An attempt of early detection of poor outcome after whiplash [PDF]
The main concern with whiplash is that a large proportion of whiplash patients experience disabling symptoms or whiplash associated disorders (WAD) for months if not years following the accident.
Sebastien LAPORTE +10 more
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Whiplash Injuries: An Update [PDF]
Whiplash injuries remain a significant public health problem throughout the developed industrialized world, with significant socioeconomic consequences. Studies looking at the natural history of whiplash injuries have suffered from problems of selection ...
Robert W Teasell, Allan P Shapiro
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Background Chronic whiplash leads to considerable patient suffering and substantial societal costs. There are two competing hypothesis on the etiology of chronic whiplash. The traditional organic hypothesis considers chronic whiplash and related symptoms
Myrtveit Solbjørg +3 more
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Shiitake mushroom-induced flagellate dermatitis: Case report
Shiitake mushroom (SM)-induced flagellate dermatitis follows the ingestion of undercooked SMs. Pathogenesis is thought to be a delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction to lentinan, a heat-sensitive polysaccharide found in SM. Eruption is self-resolving and
Abdullah Aleisa, Natalia Plotnikova
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Personal Experience of Sufferers from Whiplash Injury Compared To the Experience of Doctors Managing the Condition [PDF]
This qualitative study takes an interpretative phenomenological approach to understand the experience of whiplash injury from the different perspectives of patient and doctor.
Rogers, Frances
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Evaluation of an evidence based patient educational booklet for management of whiplash-associated disorders [PDF]
Objectives: This study aimed to develop and evaluate an evidence based educational booklet on whiplash associated disorders. Methods: A comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence produced a set of unambiguous patient centred messages ...
McClune, T. +4 more
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Isometric muscle fatigue of the paravertebral and upper extremity muscles after whiplash injury
BACKGROUND: Whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) result from injury of neck structures that most often occur during traffic accidents as a result of rapid acceleration-deceleration.
Pejana Rastovic +6 more
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Whiplash associated disorders: a review of the literature to guide patient information and advice [PDF]
Objectives: To review the literature and provide an evidence based framework for patient centred information and advice on whiplash associated disorders.
McClune, T. +6 more
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Epidemiology of whiplash [PDF]
Space restrictions prohibit a comprehensive refutation of the uneven treatment of the whiplash literature presented by Ferrari and Russell.1 They fiercely interrogate research that does not support their view, yet uncritically embrace literature favouring their preconceptions. Central to their argument is the assertion that there are different rates of
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Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial (MINT) : design of a randomised controlled trial of treatments for whiplash associated disorders [PDF]
Background: A substantial proportion of patients with whiplash injuries develop chronic symptoms. However, the best treatment of acute injuries to prevent long-term problems is uncertain.
Cooke, MW +57 more
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