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In
my last 34 years of chiropractic practice, there have been some debatable
terms used in medical and chiropractic history as well as plaintiff and
defense attorney’s histories. The
buzzword in post traumatic injury, in trying to discount the seriousness of
the patient’s injuries, is defining them as soft tissue injuries. Defense attorneys embrace this expression because for some
magical reasoning it’s meant to belittle the injury. In the past, I’ve been in depositions where the term soft
tissue prevailed. Now no one
really knows what it means, and there is no written explanation that is
satisfactory. It has become an
age-old smoke screen.
Soft
tissue injuries have been discussed in most depositions.
The following questions come with answers as flimsy as the questions:
Would a stick in your soft eye be serious, or a heart attack being somewhat
soft tissue, be serious? I’m
often told, “Now surely Dr. Zinser you can’t compare a minor whiplash
with those types of injury or disease.” One then should ask the question what is minor whiplash, if
there is such a thing, when the patient experiences, migraines, vertigo
(dizziness), memory loss, dementia, minute tumors, orchestrate strokes,
blood clotting, micro hemorrhages, depression, etc.
Most females are at greater risk than average males by approximately
30%. Dr. Yoganadan recently
discovered this in research work done at the University of Wisconsin.
He has discovered that the facets posterior to the cervical spine are
structurally weaker in females by 30% compared to males.
There is also a greater risk of serious injury to senior citizens by
40%.
Good
time for a chuckle. I was asked
by one attorney, “Doc, do you know when an attorney is lying?”
Answer – AS SOON AS HE OPENS HIS MOUTH.
With all things equal, how many chiropractors does it take to screw
in a lightbulb? Answer – JUST ONE, BUT IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL VISITS.
Folks
always try to remember the seriousness of the phrase “Don’t become the
victim twice.” If your
attorney, for or against you, starts throwing around minor soft tissue,
pre-existing condition, standard and customary, or reasonable and necessary,
these are the rotten apples of the good bushel.
So truly beware of language that belittles your health and human
rights. Your creator gave these privileges of health to you and no man has
the right to belittle your health importance by useless verbiage that
carries no weight, unless your healthcare provider is uninformed or just
doesn’t care.
Chiropractically
Yours,
Robert
R. Zinser, D.C., C.C.S.P., P.C.
www.zinserchiropractic.com
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