have a headache.
But brain science is finding that it's more complicated than that. For many people, sex can turn a dull throbbing pain into a raging headache. For a few who jump into bed feeling fine, orgasm can trigger a sudden, explosive headache. And for a minority of people, headaches are cured by a roll in the hay.
Now a small pilot study exploring the link between migraines and libido suggests there might be a reward for headache pain. In the June edition of the journal Headache, researchers found that young adults with migraines reported higher levels of sexual desire.
Dr. Timothy Houle, professor of anesthesiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and lead author of the study, wanted to see if migraine sufferers thought about sex more than tension headache sufferers did.
Researchers looked at 68 college students, about half of whom were migraine sufferers; the other half suffered the more typical tension headaches. He gave the two groups of headache sufferers questionnaires, asking about their perceived level of sexual desire and probing into how much they think about having sex.
''Migraine sufferers reported higher levels of sexual desire by about 20 percent,'' Houle says.
What surprised him is that in an age group understood to delight in sexual awakening, they know they have even more carnal thoughts than their peers.
''Not only did migrainers rate their levels of desire higher, they were aware of the fact that their levels were higher,'' Houle says.
He wanted to study the possible link between libido and migraines because he knew that migraine sufferers have lower levels of the brain chemical serotonin than the general population. The chemical, associated with sexual desire, also responds to certain antidepressants. Those drugs, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, increase the amount of serotonin available in the brain -- and often have sexual side effects including reduced libido.
Knowing from antidepressant research that sexual desire can be manipulated by serotonin levels, researchers reasoned that if heightened levels of serotonin can decrease libido, maybe low levels increase it.
The study has its skeptics."

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Zap to the head can stave off migraine

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19560015-29677,00.html
THE debilitating pain of migraines, the splitting headaches suffered by two million Australians, can be eliminated using a hand-held device that "zaps" the condition as it kicks in.
Patients treated with the experimental device, which is held against the back of the head and emits a magnetic pulse, have reported big improvements.
The pulse has been found to trigger an electric current in neurons in the brain, preventing the initial "electrical storm" from developing into a full-blown migraine.
A team of US scientists, based at Ohio State University Medical Centre, were due to present findings from their research overnight at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society in Los Angeles.
In one study carried out by the group, more than two thirds of patients treated with the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device reported having either no pain or only mild pain two hours after treatment. Less than half of the placebo group reported similar pain levels.
More than 80 per cent did not experience pain when subjected to noise and 64 per cent did not have an adverse reaction to bright light. The majority of the group with the device said they could continue to work with only mild irritation after two hours. Only half of the control group said the same.
The device, which is made by a Californian company called Neuralieve, is designed to interrupt the aura phase of the migraine, the initial period of electrical activity in the brain, before it leads to headaches.
Sufferers of such severe headaches often describe seeing showers of shooting stars, zigzagging lines and flashing lights, and experiencing loss of vision, weakness, tingling or confusion. These initial symptoms are typically followed by an intense throbbing head pain, nausea and vomiting.
About 10 per cent of Australians suffer migraines, which are more than twice as common in women as they are in men, possibly because of hormonal factors. Sufferers experience an average of 13 attacks each year.

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