• Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 2007
• seemingly unrelated health problems. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2001
• not been shown to improve the pain nor the psychological profiles of people suffering from the effects of their automobile accident. Pain, 1997
• Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2002
• Spine, 2000
• Injury, 2005
• Pain, 1994

"" Orthopedist and one of the world's foremost experts on whiplash, Dr. Dan Murphy. There are 3,000,000 new cases of whiplash in the US every year.

The word “whiplash” is a layperson’s term. Although it is typically associated with Car Crashes, crashes are certainly not the only way to get a whiplash injury. Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD) are typically referred to in the medico-legal literature as “Acceleration / Deceleration” injuries, or "Hyperflexion / Hyperextention" injuries. Many of you have come to understand the hard way they can be incredibly violent, even in "minor" accidents that had very little vehicular damage. With over three million new cases of Acceleration / Deceleration injuries occurring each year, and over 50% of those progressing to at least some degree of unresolved or “chronic” symptoms, it is clear that Whiplash Associated Disorders are taking a massive toll on our country financially, physically, and emotionally. If you are one of the people who suffers with Chronic Pain caused by a “whiplash” type of injury, you already know what we are talking about.

When people think of “whiplash” they tend to think of motor vehicle accidents (MVA’s). Although MVA are probably the single most common cause of the symptoms most frequently associated with and experienced by those suffering with Whiplash Associated Disorders (neck pain, upper back pain, shoulder pain, fuzzy thinking, numbness, tingling and / or weakness of the hands, dizziness, etc), whiplash can occur in many other different ways. There are certain symptoms that we see over and over and over in our clinic (neck pain and headaches, for instance). Whiplash can seemingly cause many other symptoms as well. Some of the most common causes of WAD that we see in our office include sports injuries, work injuries, horse accidents (falls), physically fighting, and almost anything else that has the capacity to “snap” your head suddenly and violently.

Although the most common problems associated with Whiplash Associated Disorders are related to the neck (neck pain, numb hands, headaches), scientific research shows that Acceleration / Deceleration injuries routinely cause all sorts of other injuries as well. We commonly see people whose low back pain started with an MVA. We even see people whose Fibromyalgia was brought on by the emotional and physical stress of an Motor Vehicle Accident.

Even though there are literally scores of scientific studies concluding that Whiplash Associated Disorders are difficult (often to the point of being impossible) to image on x-rays, CT's, or MRI’s, these are still the chief methods the medical community is using to determine whether or not you were injured, and just how serious this injury might be. The problem is, if the vast majority of soft-tissue injuries (injuries to Ligaments, Tendons, Muscles, Fascia, etc) do not image well with advanced imaging techniques, and imaging is the medical community’s chief method of diagnosis; unless you have a herniated disc, you will invariably be treated like nothing is really wrong with you. Stop and think for a moment about how problematic that fascia, arguably the single most pain-sensitive tissue in your entire body, will not show up on any tests, including an MRI.

When you are taken the the ER, you will have some tests run and the doctor will look at you and say, “Well it is a good thing Mrs. Smith, nothing is broken. Here are a couple of prescriptions for any pain and/or inflammation you may have from now until you see your family doctor tomorrow. In the mean time, wear this collar and use a warm pack when needed." Is this good advice? Sure it is, if you own a medical clinic. Followthis advice and you are certain to become a lifetime Arthritic. The truth is, when it comes to the evaluation and treatment of injuries to fascia and other elastic, collagen-based connective tissues, all of our hi-tech equipment with its bells and whistles is simply not helping diagnose or help most injured people. Our DIGITAL MOTION X RAY (DMX) has helped many patients in your same shoes.We encourage you to visit our website dmxofwisconsin for further information.

WARNING WARNING WARNING

If the only treatment you receive for your injury is palliative (using drugs to cover symptoms without ever addressing the underlying tissue injury that is causing those symptoms), then any relief you achieve is temporary at best! The end product of this process will be a vicious cycle of dysfunction, degeneration, and chronic pain!

Many of you reading this and suffering with Whiplash Associated Disorders do not have a history of MVAs. It is important that you understand that a MVA is certainly not the only way that people end up with WAD. It is absolutely critical that anyone who thinks that they might be suffering the effects of a whiplash-like injury, learn a little bit about COLLAGEN-BASED, ELASTIC CONNECTIVE TISSUES. Knowledge is power. You will either educate yourself or be taken advantage of and used as a guinea pig for the latest drugs and procedures!

Your short drive to work was no different than any other day, until you began slowing down for the school bus stopping in front of you. Just as you're coming to a complete stop, CRASH; your world explodes as someone plows into your car from behind, knocking you into the bus. Turns out the kid driving the full-sized crew cab pickup truck that hit you was texting, and never even hit his brakes. You're having a hard time remembering exactly what happened. You remember a flash of light and your head being slammed backwards over the top of your headrest. You vaguely recall that your head rocketed forward as you hit the bus, almost hitting the windshield. You step out of your vehicle to take a look at the situation. There is no blood and in fact, you don't even have a bruise to show from the incident. However, by the time the State Troopers arrive to access the accident, you not only have a neck pain unlike anything you have ever felt before, you have a banging headache as well. You're having trouble putting the pieces in order for them. They ask if you need an ambulance, but you do not want to go to the Emergency Room. But a few weeks later, you're still having trouble with your memory. Work is not going well because on top of the pain and exhaustion, everything seems fuzzy, foggy, and hazy. Who would have thought that whiplash could cause these sorts of symptoms, particularly without any obvious injuries?

Whiplash Injuries are particularly dangerous because they are a common cause of MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury). MTBI results from the brain bouncing off the inside of the skull during the hyperextension / hyperflexion of the neck. As you can imagine, this damages / destroys nerve cells. Depending on which part of the brain is injured, a person might have problems in some of the following areas:

• Walking / Moving
• Balance
• Coordination
• Strength / Endurance
• Your Ability to Communicate
• Your Ability to Understand
• Your Ability to Think
• Memory
• Strange or Unexplainable Pain Patterns or Symptoms
• Altered Psychological Profiles

Because these symptoms are often subtle, not very specific, and do not show up on standard medical tests such as x-rays or MRI's, it’s common for patients with MTBI not to complain about them, at least initially. For many people it can be embarrassing trying to explain to the chiropractor or doctor about these vague and difficult-to-describe symptoms. Many patients are very relieved to find out that there is a physiological reason that they feel the way they do, and that it is not "all in their head". The good news is that with the correct kind of care, most of the patients who are struggling with these injuries will recover within a year's time. But unfortunately, not all do. It is for this group of people that the term MTBI or "Post Concussive Syndrome" is used. For more information about these sorts of injuries ask any one of the doctors here at Breidenbach Chiropractic.

The “old” model of whiplash said that WAD was simply caused by stretched or torn tissue, which was solely the result of the head being jerked around upon impact. That model simply did not explain the injuries being reported in low-speed collisions (15 mph and under). The most current whiplash models shows that a wave is “shot” through the spine upon impact (similar to the wave you create to move the garden hose a couple of feet to the left). This wave, which occurs in a fraction of a second, can tear both connective tissue and nerve tissue microscopically.It also momentarily induces a tremendous amount of pressure in the smallest blood vessels (capillaries) which is known as “blood hammer”. Blood Hammer, Fascial Tearing, and subsequent Neurological Damage, helps to explain some of these "bizarre and unrelated symptoms" that are almost always evident in those who have suffered from whiplash injuries due to MVA's.

Different parts of the human body have different inertial masses. The mechanism of injury from a rear-end motor vehicle collision, is, as a rule, an inertial injury. This means the injury does not occur as a consequence of direct contact of vehicle parts to the patient’s body; rather, injury occurs as a consequence of different inertial masses moving independently from one another." Dr. Daniel Murphy, Board Certified Orthopedist and Leading Expert in Whiplash Diagnosis and Treatment

NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION:
In Principia, Newton laid out his three Laws of Motion. These laws are able to explain whiplash and the subsequent injury that follows better than anything else we have seen so far. For understanding whiplash injuries and their relationship to vehicle damage, Newton's first law is the most important; The Law of Inertia.

Newton's First Law: Objects at rest remain at rest unless they are acted on by an outside force. Likewise, objects in motion, stay in motion unless they are acted on by an outside force. Remember this - whiplash injuries occur because different parts of your body can and will have different inertias, sometimes very different inertias.

When your vehicle was struck from behind, it shot forward. When you were hit, there was a huge instantaneous change in momentum. In a fraction of a second, your vehicle was accelerated from zero to over 50 mph.

Let's look at this event in frame-by-frame fashion.

As your vehicle shot forward, so did your torso that was sitting in the seat. Here is the precise point where whiplash occurs. As your body was accelerated forward, your head (at least in the initial milliseconds) did not move. The head is much smaller (and lighter) than your torso, and attached by a thin column of muscles, tissues, and tiny vertebrate we call the neck or Cervical Spine. Because of the weight difference between the head and the body, as well as the fact that the connector between them (the neck) is stretchy and relatively thin; the head has a completely different inertia than the body. This was magnified by the fact that the seat back kept your torso from moving very far backwards, but did nothing to stop your neck, and unfortunately, your head restraint was not adjusted to the proper height. In other words, your body was essentially driven out from under your head, then a fraction of a second later, your head not only caught up with your body, it actually accelerated to a greater velocity than your body, and overshot it as your head slammed forward.

Let's review: As the vehicle, the seat, and your body rocketed forward with the explosive energy and momentum shift from the impact, your head remained stationary for a split second. Your body was essentially driven out from under your head, making it appear that your head slammed backwards. As your head's momentum began catch up to that of your body, the tissues in your neck began to stretch and deform. Unfortunately, when the force of the accident is greater than the forces holding your tissues together, these tissues begin to tear, at least on a MICROSCOPIC BASIS (remember, most of the time this tearing will not show up on an MRI). The result was a whiplash injury, an inertial injury to the SPINAL LIGAMENTS, SPINAL DISCS, FASCIA, TENDONS, and other soft tissues of the neck and upper back. In fact, there are studies showing that even though they are too small to be effectively imaged with current MRI technology, there are often (usually) microscopic fractures of the FACET JOINTS present with intense whiplash injuries. Frequently, there is also sub-clinical brain injury as well.

Interestingly enough, one of the things that make muscles contract with greater intensity is to maximally stretch them. When the neck is stretched to such a great degree, it's muscles contract to an equally intense degree. When coupled with the acceleration and subsequent deceleration of the vehicle, this causes the neck to slam forward causing still more tissue tearing in the neck and upper back. And the most important thing to grasp is that your neck and head never hit anything throughout the entire process. The injury to the neck itself (which happened in a matter of milliseconds) occurred because of a huge momentary shift in momentum, energy, and inertia between your body and your head, just like what you see in "Shaken Baby Syndrome".

Following an accident you have several spinal x-rays and a CT of your neck in the Emergency room. Everything is negative. The ER doctor comes in, examines you, and has you move a bit. He then you know "everything checked out fine, you may be sore so get the prescriptions filled to help you through any pain, and call your doctor in the morning. You'll be just fine."

But that's just it. You saw your doctor, and as the weeks go by, you're not fine. Far from it. You are in pain, and it's getting worse. But you have nothing to show for it, no borken bones, no bruises, cuts or scratches. There is nothing that would alert anyone (let alone a doctor who is not up on the most current research) that you are in pain, and it's getting worse. What's going on here? You want answers!

In 1964, the prestigious medical journal, American Journal of Orthopedics revealed a still well-concealed fact, that there is no relationship between the damage done to the vehicle and the amount of injury to the vehicle's occupants. Since that time, the medical and scientific communities have proved this fact over and over again via research. It is a fact that we have heard verified over and over again by the Law Enforcement Officers and Paramedics that we adjust on a regular basis. Although most of the time, Insurance Companies and the Attorneys that represent them would have you believe just the opposite (there was not enough vehicle damage to have an injury), it's just not true.

Decades worth of scientific studies tell us that the severity of the vehicle damage cannot predict:

• If patients will suffer whiplash injuries.
• How severe those injuries might be.
• How long it will take to effectively treat / heal the injury or whether they will ever really heal at all.
• Whether or not the injured party will end up with Chronic Pain and / or Arthritis as a direct result of the accident.

Dozens upon dozens of studies on Motor Vehicle Accidents have shown that vehicles that do not crumple upon impact will be accelerated with a far greater force and momentum. The more / faster that your vehicle is accelerated upon impact, the greater the inertial stresses to the neck and upper back. This is why today's vehicles are made with "crumple zones". You are much better off if the force of impact is absorbed by vehicular deformation, than by deformation of your body, particularly the soft tissues and discs of your neck. The larger the inertial stresses to the neck and upper back, the greater the damage to the soft tissues of the cervical spine / neck.

So, it stands to reason that harder impacts and greater amounts of vehicle damage lead to greater amounts of bodily injury. Not only is this not true, but most of the medical research on whiplash injuries today are being done on the effects of low speed impacts (those under 15 mph). Here are a few of the Scientific / Medical / Legal profession's journals saying that there is NO RELATIONSHIP between the amount of vehicular damage and the amount of injury to the vehicle's occupants.

• The Spine, 1982

• Orthopedic Clinics of North America,

• Society of Automotive Engineers, 1990

• Injury,

• Trial Talk,

• Injury,

• American Journal of Pain Management, 1994

• Society of Automotive Engineers,

• Society of Automotive Engineers,

• Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,

• Journal Of Whiplash & Related Disorders,

• Spine,

• Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry,

• Spine,

• Whiplash Injuries,

One of the problems, however, with whiplash injuries is that they frequently end up causing DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS. This has to do with the fact that these inertial injuries damage tissues in ways that cannot be imaged using even the most advanced technologies. Because most doctors are not up on current whiplash research, and feel you are looking for a big settlement, they frequently don't believe you. However, these injuries cause SCAR TISSUE that causes abnormal joint motion over time. This leads to arthritis so frequently, that we can often predict with a great deal of accuracy when a person's injury occurred, just by looking at a current x-ray of their neck.

• Thus, it appeared that the injury had started the slow process of disc degeneration." The Cervical Spine Research Society, 1989
• The Cervical Spine Research Society, 1989
• The Journal of Orthopedic Medicine, 1997

• British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1983; The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 1987; Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 1988; Spine, 1994; British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1996
• European Spine Journal, 2004

WAD is difficult to properly diagnose or evaluate using standard medical tests. X-rays do not ever show soft connective tissues, and dozens of studies show that MRIs, contrary to popular belief, DO A POOR JOB of imaging injured soft tissues. This is why you might feel like you are “dying”, but all of the tests are negative. People go through this experience over and over. They are then sent home from the E.R. or doctor’s office with pain killers, muscle-relaxers, and anti-inflammation drugs which can actually cause injured tissue to heal approximately 1/3 weaker and less elastic than it otherwise would, and told that in time it will heal. Just like a broken arm that is cocked off at a funny angle but never set or put in a cast; it will heal, It just won’t heal the right way or with the proper amount of joint function / motion.

So just how should a problem like this be addressed? The key to a functional recovery is controlled motion. CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS, specific stretches, and strengthening exercises are the number one way to accomplish this! Because FASCIAL ADHESIONS are usually part of the whiplash equation, you will probably need to undergo some form of Tissue Remodeling as well. Restoring movement, function, and strength (both to individual joints or vertebrate, and to the spine or limb as a whole) is the only proven method that is effective in truly reducing the symptoms of whiplash. Contrary to popular belief, using drugs to simply cover symptoms, is never a good option.

If the only treatment you receive for your whiplash injury is palliative (meaning covering symptoms with drugs, without addressing the underlying cause of those symptoms), then any relief achieved is temporary, and the end product of this process will likely be dysfunction, degeneration, and chronic pain!

Possibly consider getting a new doctor? As you have already read, whiplash is frequently a "clinical" diagnosis. This simply means that it is not going to show up well on standard imaging tests such as x-rays, CT, and even MRI. If your doctor is not up on the most current whiplash research, you lose in more ways than one. Let me show you the results of one study that wanted to determine if the effects of whiplash were real ("organic") or in the patient's head ("psychometric"). By the way, this study comes from a 1997 issue of one of the planet's most prestigious medical journals, The Journal of Orthopedic Medicine. They compared a large control group to a large whiplash group, ten years after the accident. Not only does this give us a long-term look at the effects of whiplash, it also removes the potential effects of litigation on the research as any legal issues would have been long settled.

Notice in this Flexion / Extension X-ray that there is SPINAL DEGENERATION occurring at the level of the C5-C6 Spinal Disc. This means that either this X-ray is being taken years (maybe decades) after an injury, or that this person had pre-existing degeneration (bone spurs, thin discs, and calcium deposits) prior to this latest injury. Either way, the individual being X-rayed had a Flexion / Extension injury of some sort probably 20 years ago or so. How can we predict this. Although there is a certain degree of "guesswork" that goes into knowing this, we know that DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS occurs due to loss of joint motion over time, and that whiplash tends to strike worst at C5-C6.

For people injured in Automobile Accidents, falls, Horse Accidents, Motorcycle Crashes, or any number of other ways that people end up with "Whiplash Injuries", this is a commonly-asked question. But it's also a commonly asked question for those whose soft tissue injury was not traumatic, but was due to chronic, repeated, sub-maximal loading. It's more than understandable. No matter how the injury occurred or what it is, everyone wants to know how long it is going to take to get better. Just keep in mind that healing takes time. You will often hear "6-8 weeks", this is only partially true. If you will notice the chart below, you can see that after about 3-4 weeks, the only thing going on is "Maturation and Remodeling".

Canadian Family Physician. More recent studies showing these longer healing times include a 1994 issue of the journal Pain, a 1994 issue of the journalSpine, and a 2005 issue of the medical journal Injury. Spine said that appropriately treated whiplash patients took an average time of over seven months to heal. This means that for every person who took 4-6 weeks to heal from their injuries, someone else is taking well over a year.

• STAGE I (Inflammatory Phase): This phase lasts from 12-72 hours, and is characterized by a release of inflammatory chemicals by injured cells. When cells are injured and die, they rupture and release their contents into the extra cellular fluid / Inflammation. These “Inflammatory Chemicals” that are released from ruptured cells are a necessary and vital component of the healing process. However, in excessive amounts, they can cause a great deal of pain. They also promote excessive microscopic scarring. Be aware that if you visit your doctor for a soft tissue injury, you will be given anti-inflammatory medications. These have serious side-effects on the heart, liver, kidneys, etc. The fact that this class of drug has been scientifically proven to cause injured connective tissues to heal significantly weaker and with less elasticity than they otherwise would. Nowhere is this more true that CORTICOSTEROIDS. Do a quick search of the Medico-Scientific Literature on Corticosteroids and soft tissue injuries. You will see over and over again that they are detrimental to the healing process and should play no part in the treatment of these injuries.

• STAGE II (Passive Congestion): This phase begins by the 2nd to 4th day, we begin to see swelling (sometimes we do not see it, because it is not on the body’s surface). Remember; “inflammation” is not synonymous with swelling. Inflammatory Chemicals released by dying cells attract the fluid that causes swelling. This is why using cold therapy / ice to control both inflammation and swelling is such an important part of the healing process, particularly in its earliest stages. However, the best method for moving out this "Congestive Swelling" is through controlled motion if possible. Your medical doctor may tell you to use heat during these initial two phases of soft tissue healing; don't do it. Use ICE to control the inflammation!

• STAGE III (Regeneration & Repair Phase): The Repair Phase is where new collagen fibers are made by fibroblasts. The body then uses these collagen fibers as a sort of soft tissue “patch”. In the body, this collagen patch / scar tissue tends to be different than the tissue around it in a number of ways. Scar Tissue is weaker, less elastic, MUCH MORE PAIN SENSITIVE, has SEVERLY DIMINISHED PROPRIOCEPTIVE ABILITIES, etc). Be aware that the Repair Phase of tissue healing only lasts about 6 weeks, with the majority being completed in half that time. WARNING: This 3rd stage of healing is where many of the so-called “experts” want you to believe the process of Tissue Healing & Repair ends. Again; this phase is finished within a month of injury.

• STAGE IV (Maturation / Remodeling Phase): Not only is it the longest, but the Remodeling Phase is by far the most critical of thefour stages of Connective Tissue healing. Yet it is the phase that most often gets overlooked. The most current research shows that in case of serious Connective Tissue Injury, the Remodeling Phase can last up to two years; making the old “6-8 weeks” sound ridiculous. The Remodeling Phase is characterized by a “realignment” (remodeling) of the individual fibers that make up the injured tissue (the collagen “patch” that we call Scar Tissue). What is interesting is that each study that comes out on this topic, seems to be saying that this phase of healing lasts longer than what the study that came out before it said. This is a good thing. However, keep in mind that if you have not improved within 90 days after injury, standard forms of treatment become much less likely to help you. Phase IV can also be risky because although a person's pain may have dissipated, the injury itself has not completely healed and is vulnerable to re-injury.

As Controlled Loading / Tensile Loading is applied to the healing tissues via CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS, TISSUE REMODELING, STRETCHING and strengthening exercises, PROPRIOCEPTIVE RE-EDUCATION, massage therapy, TRIGGER POINT THERAPY, PNF, etc; the individual tissue fibers move from a more random, tangled, and twisted wad of unorganized collagen fibrils; to a tissue that is much more organized, parallel, and orderly as far as its microscopic configuration is concerned. Again, this takes time. Although our Scar Tissue Remodeling Therapy can frequently bring immediate relief, it is obvious from the medical literature that there is a healing processes that cannot be bypassed. Because numerous Scientific Studies have proved Cold Laser Therapy to be effective in regenerating Collagen, we highly recommend it for our more seriously injured patients as well.

Everyone has heard the saying that is still used by doctors, "You would have been better off to break the bone than to tear the ligaments".. Knowing what we know about the healing of the Collagen-Based, Elastic Connective Tissues; this statement makes a lot of sense! Soft tissues heal much slower than other tissues (including bones). Do not let anyone try and convince you otherwise! This is why following the complete stretching and strengthening protocol that goes hand-in-hand with our “Tissue Remodeling” treatment, is the one and only way that it will work properly over the long haul. By the way, we have dealt extensively with the fact that whiplash injuries heal best with forms of therapy that employ controlled motion such as does chiropractic. Now I want to explore what the scientific literature says about using medications for whiplash injuries.

In 2007, the renowned pain researcher Dr. Sota Omoigui, published an article in the medical journal Medical Hypothesis called, "The biochemical origin of pain: The origin of all pain is inflammation and the inflammatory response". In it, he showed the relationship between pain, inflammation, and fibrosis / Scar Tissue. Most people tend to think of Inflammation as a "local" phenomenon. You know; sprain an ankle, and it swells, sometimes a lot. But it is critical to remember that the terms "swelling" and "inflammation" are in no ways synonymous. When cells of soft tissues are seriously injured (like in Whiplash Injuries), they die. These dead then rupture their contents into the surrounding extra-cellular fluid. The cells contain a group of chemicals that we collectively refer to as "Inflammation", which in small amounts, are a normal part of the Immune System. Their local presence is indicated by five well known signs and symptoms. The classical names for the various signs of Local Inflammation come from Latin and include:

• Dolar (Pain)
• Calor (Heat)
• Rubor (Redness)
• Tumor (Swelling)---The chemicals we collectively call "inflammation" are not synonymous with swelling, but they can attract swelling.
• Functio Laesa (Loss of Function)

Although these chemicals can remain in a local area (you stub your toe, the toe gets red and inflamed), they can invade the blood stream and have a systemic (whole body) effect as well. But inflammation does not end there. These immune system chemicals that we refer to collectively as "inflammation" (prostaglandins, leukotrienes, thromboxanes, cytokines, chemokines, certain enzymes, kinnins, histamines, eicosanoids, substance P, and dozens of others) are being touted by the medical community as the primary cause of a whole host of physical ailments, when there are too many of them in the body. Some of the other problems that Inflammation is known to cause includes;

• Disc Injuries, Slipped Disc, Disc Herniation, and Disc Rupture
• Heart Disease and virtually all forms of Cardiovascular Problems
• Skin conditions including Eczema and Psoriasis
• Arthritis & Fibromyalgia
• Asthma
• ADD, ADHD, Depression, and various forms of Dementia
• Neurological Conditions
• Female Issues
• Cancer
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease / Leaky Gut Syndrome
• Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Hypoglycemia, and other Blood Sugar Regulation Problems
• Obesity

This is an incredible list however, simply put; inflammation causes pain, ill health, and eventually, death. But this list is not the thrust of this section. What we want you to understand is the intimate way that inflammation is related to Scar Tissue, Adhesion, and Fibrosis.

Born in 1904, Dr. James Cyriax, a Cambridge-educated M.D. widely known as the "The Einstein of Physical Medicine" wrote his Magnum Opus, Orthopaedic Medicine, Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Lesions, in 1982 shortly before he passed away. Dr. Cyriax is still considered one of the brilliant pioneers of soft tissue research. One of Dr. Cyriax groundbreaking discoveries is that Scar Tissue / Fibrosis can and will generate an Inflammatory Response long after the Fourth stage of Healing Maturation & Remodeling is over. Pay attention to what Cyriax wrote over three decades ago.

Why would what Dr. Cyriax refers to as "normal mechanical stresses" cause an "indefinite period" of inflammation? Scar Tissue and Fibrosis are so dramatically different from normal tissue. One of the most obvious ways that this can be seen is by looking at any good Pathology Textbook. Scar Tissue and Fibrosis is far weaker and much less elastic than normal Connective Tissue. What does this mean? Only that it is easily re-injured. This starts the whole vicious cycle over again. Injury ----> Inflammation ---> Pain ---> Fibrosis & Scar Tissue Formation ---> Re-injury ---> Repeat indefinitely. Just remember that the end result of this cycle is DEGENERATION of the affected bones and spinal discs.