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Once again it was my privilege to be part of the whiplash and brain
trauma injury seminar. This
particular meeting was held in Chicago.
There were approximately 120 doctors of chiropractic, 9 attorneys,
and 14 medical doctors in attendance. It
is refreshing to know that even though we are multi-disciplined, we crave
the newest knowledge and teachings concerning brain trauma.
This is the only course of this type, which has the intensity and
desire to be the first and most knowledgeable, developed and conducted by
professors, researchers, and in their joint efforts to prepare these
particular courses. Some of the
states that were represented were as follows:
Washington, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wisconsin, New York, Florida, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois.
This is one of what we call 4 modules that will
then take us to a site in southwestern San Diego County, California for
actual live vehicular crashes with human volunteers steering the
automobiles. We are required to participate with active measure reviews and
testing. Those that are
successfully invited to attend are limited to 100 doctors out of
approximately 4000 applicants.
I have been successful in passing 2 years in a
row, and I am attempting the third completion of the above-mentioned course.
The advanced course is the combination of the previous courses.
In the advanced course we must show proficiency and accuracy.
This allows us to enter doctors’, researchers’, and educators’
websites and are then linked to the latest research papers and abstract
critiques.
There is always new material presented and after
the first weekend in April, in particular that Sunday at the last class, my
habit is to review the materials again.
On the following Tuesday morning I was saddened to hear of a young
lady boxer who died in a competition. Regressing
back concerning brain trauma in injured women and men of the same size and
stature and near the same age. Studies
still indicate, and have shown once again, that women at a rate of 50%
suffer more in a trauma. Reasons
are: women have finer muscle
structures, slower response time, wider facet joint spaces (support of
vertebras, cervical spine/neck), and richer blood supply.
Folks, somewhere common sense must prevail and the simplest of
understanding that men and women are different. The news on the TODAY Show stated the young lady passed away
from a brain hemorrhage. The
head cannot stand trauma in multiple doses without producing multi micro
lesions and causing hemorrhages that may lead to short or long-term effects,
or even, as in this case death.
It was my pleasure to be with colleagues with a
type of intensity who despise injury that is not necessary.
Chiropractically
Yours,
Robert
R. Zinser, D.C., C.C.S.P., P.C.
www.zinserchiropractic.com
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