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Young Sacramento Victim of Tragic Bicycle Accident  The 9-year-old child of a man killed in a tragic Sacramento bicycling accident returned home to his mother…

Trauma Systems, Triage and Transport A trauma system is an organized approach to handling injured patients that involve’s principles of triage and transport, and works…

Epidemiology of Trauma According to the principles of medicine, trauma is a “disease” rather than an injury and, as such, is no different from malaria,…

Hit-and-run Bicycle Fatality A 40-year-old Rio Linda man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Sunday, October 4, 2015, according to California Highway…

What is Kinematics? Kinematics comes from the Greek word “kuma” or “kumat”, which means movement. It is the study of movement without regard to the…

Pelvic Fractures  Pelvic Fractures  occur more commonly in males who are likely to become injured in high impact crashes. Fractures of the pelvis can happen in…

Traumatic Cardiac Contusions     Traumatic cardiac contusions can happen after blunt trauma at high velocities such as a motor vehicle accident in which the…

Beware of Shoulder Edge Drop Off I would like to warn you of the dangers of our highway shoulders. These highway shoulders are more commonly…

Diagnosis and Treatment of Facet Joint Injuries Facet Joint injuries are injuries to the small supporting joints in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine.  They…

Deteriorating highway shoulders can cause auto accidents with personal injuries and wrongful deaths on our roadways. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) says about 11,000 people…

What to do after a car accident? You’re on the way to work, on a Monday morning, listening to the new KZAP station and suddenly,…

  Recently a neighbor informed me that he was experiencing loss of hearing and tinnitus. Initially, I assumed this was age-related. He went on to…

So, your back’s been hurting. You saw your doctor. He sent you to get a MRI and now you have the report. Unfortunately, the report…

There is a high incidence of crashes at intersections, which represent areas where two or more roads intersect with one another. Cars must do things…

A recent  study looked at variations in the motor vehicle injuries and deaths in a car crash by body mass index (BMI) and vehicle type. …

  In nonfatal automobile accidents lower extremity injuries are common. Bumper stiffness, bumper profile height and spoiler stiffness have an impact on the lateral bending…